Cleveland, Tennessee, railroad crossing to benefit from $27.48 million upgrade
The city of Cleveland, Tennessee, will receive up to $27.48 million in federal funding for a flyover bridge to allow motorists to avoid stopping at a railroad crossing.
Political notebook: Steve Bannon criticizes U.S. Rep. Greene, while Gov. Lee seeks to fend off criticism over 3rd grade retention law
Republican U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia has come under fire from a onetime ally, Steve Bannon, for her support of House Speaker Kevin McCarthy's debt-ceiling agreement with President Joe Biden.
Tennessee Gov. Lee to continue pressing bill to remove guns from people deemed by court to be threat
Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee said Thursday he still intends to present legislation to fellow Republicans to temporarily remove firearms from mentally ill people deemed by a judge to be a threat in spite of warnings a day earlier by House Speaker Cameron Sexton that a red flag law such as that cannot pass the GOP-dominated General Assembly.
Tennessee House Speaker Sexton says he’s prepared to testify in trial of former speaker, aide
Tennessee House Speaker Cameron Sexton said he is prepared to testify if called in the expected Oct. 3 federal public corruption trial of his predecessor, Glen Casada, and Casada's then-chief of staff, Cade Cothren.
Fleischmann calls debt ceiling deal a ‘step in the right direction’
U.S. Rep. Chuck Fleischmann, a subcommittee chairman on the Appropriations Committee and the only Tennessee congressional member on the panel, is praising the debt ceiling agreement as "a step in the right direction to get our fiscal house in order."
State Rep. Johnson ‘seriously’ weighing 2024 challenge to U.S. Sen. Blackburn
Conservative political firebrand meets progressive political firebrand?
Comptroller report questions spending by former Tennessee Association of Chiefs of Police director
A state comptroller's investigation of the Tennessee Association of Chiefs of Police has unearthed nearly $64,000 in what officials called "questionable" credit card purchases as well a potential conflict of interest involving the nonprofit group's then-executive director.
Federal lawsuit challenges Tennessee ban on insurance coverage for state employees’ transgender treatments
Two transgender women, one of them a University of Tennessee at Chattanooga employee, filed a suit Thursday in U.S. District Court in Nashville charging they were denied "essential medical coverage" for gender-affirming care through the state's health plan.
Republican lawmaker calls Tennessee Gov. Lee’s special session on gun laws a ‘counter-productive publicity stunt’
A freshman Tennessee Republican House member and two GOP colleagues urged Gov. Bill Lee on Wednesday to abandon his plans to call an Aug. 21 special session on state gun laws and public safety following the mass shooting in March at a private Nashville school that left three children and three adults dead.
Amount of Tennessee road litter has fallen 12% since 2016, study says
Volunteer State residents of a certain age may well remember the state Department of Transportation's 1976 TV ad "Tennessee Trash."
