The future of the Chattanooga conservative group Hamilton Flourishing is in doubt with its president, Doug Daugherty, alleging its funding was cut off at the instigation of former U.S. Sen. Bob Corker.
Hamilton County Republicans' May 3 mayoral primary was the county's most expensive contest ever for the top executive post with reported expenditures by the three candidates clocking in just shy of $1.55 million.
Hamilton County school board members are poised to take up a resolution Thursday that condemns conservative Hillsdale College President Larry Arnn for his statements before a Tennessee group last month disparaging public school teachers while also condemning Gov. Bill Lee's "failure" to criticize Arnn while attending the same closed-door event.
U.S. Sen. Bill Hagerty's former spokesman departed his job a day before his video testimony about then-President Donald Trump and the events of Jan. 6, 2021, was played before the U.S. House's Jan. 6 committee investigating the attack on the Capitol.
NASHVILLE - Prominent political strategist John "Chip" Saltsman has been named to serve on the Tennessee Fish and Wildlife Commission, filling a vacancy left by Jim Ripley, an attorney who resigned the post after winning a judicial race.
Three Tennessee Democrats vying for their party's nomination to take on Republican Gov. Bill Lee this fall have so far spent nearly $780,000 in their efforts to win the Aug. 4 primary, in which early voting begins Friday across the state.
The chairman of a powerful Tennessee House education panel says "any hope" that Hillsdale College will be operating charter schools here with state funding has "been shattered" among his colleagues as a result of the college president, Larry Arnn, making denigrating comments about public school teachers last month.
Two Tennessee Democrats vying to become their party's gubernatorial nominee in the Aug. 4 primary say Republican Gov. Bill Lee's refusal to disavow an education adviser's mocking of teachers and their training programs is only the latest example of the governor's failure to lead.
Citing significant concerns, President Joe Biden's administration has told state TennCare officials it wants Tennessee to make several major changes to the state's Medicaid block grant waiver program that provides health care to 1.6 million low-income children, pregnant women, mothers and disabled Tennesseans.
Gov. Bill Lee on Wednesday refused to repudiate remarks by a conservative ally who on a secretly recorded video said teachers are "trained in the dumbest parts of the dumbest colleges."
