NASHVILLE - Tennessee lawmakers return to the state Capitol this week for their 2022 session with an agenda that includes the mandatory once-a-decade task of redrawing of state legislative and congressional district lines as well as a planned push by Republican Gov. Bill Lee to overhaul the state's 30-year-old funding formula for public K-12 education.
As Tennessee's COVID-19 case numbers surge to new heights because of the highly contagious omicron variant, Gov. Bill Lee said Tuesday he sees no current need to declare a health emergency to trigger mask mandates because, he argued, infections are not translating to a wave of hospitalizations.
Despite having no presidential or U.S. Senate contests on Tennessee's 2022 election calendar, voters will have plenty of reasons to go vote this spring, summer and fall.
State law banning local restrictions has been put on hold, but local officials say now is not the time
Tennessee homeowners facing bankruptcy will have better financial protection from creditors under a new state law taking effect New Year's Day that raises the state's homestead exemption for the first time in nearly a half-century.
Tennessee officials are putting $1.35 billion of the state's $3.9 billion pot of federal American Rescue Plan Act funds on the table in the form of local infrastructure grants in hopes of persuading towns, cities and counties to invest millions of their own ARP dollars for drinking water, wastewater and stormwater improvements.
NASHVILLE - Tennessee Republicans have high hopes the city of Nashville can win a bid to host their party's national convention here in 2024.
Citing his experience and commitment to the community, former Hamilton County Commissioner Joe Graham of Lookout Valley has announced he is running to represent the commission's new District 11 in the 2022 elections.
Athens, Tennessee, businessman and farmer Dennis Beavers, who worked on Republican Donald Trump's 2016 presidential campaign and went on to serve as the executive director of the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Farms Services Agency in Tennessee, said he is running for the state Senate in District 11.
Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee has lost ground with voters since May, according to a new Vanderbilt University poll released Thursday that suggests the 10-point drop may be linked to the Republican governor's signing into law a package of laws reining in public health measures amid the COVID-19 pandemic, which has killed more than 17,000 Tennesseans.
