State Rep. Yusuf Hakeem, D-Chattanooga, and some fellow Black Democrats are calling for more transparency from the Republican-led Hamilton County Commission as officials begin work on the once-a-decade redrawing of political boundaries for commission and school board districts to reflect population changes.
Hamilton County Health Department officials say they will begin administering Pfizer COVID-19 booster shots Monday.
State Rep. Yusuf Hakeem, D-Chattanooga, has vowed to return next year with his effort to provide more Black history instruction to Tennessee public school students after the bill was omitted from a summer education study committee.
State Rep. Yusuf Hakeem, D-Chattanooga, is questioning why House Republicans aren't honoring what he views as their commitment to return to a Black history bill he sponsored that GOP lawmakers in April set aside for summer study.
As he prepares to make the first full-fledged overhaul to Tennessee license tags in nearly 16 years, Gov. Bill Lee is asking residents to "rate the plates" of his administration's four proposed redesigns.
Developers who have adapted historic buildings in Chattanooga and Cleveland, Tennessee, for modern uses have each been awarded $300,000 in state grants under a new $4.8 million program established by state lawmakers earlier this year to encourage the preservation and continued use of such properties.
Saying the nation pledged 20 years ago that "we would never forget" the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the country, U.S. Sen. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., believes Congress needs to stand by that promise by making the date a legal public holiday.
Tennessee lawmakers are eyeing modest tweaks to the state's privatized bail bond system, where lawsuits and data show poorer people charged even with nonviolent crimes often can't afford to get out of jail before their cases are heard - despite a justice system that allows for pre-trial release of detainees presumed innocent after being assessed for risk.
Republican Greg Vital of Georgetown was elected Tuesday as Tennessee House District 29's new representative at the state Capitol in the special election held in Hamilton County.
Interested voters in Tennessee House District 29 will head to the polls Tuesday in the Hamilton County contest in which Republican Greg Vital and Democrat DeAngelo Jelks have collectively spent nearly $133,000 trying to generate interest in the special election.
