Tennessee Commerce and Insurance Commissioner Hodgen Mainda on Tuesday submitted his letter of resignation to Gov. Bill Lee on Tuesday, a little over a year after the former Chattanooga-based EPB vice president took the post.
An unforced error by Republican Sen. Todd Gardenhire regarding "fried chicken," obesity and a lack of healthy food availability in East Chattanooga has brought drama and national attention to the white lawmaker's Nov. 3 Senate District 10 contest against Democratic challenger Glenn Scruggs, a Black assistant police chief in Chattanooga.
Tennesseans and Georgians continued casting record numbers of early votes in the Nov. 3 presidential election last week.
NASHVILLE - Spending in the Tennessee Senate District 10 battle between incumbent Republican Sen. Todd Gardenhire and Democratic challenger Glenn Scruggs hit the $281,000 mark on Sept. 30, making it the second costliest state Senate contest in the state's Nov. 3, 2020, general election.
With coronavirus cases spiking in rural areas of Tennessee, Gov. Bill Lee's administration announced Wednesday that officials are restarting free drive-thru COVID-19 testing sites this Saturday, beginning in three counties, among them Grundy County.
Bill Lee seeks to convince county mayors, as new ads launch to persuade Tennesseans
More than 725,000 Tennesseans cast ballots last week during the state's first four days of early voting in the Nov. 3 general election, a record-busting 42% jump over 2016 as voters continued to line up at polling stations as well as hit mail boxes with absentee mail-in ballots.
U.S. Senate Health Committee Chairman Lamar Alexander, R-Tennessee, defended Dr. Anthony Fauci on Monday following news accounts that President Donald Trump called Fauci a "disaster" and said Americans have tired of the coronavirus during a call with campaign staffers.
Tennessee and Georgia voters shattered early voting records during the first days of the Nov. 3 general election as they eagerly flooded in-person voting sites or cast absentee-by-mail ballots in high-stakes contests for the presidency, Congress and state legislative seats.
The head of a Connecticut-based health data firm is defending the company's work that found at least $17.58 million in medical overcharges paid to providers such as doctors through the insurance plan that covers Tennessee's state employees.
