Tennessee tax revenue collections in May fell nearly $200 million, or more than 15.8% below a year ago, as the coronavirus pandemic continues to wreak havoc on the economy and its government's finances.
A business-backed bill seeking to protect Tennessee companies and other entities from what proponents characterize as frivolous COVID-19 lawsuits has cleared its first state House hurdle.
Ooltewah Republican pledges to work toward 'racial reconciliation'
While thousands of Tennessee teachers, state workers and higher education personnel are seeing their proposed pay raises disappear from Gov. Bill Lee's budget as tax collections plummet, hundreds of officials and employees, including the governor, are still slated to see salary hikes.
NASHVILLE - The Hamilton County Attorney's Office and local governments statewide would be required to maintain documents involving open record requests and an agency's responses to them for at least a year under a bill to amend Tennessee's Public Records Act.
As Tennessee revenues crater, Gov. Bill Lee says the state faces a $1 billion shortfall in the $39.8 billion budget set to take effect July 1 and plans among other things to to eliminate nearly $150 million in proposed pay raises for educators and state government employees.
A top state Democratic lawmaker on Wednesday urged Republican Gov. Bill Lee to reject President Donald Trump's request to send Tennessee National Guard troops to Washington to crack down on civil unrest there amid national protests over the death of George Floyd.
As a North Carolina manufacturer on Tuesday defended the safety of millions of coronavirus masks it has sold to the state for use by Tennesseans, the legislative Black Caucus waded into the controversy and called for a "full investigation" into the coverings that have been treated with an anti-microbial pesticide.
NASHVILLE - An estimated 1,000 Tennessee National Guard members from the Knoxville-based 278th Armored Cavalry Regiment are being deployed this week to Washington, D.C., as widespread protests and unrest over police brutality and racism continue across the U.S.
Tennessee, Georgia and Alabama governments have collectively committed nearly a quarter billion dollars to medical equipment and supplies in their responses to the coronavirus pandemic, public records show.
