We acknowledge that, in the end, the Tennessee Valley Authority is going to make decisions for itself based on what it believes is best for the nation's largest public utility. But we are unhappy to learn that TVA alone will now determine whether it will limit public input on projects with significant environment impact.
True to its word, the Tennessee Democratic Party has tried to recruit a candidate for every office currently held by a Republican in this year's state and local elections. Whether any of them can break through is another thing entirely.
We can imagine Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee in a conversation late last month with administration officials.
A not-so-funny thing happened to Tom Marshall on his way to a Hamilton County Board of Education seat. He did not vote in three out of the last four Republican primaries.
Why would the Tennessee legislature take time to consider a bill (HB1491/SB1714) that requires public schools to "provide its students and employees with an opportunity to participate in a designated period of prayer and reading of the Bible or other religious text?"
A measure of sanity settled over the Tennessee House earlier this week when a bill that would have provided a chaplain for public schools was essentially killed.
In the minds of some pundits today, Christian nationalists in 2026 are the Communists of the 1950s, infiltrating government, warping the minds of average Americans and insidiously overtaking our every way of life.
A few quick thoughts on recent news stories:
Tennessee legislators are filing bills as if there were a contest to see which state could eradicate its illegal immigrants the quickest.
For the first time since 2010, and only the second time since Hamilton County Election Commission results were first put online in 1990, five Hamilton County Commission incumbents will be challenged in May's primary elections.
