Does it matter whether two students or 2,200 students are involved in the Tennessee Education Savings Account program if they get a better education than they would have in their nearest public school?
Today's $64,000 question is how we as Americans can regain the sense of proportion we once seemed to have over how to frame our thoughts and reactions over an issue.
If the full Tennessee state Senate and state House could vote this Friday, they might be willing to pass a bill filed in the legislature that would make Super Bowl Monday a holiday instead of Columbus Day in October.
Will the fourth time be the charm?
Hand-wringing continues across the state as school administrators, teachers and parents consider what will happen if the state's new third-grade reading retention law prevents thousands of students from moving on to fourth grade this year.
The image of a child with disabilities being shackled to prevent them from harming themselves or others sounds like an image one might see in a 19th-century illustration. But that reality soon will be debated in the Tennessee General Assembly.
Lawmakers in at least 13 states that have banned abortions are grappling with whether to leave the bans in place or determine in what cases exceptions would be allowed.
Hamilton County Commissioner Steve Highlander knows he can't snap his fingers and solve the traffic problems around the Ooltewah exit on Interstate 75, but he wanted to be sure county legislative delegation members kept the snarl on their minds as they headed to Nashville for this year's legislative session.
A presentation to the Hamilton County legislative delegation last week on the need to support the Overdose Fatality Review Act included some stark statistics such as the approximate 14% climb in Hamilton County drug overdose deaths from 2021 to 2022.
On Friday night, the world was able to witness what up until then only Memphis police and law enforcement officials had seen — the vicious beating three weeks ago of a Memphis man in custody by five officers, who have now been fired and charged.
