Published by the Tennessee Lookout, Reporter Sam Stockard – June 13, 2023 The Tennessee Education Association sued the state Tuesday claiming a new ban on automatic payroll dues deduction to professional organizations is unconstitutional and singles out teachers among public employees. Filed in Davidson County Chancery Court on behalf of association members and local education…
Published by the Tennessee Lookout, Reporter Anita Wahwani – June 14, 2023 An annual report on the state of Tennessee kids has found slight improvements in child poverty rates but limited — and even downward —shifts in longstanding poor outcomes to their health, education and well-being. The report, the 2023 Kids Count Data Book by…
Published by the Tennessee Lookout, Reporter Jennifer Shutt – June 14, 2023 WASHINGTON — Democrats in Congress reintroduced a bill Wednesday that would guarantee access to birth control regardless of any future Supreme Court rulings. The measure would ensure people have the right to use contraception and that health care providers have a right to…
Published by The Tennessean, Reporter Evan Mealins – June 12, 2023 Metro Nashville on Monday sued Gov. Bill Lee and the speakers of both chambers of the Tennessee General Assembly over a new law giving the state the power to appoint the majority of the city’s airport authority board. The lawsuit, the latest in Nashville’s…
Published by the Tennessee Lookout, Reporter Sam Stockard – June 12, 2023 U.S. District Court Judge Eli Richardson set a Thursday deadline for federal prosecutors to respond to the defense’s request for a pre-trial subpoena of House Speaker Cameron Sexton’s communication records in the corruption case against former chief of staff Cade Cothren, court records…
Published by the Tennessee Lookout, Commentator Holly McCall – June 12, 2023 Tennessee lawmakers like to give fancy names to laws that don’t remotely represent what the titles suggest. For instance, Gov. Bill Lee on June 5 ceremoniously signed the Transportation Modernization Act at a table by the side of Donelson Pike in Nashville, surrounded…
Published by the Tennessee Lookout, Reporter Sam Stockard – June 7, 2023 Under Republican Gov. Bill Lee and supermajority GOP control, Tennessee is tied up in a wide range of legal battles, some on hot-button social questions and others that are reshaping the state’s relationship with local governments, mainly Metro Nashville. In his fifth year…
Published by the Tennessee Lookout, Reporter Sam Stockard – June 2, 2023 House Speaker Cameron Sexton is declining to respond to assertions that Cade Cothren was a “confidante” and helped him in his 2019 speakership bid, claims the embattled former chief of staff made in a federal court filing. Asked about Cothren’s proclamations this week,…