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Bill would allow parents religious exemptions in getting children COVID vaccine

A Tennessee lawmaker has filed a bill that would give parents a greater right to refuse vaccines for their children during a pandemic based on religious objections or "by right of conscience." Current Tennessee law...
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Nashville health director under Human Resources investigation

Metro Department of Public Health Director Dr. Michael Caldwell is the subject of multiple human resources complaints, which are currently under investigation. Complaints to the Metro Human Resources Department are not a public record until...
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Analysis: Former Gov. Bill Haslam is missing ingredient in bringing MLB to Nashville

The resignation of Chicago Cubs President Theo Epstein on Tuesday touched off immediate speculation on baseball Twitter - as depraved a place as any on the internet - that Epstein could soon join a...
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TN teachers ask Lee for statewide mask mandate

The Tennessee Education Association asked Gov. Bill Lee on Tuesday to implement a statewide mask mandate and take other safety measures after their research showed teachers are contracting COVID-19 at consistently higher rates than...
Nashville, Tenn., Nov. 14 -A supporter of President Donald Trump holds a Trump flag in one hand and rosary beads in the other. (Photo: Ray Di Pietro)

Trump supporters converge in Nashville for second week

For the second weekend in a row, supporters of President Donald Trump converged on the Tennessee State Capitol and the Legislative Plaza in Nashville for a "Stop the Steal" protest of the election of...
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Newly elected members of the U.S. House converge on Washington

WASHINGTON — They’ve won their campaigns. Now, newly elected members of the U.S. House of Representatives are spending their first days in the nation’s capital, learning how to perform their new jobs. The orientation session...
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Tennessee faces shaky landscape for jobs and public aid to low income residents

Despite a pandemic that has hit Tennessee particularly hard, crippling many businesses, taxing healthcare resources and devastating the loved ones of more than 3,800 Tennesseans who have died, the state's measures of economic growth...
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Defunct HOA leaves South Nashville neighborhood in quandary with TDOT

Homeowners associations are typically associated with suburbia, but they play critical roles in the city neighborhoods as well, as residents of a Nashville community found out in recent years.  While the role of an HOA ...
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TennCare adds more than 83,000 as pandemic drives more Tennesseans into poverty

More than 83,000 Tennesseans have been added to the TennCare rolls since March in one sign of a marked slide into poverty experienced by many individuals, especially children, as a result of the economic...
President Ronald Reagan signing Voting Rights Act legislation in the East Room of the White House on June 29, 1982. National Archives from Collection: Reagan White House Photographs

Commentary: Time for America return to 1980s can-do populism

The populist conservative movement known as the New Right enjoyed unprecedented growth in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Its greatest salesman was  Ronald Reagan. It appealed to evangelical Christians, anti-tax crusaders, advocates of...

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