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Lobbying groups spent around $35 million to influence Tennessee lawmakers during the first half of 2023

By Adam Friedman - September 21, 2023

Tennessee leads nation in arresting and punishing pregnant women

By Anita Wadhwani - September 21, 2023

Tennessee State Capitol. (Photo: John Partipilo)

State revenue falls amid tax holidays, business break

By Sam Stockard - September 21, 2023

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Tennessee State University’s Glover urges state to pony up $2.1 billion

BY Sam Stockard - September 20, 2023

States urged by Biden administration to rectify underfunding of land-grant HBCUs

BY Ariana Figueroa - September 19, 2023

Election map: 2023 Nashville mayor race looks like 2020 Presidential election

BY Adam Friedman - September 19, 2023

State Building Commission backs new Moccasin Bend mental hospital despite Chattanooga opposition

BY Sam Stockard - September 19, 2023

House minority leader blasts Republican rep’s letter supporting Tuberville delays

BY Sam Stockard - September 18, 2023

A bloody clipboard and biodiesel car: The story behind Freddie O’Connell’s rise to Nashville mayor

BY Adam Friedman - September 18, 2023

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John Cole’s Tennessee: Autopsy report

BY John Cole - September 20, 2023

Keep arbitration an option for older Americans

BY Chris Yard - September 20, 2023

Even a landslide doesn’t equal a mandate

BY John Geer - September 18, 2023

Editor’s notebook: Democracy requires the media to hold candidates, officials accountable

BY J. Holly McCall - September 15, 2023

Immigrant, Black voters play key role in Metro Nashville elections

BY J. Holly McCall - September 14, 2023

A new challenge to Tennessee’s abortion ban

BY Adam Friedman - September 12, 2023

American Baptist College lands $3 million technology grant for minority communities

BY J. Holly McCall - September 8, 2023

Appeals Court clears the way to allow Jewish couple to sue Tennessee for discriminatory adoption law

BY Adam Friedman - September 7, 2023

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Examining how private political spending impacts lives of Tennesseans

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WJBE in 1968 when the station opened. (Photo: Facebook)

Black-owned Knoxville radio station retains license

By Anita Wadhwani - September 18, 2023

CAPTION: U.S. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer speaks to reporters in the U.S. Capitol on Sept. 14, 2023, as action in the chamber on spending bills got sidetracked ahead of a Sept. 30 deadline to avoid a partial government shutdown. (Jennifer Shutt/States Newsroom)

With two weeks until the money runs out, Congress grinds to halt on spending bills

By Jennifer Shutt - September 16, 2023

Sign at the entrance to the John S. Wilder Youth Development Center. Reports have chronicled instances of verbal, physical and sexual assault of juveniles housed at the facility. (Photo: Google Earth)

Department of Children’s Services spending $400M on intake, juvenile detention projects

By Sam Stockard - September 15, 2023

Private emails, texts, about government business often not kept on file

By Lonnie Lee Hood - September 15, 2023

Nashville Mayor-elect Freddie O'Connell surrounded by his daughters at his victory party on Sept. 14, 2023. (Photo: John Partipilo)

Freddie O’Connell wins Nashville mayoral election in landslide victory

By Adam Friedman - September 14, 2023