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Hamilton County Schools will not allow teachers or faculty to carry handguns, despite a recently passed Tennessee bill that would allow it under certain conditions. timesfreepress.com/news/2024/apr/…
Speaker Sexton says agreement reached on franchise tax rebate/cut bill that will include "transparency" with company names and amounts requested by the House.
NEW U.S. House speaker Mike Johnson confronts anti-war protesters at Columbia University from @JenniferShutt @statesnewsroom DC lailluminator.com/2024/04/24/joh… via @IlluminatorLA
The House just tabled Rep. Ragan's anti-reparations bill. He had sent out a letter urging Republican colleagues to support his bill.
Full story here: tennesseelookout.com/2024/04/24/rep…
From @stockard_sam: Rep. John Ragan, an Oak Ridge Republican, tries to resurrect his bill to prevent local governments from studying reparations for descendants of enslaved people. tennesseelookout.com/2024/04/24/rep…
Republicans and Democrats have increasingly been at each other's throats this year in the Tennessee House, but it's still rather odd to see a GOP member openly accuse a Democrat for "wasting" everyone's time in response to explaining opposition to a bill.
From the Tennessee House: Rep. John Ragan has given a letter to his Republican colleagues urging their support for his bill prohibiting local governments from studying reparations, accusing media of "salacious sensationalism" and Democrats of "hurling . . . Racial slurs."
Rep. Dave Wright brings bill that would prevent people from running in two elections on same day after Nov. 6. Rep. Sam McKenzie says it will limit people. Rep. Gloria Johnson is running for re-election and U.S. Senate.
Watch as Republican Timothy Hill from Blountville tells Rep. Justin J. Pearson releases what he's been holding in for quite some time. Oh and in advance Hill was not ruled out of order. Instead Democrats were ruled out of order for responding to Hill.
FAB ANALYSIS Fumbling the ball on the one-yard line • Tennessee Lookout #BillFreeman @TNLookout @jhollymc tennesseelookout.com/2024/04/24/fum…
Rep. Timothy Hill accuses Rep. Pearson of wasting "five minutes" of lawmakers' time in bill critiques.
They're holding another parliamentary inquiry session to determine whether Hill disparaged Pearson, who called Hill's bill a "waste of time."
Fumbling the ball on the one-yard line: Nashville businessman Bill Freeman gives his take on Gov. Bill Lee's inability to pass his signature legislation -- private school vouchers. tennesseelookout.com/2024/04/24/fum…
Conference committee on franchise tax break meets at 8:30 a.m. Thursday, and Legislature could adjourn sine die later in the day, according to Leader Jack Johnson. At long last.
Editorial cartoonist @ColeToon illustrates a different version of an old Southern song:
Jones hasn't been recognized all day due to his violation of Rule 19 yesterday. I'm not sure what the penalty would do. Maybe make Jones not eligible to speak for an additional day. If so, I'm not sure he'd be able to speak again this week. There's no session scheduled Friday.
House Republicans just unanimously voted to allow their colleague to keep talking after he called a member of the Democratic Party racist. So it seems Republicans don't mind the word being used. Right after Rep. Jones was called out of order.
Filled with more gratitude than words can express to announce that @mariamaelba and I are Livingston Award finalists for our work on domestic violence and guns in Tennessee. wallacehouse.umich.edu/livingston-awa… @WPLN @propublica @UMWallaceHouse
Davidson County Circuit Court Judge David Briley ruled Tuesday that ex-officio members of the Tennessee Democratic Party Executive Committee have the right to vote on party business. tennesseelookout.com/briefs/ruling-…
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News 2 Capitol Hill Reporter Chris O’Brien leaves us today after terrific work during the last several Legislative Sessions. Chris will be missed as he begins his new job with the State. Best of luck on the new chapter.
Speaker Sexton says agreement reached on franchise tax rebate/cut bill that will include "transparency" with company names and amounts requested by the House.
As I've said before, there is nobody who deserves this honor more. So grateful for @jgregorywkrn, and so thankful to call him a colleague and friend.
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House sets constitutional amendment vote allowing judges to decline bail for violent crimes other than capital murder.
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Gov. Lee said yesterday about the franchise tax, "We are going to pass some legislation, right? They're in conference between the House and the (Senate)." Bystanders aren't certain that's how it always works.
Still, Gov Lee opposes putting companies and their tax rebates on the state's website, saying it would be "unprecedented." That's one of the main sticking points as the House contends it is critical.
Tennessee’s top lawmakers unfurled the banner on an “education freedom scholarship” for statewide private school vouchers in a highly anticipated event last November. via @TNLookout @stockard_sam @friedmanadam5 newsfromthestates.com/article/tennes…
"Dear Gov. Lee, Lt. Gov. McNally, and Mr. Speaker Sexton, Tennessee has already seen the movie you are producing and directing, and trust me, it doesn’t end well for you. "
Columnist @JimOHara6 was a Pulitzer Prize finalist in 1990 for covering corruption in the Tennessee Legislature. He shares a history lesson for current leaders on how locking out the public and media worked the last time it was tried. tennesseelookout.com/2024/04/22/a-h…
@TNLookout @JimOHara6 From the Tennessee constitution “Freedom of speech and press. That the printing presses shall be free to every person to examine the proceedings of the Legislature; or of any branch or officer of the government, and no law shall ever be made to restrain the right thereof."
@TNLookout @JimOHara6 Excellent article, educating and relevant, thank you.
Tennessee's statewide school voucher bill dead, but not forgotten tennesseelookout.com/2024/04/22/ten… via @TNLookout
The voucher legislation became increasingly doomed as the 2024 legislative session went on, as both sides of the political aisle squeezed lawmakers on the issue. tennesseelookout.com/2024/04/22/ten… via @stockard_sam and me
Essential piece of commentary (and history) by @JimOHara6 at @TNLookout today on public speech, press freedom, and the Tennessee legislature. tennesseelookout.com/2024/04/22/a-h…
‘Why Lee is continuing to push this (unprecedented funding for private-school vouchers) when a wide majority of Tennesseans don’t want it is perplexing.” @stockard_sam with the central question. tennesseelookout.com/2024/04/19/sto…
About damn time! @TNLookout Thanks for your reporting @anitawadhwani tennesseelookout.com/2024/04/22/law…
Another brilliantly insightful piece by @TNLookout editor @jhollymc writing "getting guns into as many hands as possible while mistreating mothers? Now that’s a feature, not a bug." TN voters must #VoteBlueToEndTheMadness tennesseelookout.com/2024/04/17/arm…