2024-Election Voter Guide - Tennessee Lookout
Tennessee voters will go to the polls on Nov. 5 not only to vote for the next U.S. president, but in a U.S. Senate race and all nine U.S. House races.
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Tennessee officials approved $43 million in emergency funds for TSU
2024年11月15日 · State officials authorized a $43 million infusion into Tennessee State University’s operating budget in November to make payroll and prop up the university for the rest of the year, even after it laid off 114 people and cut expenses to cope with a financial crisis.
Casada-Cothren kickback trial postponed until April 2025
2024年10月4日 · The federal bribery and kickback trial for former House Speaker Glen Casada and his former chief of staff, Cade Cothren, is being delayed for six months until April 2025.
Lawsuit: feds probing Johnson City Police over serial rapist cover …
2024年4月22日 · A federal investigation dramatically widens the scope of legal peril facing Johnson City, its police department and individual officers. Prior DOJ police corruption investigations in other jurisdictions have led to criminal prosecutions of individual officers and direct federal supervision of police departments.
U.S. House of Representatives District 2 - tennesseelookout.com
Tim Burchett. Republican • Incumbent Knoxville native Tim Burchett was elected to the Tennessee House of Representatives in 1994 and was elevated to the state Senate in 1998, where he served until 2010. when he was elected Knox County Mayor.
Federal grants to fund railroad upgrades in Middle, West Tennessee
2024年10月30日 · Three Tennessee railroad projects will receive up to $25.7 million in infrastructure grants from the U.S. Department of Transportation.
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3 天之前 · U.S. Senate moves ahead with immigration bill expanding detention for theft, shoplifting BY: Ariana Figueroa - January 14, 2025 WASHINGTON — The U.S. Senate Monday voted to proceed with consideration of a bill that would impose new mandatory immigration detention requirements for immigrants charged with property crimes and give broad legal standing to state attorneys general.
U.S. House of Representatives District 1 - tennesseelookout.com
Incumbent Republican Rep. Diana Harshbarger, first elected in 2020, faces opposition from Democrat Kevin Jenkins and independent candidates Levi Brake and Wisdom Zerit Teklay in this upper East Tennessee district, which is composed of all of Carter, Cocke, Greene, Hamblen, Hancock, Hawkins, Johnson, Sullivan, Unicoi, Washington, and Sevier counties and parts of Jefferson County.
Gov. Lee signs order to conserve Duck River, a ‘scenic treasure’ at ...
2024年11月21日 · After years of advocacy from conservation groups, Gov. Bill Lee on Wednesday signed an executive order aiming to protect the Duck River, the longest and most biodiverse river in Tennessee.