Capitol Hill Conversation: State Of The State Preview
Tonight, Governor Bill Haslam will give his State of the State address in front of lawmakers in Nashville. The speech is expected to be largely about money and policy. Over the past year, tax revenues...
View ArticleCapitol Hill Conversation: Department of Children’s Services Head Resigns
Commissioner Kate O’Day ran Tennessee’s Department of Children’s Services for two years. She quit last week a day before she was set to testify in front of lawmakers about child deaths.The Department...
View ArticleCapitol Hill Conversation: State Authorizer For Charter Schools In The Works
The state could soon decide which charter schools can open up in Memphis and Nashville. A proposed bill in the Tennessee General Assembly aims to wrest control of that process away from the school...
View ArticleCapitol Hill Conversation: Who Will Get Vouchers For Private School?
The state Legislature will spend time this week hammering out the details of a school voucher bill. Those specifics will determine who will be able to use public money to attend private school....
View ArticleCapitol Hill Conversation: Repairing Workers’ Compensation
A plan to overhaul the way workers’ compensation claims are handled will be debated in the Tennessee General Assembly this week. Under the current system, if there is a dispute between an employer and...
View ArticleCapitol Hill Conversation: Reviving Wine in Supermarkets
The debate over who can sell alcohol and where dates back to liquor laws hashed out at the end of prohibition, but the latest controversy in the state Legislature is over expanding wine sales to...
View ArticleCapitol Hill Conversation: To Expand Medicaid, Or Not To Expand
The Supreme Court decision on the Affordable Care Act left Governor Bill Haslam with a big decision—expand Medicaid to include more low-income Tennesseans, or don’t. The governor is not exactly saying...
View ArticleCapitol Hill Conversation: Dead Ed. Bills
The Tennessee General Assembly is in the last few weeks of one of the shortest legislative sessions in decades and lawmakers are scurrying to finish their business. In the rush to wrap up, legislators...
View ArticleCapitol Hill Conversation: Animal Cruelty Bill May Not Be What It Seems
One of the last remaining skirmishes in the Tennessee General Assembly this year pits the interests of agriculture against animal rights activists. The proposal before the state Legislature requires...
View ArticleCapitol Hill Conversation: Bickering Republicans Kill Bills
The Tennessee General Assembly wrapped up its session last week. There were some major state laws passed this year: an overhaul to the workers’ compensation program, a law that allows people to store...
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