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Tennessee Republican Sen. Lamar Alexander said he has yet to make a decision on whether President Donald Trump should be impeached.
Alexander has been hesitant to weigh in on how he’d vote during the expected impeachment trial in the Senate. Talking to reporters in Nashville on Friday, Alexander reiterated his thoughts on the inquiry.
A new review finds that few departments within Nashville government have written policies about how to answer requests from federal immigration authorities.
The clearest loser in Metro’s emergency budget plan is the Barnes Affordable Housing Trust Fund. Some nonprofit developers were surprised to learn this month that they would not be receiving anticipated grants worth up to $2 million this year.
The fourth teen who escaped from Nashville’s juvenile detention center was caught at an apartment complex in Antioch Thursday afternoon, ending a 13-day search.
Police say tips from Crime Stoppers helped them find 17-year-old Brandon Caruthers. The investigation also sheds light on the inner workings of a police unit created in early 2018 to address teen crime.
The city of Nashville has found a way to balance its budget, averting the remote possibility of a takeover by state finance officials. Yet even as the “good news” was relayed Wednesday to the Metro Council, the city’s finance director warned of even bigger financial “mountains” to climb.
