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Tennessee Senate plans to appeal court ruling that requires them to draw new district maps

Tennessee Senate plans to appeal court ruling that requires them to draw new district maps

Blaise Gainey

April 7, 2022

Republican Senate Leader Randy McNally wants a court to reconsider blocking the state’s new Senate maps. A court ruling Wednesday gave the state 15 days to redraw the maps, while allowing new House maps to stand.  

Filed Under: Politics, WPLN News Tagged With: 112th Tennessee General Assembly, redistricting, Tennessee, tnleg, tnpol

Tennessee will make ivermectin available without a prescription, despite research showing no benefit for COVID treatment

Blake Farmer

April 7, 2022

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Under a bill awaiting Gov. Bill Lee’s signature, Tennessee would make ivermectin available at pharmacies without a prescription.

Filed Under: Coronavirus Live Updates, Health Care, Politics, WPLN News Tagged With: 112th Tennessee General Assembly, Coronavirus In Tennessee, COVID, COVID misinformation, COVID-19, Frank Niceley, General Assembly, ivermectin, legislature, Richard Briggs, Tennessee General Assembly, Tennessee Legislature

Two years after the FBI labeled him a spy, a Tennessee professor returns to the classroom

Marianna Bacallao

April 7, 2022

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Civil rights advocates have criticized the so-called “China Initiative” for targeting professors based on their ethnicity. For one Tennessee professor, it’s been a long journey back to the classroom after his arrest.

Filed Under: Education, Race & Equity, WPLN News Tagged With: China, University of Tennessee, UT

It’s tax season! Here’s what stumped ‘This Is Nashville’ listeners when filing their 2021 taxes

Tasha A.F. Lemley

April 6, 2022

Budget Crunch panelists Lucia White, a former bank teller and personal budgeting enthusiast, and Chanon MacDonald, an associate planner at TrustCore pursuing her CFP license, answered listener-generated questions on This Is Nashville.

Filed Under: Features, WPLN News Tagged With: Budget Crunch, taxes, This Is Nashville

Court blocks Tennessee Senate maps in redistricting lawsuit

Blaise Gainey

April 6, 2022

The 20th Judicial District Chancery Court is ordering Republicans to redraw Senate maps in a lawsuit over their constitutionality.

Filed Under: Politics, WPLN News Tagged With: Bill Lee, congressional maps, house maps, lawsuit, legislative maps, maps, redistricting, senate maps, tennesssee politics, tnleg, tnpol, voting

Metro Council tells the chamber to knock off its efforts to give the mayor more power over schools

Ambriehl Crutchfield

April 6, 2022

The Nashville Area Chamber of Commerce is pitching state lawmakers on an idea for county mayors to appoint school board members, and that’s drawing criticism from the Metro Council.

Filed Under: Business, Metro, Politics, WPLN News

A Nashville judge could step in as the state begins its financial takeover of the town of Mason

Blake Farmer

April 6, 2022

A Nashville judge may step in to protect the West Tennessee town of Mason. On Monday, the state comptroller took over its finances — requiring the town to aggressively pay down its debt before paying any other bills each month.

Filed Under: Business, Politics, Race & Equity, WPLN News Tagged With: Mason, Tennessee Comptroller, Town of Mason

Knoxville and Paris, France, make plans for Beauford Delaney’s art to get its due

Ambriehl Crutchfield

April 6, 2022

Residents in Knoxville, Tenn., and Paris, France, are trying to make sure Beauford Delaney doesn’t get lost to time. He’s one of many noteworthy American artists of the 20th century.

Filed Under: Arts, Culture & Music, WPLN News Tagged With: Art, Beauford Delaney, Knoxville

Curious Nashville: Will traffic ever improve at Bell Road, one of Nashville’s most baffling interstate exits?

Hallie Graham

April 6, 2022

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Traffic is not really a new story in Nashville, but Rusti Keen says Exit 59 on Interstate 24 is “particularly insane.” So, she came to Curious Nashville with a question.

Filed Under: Curious Nashville, Features, WPLN News Tagged With: Antioch, Curious Nashville, transportation

A plan to discriminate against same-sex marriages in Tennessee would’ve made child marriage legal. It’s now expected to be amended.

Blaise Gainey

April 5, 2022

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A Tennessee bill that would have eliminated minimum age limits to get married caught fire on social media this week. Now, the bill’s Republican sponsor is amending the legislation.

Filed Under: Politics, WPLN News Tagged With: 112th Tennessee General Assembly, gay marriage, General Assembly, legislation, legislature, marriage, same-sex marriage, Tennessee General Assembly, Tennessee Legislature

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