Chas Sisk

Listen Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam could play a key role in determining what Republicans in Washington do next on health care. Haslam is part of a team of eight governors tapped to advise the Trump administration and Congress on how they’d replace the Affordable Care Act. The group was assembled by Republican Governors Association chairman […]

Listen Democrats in the Tennessee legislature are touting a list of policies that they say will benefit Tennessee’s middle class. Their “People’s Bill of Rights” consists of five core principles that they say justify actions like raising the state’s minimum wage, lessening sentences for marijuana possession and opposing school vouchers. “This is going back to […]

For the past several weeks, Republicans have been dealing with rambunctious crowds in town halls and in legislative corridors. It’s happening across the nation and in Tennessee. They’ve sparked a debate: Are these authentic, grassroots protests of President Donald Trump, the Republicans in Congress and those controlling the Tennessee State Capitol? Or are they “Astro-turf” […]

Listen Governor Bill Haslam has been outsourcing some functions of state government almost since he took office. For many Tennesseans who don’t work in state government, it’s been out of sight. But the effects of privatization are becoming more and more apparent.

Listen Just up the road from the entrance to Fall Creek Falls State Park sits a motel. “You know, this is not a kind of place that you come (to) if you want a spa treatment,” owner Melissa Harmon says deprecatingly. She and her husband have owned the Way Inn for a decade. It’s your […]

Listen The leader of the Tennessee Senate says he sees no need for lawmakers to debate regulations on which bathroom transgender students get to use. That’s after President Donald Trump’s administration repealed federal guidance this week that required schools to let them use the bathroom of their choice.

Listen Congressman Marsha Blackburn took on pointed questions Tuesday about President Donald Trump’s first month in office and plans to replace the Affordable Care Act. The Republican representative was just the latest member of Congress to face hostility as she met with constituents in an hour-long, townhall-style meeting in Fairview.

It’s been only five months since state Representative Jeremy Durham was expelled from the Tennessee General Assembly amid allegations he’d sexually harassed nearly two dozen women. But lawmakers are already wrestling with the issue again, following the resignation of another legislator: Memphis Representative Mark Lovell. Just weeks after being sworn in, he was accused of […]

Listen Democrat or Republican? Soon voters in Davidson County might not be told when they go to elect judges. Republicans argue that’ll make the judiciary less biased. But Democrats question their motives.