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Classes resume at original Covenant School campus for the first time in over a year

Rose Gilbert

April 18, 2024

Covenant School students, faculty and staff are holding classes at the school’s original campus for the first time since the mass shooting that left six dead, including three children, on March 27, 2023.

Filed Under: Education, Politics, WPLN News Tagged With: Bill Lee, Covenant School, gun reform, guns in schools, Mary Joyce, Ryan Williams, Sarah Shoop Neumann, William Lamberth

‘We need to defend this law’: Inside an anti-abortion meeting with Tennessee’s GOP lawmakers

Kavitha Surana, ProPublica

November 15, 2022

Anti-abortion groups helped write and pass laws that banned abortion as soon as Roe v. Wade was overturned. These groups see Tennessee’s ban as the country’s strongest — and they want to keep it that way, according to audio reviewed by ProPublica.

Filed Under: Abortion In Depth, Politics, WPLN News Tagged With: Abortion, abortion rights, Mark Pody, Richard Briggs, Ryan Williams, Susan Lynn, Tennessee Right to Life, Will Brewer

Tennessee House Clamps Down On Debates Over National Politics

Sergio Martínez-Beltrán

January 14, 2019

Listen The open mic portion of the Tennessee House of Representatives is over. GOP leaders have pushed through rules that eliminate the personal orders period, and added tight restrictions on what they can say during the segment that replaces it.

Filed Under: Politics, WPLN News Tagged With: 111th General Assembly, Ryan Williams

After Resolution Condemning Neo-Nazis Fails, Tennessee Lawmakers Debate Who’s At Fault

Chas Sisk

March 16, 2018

Listen Tennessee lawmakers are pointing fingers at one another over the failure of a resolution condemning white nationalists and neo-Nazis, after a House panel defeated the measure earlier this week.

Filed Under: Politics, WPLN News Tagged With: John Ray Clemmons, Ryan Williams

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