by Chris Butler | Oct 23, 2021 | News, Tennessee, The South
Tennessee Department of Human Services (DHS) employees did not abide by their own policies as they documented and investigated certain complaints, and those lapses could have endangered the children they were supposed to help. This, according to an audit that...
by Chris Butler | Oct 23, 2021 | Battleground States, Georgia, News, The South
Georgia Department of Labor (GDOL) officials announced this week that Georgia’s unemployment rate dropped three-tenths of a percentage point to 3.2 percent in September. GDOL officials said in an emailed press release that this is an all-time low...
by Chris Butler | Oct 23, 2021 | News, Tennessee, The South
Staff at the Tennessee Department of Education (TDOE) have invited all state residents to eight regional public town halls later this month and throughout next month to discuss the state’s public education funding strategy. “These public town halls will spark...
by Chris Butler | Oct 22, 2021 | News, Tennessee, The South
News that the Bethesda, Maryland-based National Institutes of Health (NIH) funded Gain-of-Function research in Wuhan, China has prompted certain members of Tennessee’s congressional delegation to condemn Anthony Fauci as a liar and to demand drastic changes....
by Chris Butler | Oct 22, 2021 | News, Tennessee, The South
Williamson County School System Superintendent Jason Golden acknowledged this week that WCS students who will not wear face coverings or haven’t received medical or religious exemptions currently attend classes in separate rooms. This, according to the...
by Chris Butler | Oct 22, 2021 | Battleground States, Georgia, The South
Inflation could trigger tax increases in Georgia and 21 other states, according to a new analysis from the Tax Foundation, which is a Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit. Tax brackets “fail to adjust for changes in consumer purchasing power,” according to the Tax...
by Chris Butler | Oct 22, 2021 | Battleground States, Georgia, Tennessee, The South
Lee County, Georgia will accept a more than $220 million investment from a Tennessee-based company with a reported history of ethics problems. That company, the Silicon Ranch Corporation, helps finance the construction of solar arrays. Silicon Ranch will invest...
by Chris Butler | Oct 21, 2021 | News, Tennessee, The South
Grand jurors this month indicted former Houston County Mayor George Clark and charged him with one count of official misconduct and one count of tampering with government records. Tennessee Comptrollers released a report Wednesday that accused Clark of...
by Chris Butler | Oct 21, 2021 | Battleground States, Georgia, The South
A Georgia pastor and tax preparer is in trouble with the law after federal authorities indicted him on charges of COVID-19 recovery assistance fraud. This, according to a press release that the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Georgia...
by Chris Butler | Oct 21, 2021 | Battleground States, Georgia, The South
Federal officials have sentenced a former Oconee County middle school teacher to prison after he pleaded guilty to possessing child pornography. This, according to a press release that staff at the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Georgia...
by Chris Butler | Oct 20, 2021 | News, Tennessee, The South
Tennessee Comptroller Jason Mumpower this week released a report warning Tennessee Department of Education (TDOE) officials to take additional steps to make sure they can recover assessment tests that students take online. But TDOE officials told The Tennessee...
by Chris Butler | Oct 20, 2021 | Battleground States, Georgia, News, The South
A panel of experts said they plan to release data Wednesday proving that unelected judges in Fulton County are dramatically more likely to put Georgians at risk by releasing criminal defendants in an unsecured judicial release. Elected judges in Fulton County,...
by Chris Butler | Oct 20, 2021 | Battleground States, Georgia, The South
Georgia Attorney General Chris Carr said this week that he joined a 17-state effort to deter the Biden administration from threatening parents who express their views to school officials on issues regarding their children’s education. Carr announced this in an...
by Chris Butler | Oct 19, 2021 | Battleground States, Georgia, News, The South
Two separate things have likely enabled Georgia’s repeat violent offenders to go on breaking even more laws while, at the same time, forcing Atlanta’s crime rates to soar. Unelected judges in Georgia are the first possible cause. Former governor Nathan Deal’s...
by Chris Butler | Oct 19, 2021 | News, Tennessee, The South
U.S. Representative Steve Cohen (D-TN-09) this week said he wants more federal oversight of the oil industry and asked that U.S. President Joe Biden review the use of gas pipeline permits nationwide. Cohen announced the news via email to his constituents this...
by Chris Butler | Oct 18, 2021 | Battleground States, Georgia, News, The South
Meagan Hanson, a Republican running in a competitive race to unseat incumbent Georgia U.S. Representative Lucy McBath (D-GA-06), this week reported she’s raised more than $300,000 in the first quarter of her bid for Congress. This, according to an emailed press...
by Chris Butler | Oct 18, 2021 | News, Tennessee, The South
Members of the Williamson County-based Tennessee Stands on Sunday published their priorities for a presumed special session of the state’s general assembly, and certain priorities address government overreach in the age of COVID-19. “There are a lot of issues...
by Chris Butler | Oct 17, 2021 | News, Tennessee, The South
A bipartisan coalition of 17 former state attorneys general, including one from Tennessee, this week urged the Presidential Commission on the Supreme Court to preserve the current number of nine U.S. Supreme Court justices. In a letter, these attorneys general...
by Chris Butler | Oct 17, 2021 | Battleground States, Georgia, The South
Georgia Attorney General Chris Carr has urged Congress to reject “burdensome legislation that would increase fees on energy producers and hit American consumers with even greater price hikes as heating bills surge this winter.” Carr announced the news in an...
by Chris Butler | Oct 16, 2021 | News, Tennessee, The South
Staff at the Phil Bredesen-backed Silicon Ranch announced in a press release this week that they have acquired the solar farm company Clearloop. Silicon Ranch has a history of ethics issues. Bredesen, a Democrat, is a former governor of Tennessee and a former...
by Chris Butler | Oct 16, 2021 | Battleground States, Georgia, News, The South
U.S. Representative Jody Hice (R-GA-10) this week called on Georgia legislators to appoint a special counsel to investigate alleged election fraud during last year’s presidential election in Fulton County. Hice wants to defeat and replace Georgia Secretary of...
