On a day when the father of Matthew Shepard, a young gay man brutally murdered in 1998, visits Nashville to lament bills seen as hostile to homosexuals, the governor says there are “better things for us to focus on this year” than legislation targeting gays.
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Davidson County District Attorney General Torry Johnson today confirmed that he has received the State Comptroller’s audit of the Davidson County Clerk’s office. Johnson requested that audit, along with a TBI …
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Nominations are Open for Governor’s 2012 Environmental Stewardship Awards
NASHVILLE – The Department of Environment and Conservation is inviting Tennesseans to submit nominations for the Governor’s 2012 Environmental Stewardship …
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NASHVILLE, TN, January 25, 2012 — State Senator Dolores Gresham (R-Somerville) announced today she has filed legislation that would give teachers protection from civil liability when disciplining students as long as …
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Tennessee Department of Education Partners with Harvard University, Ed Pioneers to Invest in Data
NASHVILLE – Complementing the work underway to transform its data systems, the Tennessee Department of Education is …
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. – Mayor Karl Dean and the Tennessee Charter School Incubator announced today that national charter school leader Todd Dickson has been recruited to Nashville to …
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Section 3-7-103(d)(1), Tennessee Code Annotated, directs the Comptroller to make quarterly reports to the Fiscal Review Committee concerning the state’s fiscal affairs. In this report, …
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Recommending constitutional amendment and extension of Judicial Nominating Commission
NASHVILLE – Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam, Lt.Gov. Ron Ramsey (R-Blountville) and House Speaker Beth Harwell (R-Nashville) today announced a joint proposal to …
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This is a compilation of Tennessee news and political stories assembled daily by staffers in Gov. Bill Haslam’s office.
Haslam paints legislative picture for region (Cookeville Herald Citizen)
Politics took center stage on Monday as Tennessee Governor Bill Haslam rolled …
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