A Tennessee transportation board selected a road-building group Wednesday to fund and build toll lanes from the southeast Nashville area to Murfreesboro as part of a package in which the contractor locked up the bid by agreeing to pay the state nearly $25 billion over the life of a 50-year contract. The Transportation Modernization Board […]
An East Tennessee Republican lawmaker is challenging the governor’s support for bringing a massive nuclear facility to East Tennessee, saying the risk of storing nuclear waste is greater than any economic benefits. Rep. Ed Butler of Rickman sent a letter to Gov. Bill Lee on Aug. 10 expressing his opposition to using Tennessee for nuclear […]
For the past eight years, Tennessee has seen an ever-increasing state budget, with surpluses often in the billions of dollars. The growing pot of money has allowed Gov. Bill Lee and state lawmakers to use the extra cash for large-scale infrastructure projects, to cut taxes and expand the state’s private school voucher program. But with […]
Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee is declining to stop Thursday’s scheduled execution of death row inmate Darrell Hines, even as his attorneys claim he could suffer cruel and unusual punishment because of an “under-skilled” physician. “After deliberate consideration of Anthony Darrell Hines’ request for clemency, and after a thorough review of the case, I am upholding […]
A Tennessee man scheduled to be executed Thursday night for a 1986 murder is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to review his claim that he could suffer cruel and unusual punishment because of an “under-skilled” physician in charge of administering lethal drugs. Attorneys for Darrell Hines filed a petition with the nation’s high court Sunday […]
Dehydration was a primary factor in a botched execution that forced Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee to call off and postpone a man’s death penalty for a year, a state senator told the Lookout. Republican Sen. Ferrell Haile of Gallatin, who signed a letter seeking an investigation of the failed execution of Tony Carruthers and postponement […]
Gov. Bill Lee said Monday Tennessee has a “really good chance” at being one of two states in the running for a $50 billion nuclear energy campus but hedged on whether it would store nuclear waste. Speaking to the Nashville Rotary Club, Lee called it an “incredible opportunity” that the state should pursue because of […]
Tennessee’s election season is in full swing, and a cursory view of Republican candidates’ campaign ads would have one think they were watching Saturday Night Live skits. U.S. Sen. Marsha Blackburn, thought to be the frontrunner in the Republican gubernatorial primary, put out an ad laced with Asian stereotypes and racist dogwhistles, in which she […]
U.S. Sen. Bill Hagerty released on Tuesday a campaign ad, a more than one-minute spot in which he praised the work of the Memphis Safe Task Force, the alphabet soup of federal agencies, mixed in with the Tennessee Highway Patrol and Tennessee National Guard, occupying the Bluff City to allegedly crack down on crime. = […]
The United States Department of Energy announced Tuesday that Tennessee was one of the five states under consideration for a federal partnership as part of the Trump administration’s attempt to boost nuclear energy production. The program, called the Nuclear Lifecycle Innovation Campuses, would allow Tennessee to build an industrial-like zone that could support “the full […]
