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Tennessee Promise Students Have More Successful Higher Education Outcomes

Tennessee Promise Students Have More Successful Higher Education Outcomes

The Tennessee Comptroller’s latest evaluation of the Tennessee Promise program shows that Promise students are earning more credits, are retained, and earn awards at higher rates than non-Promise students who enroll at the same schools. These statistics are revealed as part of the Comptroller’s Office of Research and Education Accountability’s regular evaluation of the effectiveness […]

Summer Food Service Program Hosts Summit; Begins 2024 Application Cycle

Summer Food Service Program Hosts Summit; Begins 2024 Application Cycle

The Tennessee Department of Human Services (TDHS) is announcing its participation in the 2024 Summer Food Service Program (SFSP). The goal of the Summer Food Service Program is to ensure children 18 and younger, who benefit from meal programs at school, continue to have that same access to nutritious meals outside of school. Each year […]

Payroll employment rises by 353,000 in January; unemployment rate remains at 3.7%

Payroll employment rises by 353,000 in January; unemployment rate remains at 3.7%

Total nonfarm payroll employment rose by 353,000 in January, and the unemployment rate remained at 3.7 percent, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Job gains occurred in professional and business services, health care, retail trade, and social assistance. Employment declined in the mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction industry. This news release […]

TENNESSEE POLLINATOR EFFORTS RECOGNIZED BY INTERNATIONAL NON-PROFIT

TENNESSEE POLLINATOR EFFORTS RECOGNIZED BY INTERNATIONAL NON-PROFIT

The Tennessee Department of Transportation (TDOT) has been awarded the Pollinator Roadside Management Award for 2023 by the North American Pollinator Partnership Campaign. The award is given to agencies leading the field in pollinator-friendly roadside practices. “Pollinators are vitally important to Tennessee’s agriculture and economy,” explained Deputy Governor and TDOT Commissioner Butch Eley. “TDOT is proud of […]

Bill of rights for detransitioners introduced by Republican Caucus Chair Jeremy Faison

Bill of rights for detransitioners introduced by Republican Caucus Chair Jeremy Faison

A bill enshrining critical rights for victims of radical cosmetic gender reassignment was filed this week in the Tennessee General Assembly. House Bill 2816, sponsored by Republican Caucus Chair Jeremy Faison, R-Cosby, protects four basic rights of Tennesseans, including the right to insurance coverage, mental health care access, legal restoration and the right to transparency. […]

VITAL POLICY – Faison and Niceley Propose Legislation to Expand Access to Public School Sports for Homeschool Students

VITAL POLICY – Faison and Niceley Propose Legislation to Expand Access to Public School Sports for Homeschool Students

Homeschool families in Jefferson County who wish for their middle school children to participate in public school sports would get the green light if proposed legislation by Representative Jeremy Faison (R-Cosby) and Senator Frank Niceley (R-Strawberry Plains) finds favor with the legislature. “The benefits of organized sports go well beyond physical skills and are vitally […]

100+ Women Who Care Jefferson County – SafeSpace Receives $12,800

100+ Women Who Care Jefferson County – SafeSpace Receives $12,800

100+ Women Who Care Jefferson County is a group of women who gather four times a year for a one-hour meeting, learn about charities and each donate a $100 check to a charity that the group selects. The combined donation of $10,000 makes a real impact without time-consuming fundraising events and planning. 100+ Women meet […]

Secretary of State Tre Hargett Honors First Responders with 2023-2024 Blue Book Dedication

Secretary of State Tre Hargett Honors First Responders with 2023-2024 Blue Book Dedication

Secretary of State Tre Hargett today announced the 2023-2024 Tennessee Blue Book is dedicated to Tennessee’s first responders. “I am pleased to dedicate the 2023-2024 Tennessee Blue Book to these public servants,” said Secretary Hargett. “These heroic individuals put the well-being of their fellow citizens above their own to render lifesaving services and protect families. […]

8 Parenting Goals to Start the New Year Strong

8 Parenting Goals to Start the New Year Strong

New Year resolutions are often sweeping and grand, but often you can reap the biggest rewards by building off the strengths already in place. Helping to make your family safer, stronger and more harmonious in 2024 may not require a complete overhaul, but rather a few strategic tweaks. “This is a great time to take […]

Causes of Injury, Overtraining and Burnout in Youth Sports

Causes of Injury, Overtraining and Burnout in Youth Sports

Pediatricians can help families navigate healthy sports practices and encourage ways to keep participation fun Children and teens reap many physical and mental health benefits from participating in sports, but research shows about 70 % of them drop out of these organized activities by age 13. The American Academy of Pediatrics calls attention to the […]

Bipartisan Antitrust Lawsuit Against NCAA Expands to 11 States Total, Plus U.S. Department of Justice

Bipartisan Antitrust Lawsuit Against NCAA Expands to 11 States Total, Plus U.S. Department of Justice

In a show of support for competition in the labor market, the United States Department of Justice has joined the multistate bipartisan antitrust lawsuit against the NCAA that was filed in December and joined by Tennessee Attorney General Jonathan Skrmetti. That lawsuit challenges the NCAA’s transfer eligibility rule as an illegal restraint on college athletes’ […]

Mayor Mark Potts Calls for Preemptive Closure of Jefferson County Offices Amidst Impending Inclement Weather

Mayor Mark Potts Calls for Preemptive Closure of Jefferson County Offices Amidst Impending Inclement Weather

In a proactive move aimed at ensuring the safety and well-being of the community, Mayor Mark Potts of Jefferson County, Tennessee, has issued a formal request for the closure of all county offices. The decision comes in light of the forecast predicting inclement weather in the region. Mayor Potts has called for the closure to […]

Death penalty could be option for convicted child rapists

Death penalty could be option for convicted child rapists

Republican will seek to increase the penalty for child rapists in Tennessee. House Bill 1663, sponsored by House Majority Leader William Lamberth, R-Portland, would expand the death penalty to defendants convicted of rape of a child under the age of 12. “The death penalty is reserved for the worst of the very worst in our society, and […]

Jefferson County Government Closes Offices and Reschedules Public Meetings Due To Inclement Weather

Jefferson County Government Closes Offices and Reschedules Public Meetings Due To Inclement Weather

Snowfall and Falling Temperatures Forces Closure of Jefferson County Government Offices and Rescheduling of Public Meetings Jefferson County, TN, experienced a blanket of snowfall accompanied by plummeting temperatures, leading to the temporary closure of government offices. The inclement weather has prompted local authorities to take precautionary measures, ensuring the safety of both employees and residents. […]

VITAL POLICY – Jefferson County’s Debt Examined, An Analysis of Our Collective Credit Card Payments and Wheel Tax

VITAL POLICY – Jefferson County’s Debt Examined, An Analysis of Our Collective Credit Card Payments and Wheel Tax

Our collective county credit card is broken up between what is called “County Debt” and “Nursing Home Debt” and “Landfill Debt.” There is a distinction between them because the nursing home and landfill pays their own debt payments from their own revenue. The county taxpayers’ foot the bill directly for all other county debt. This […]

NASA Science Heads to Moon on First US Private Robotic Artemis Flight

NASA Science Heads to Moon on First US Private Robotic Artemis Flight

As part of NASA’s Commercial Lunar Payload Services initiative, Astrobotic’s Peregrine lander launched on United Launch Alliance’s (ULA) Vulcan rocket at 2:18 a.m. EST from Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. Carrying NASA scientific instruments as part of its Commercial Lunar Payload Services initiative, Astrobotic’s Peregrine lander launched on United Launch Alliance’s […]