Tennessee is missing out on $106.4 million in federal education funding that was expected to be accessible on July 1 but has yet to be released by the Trump administration.

What occurred a century ago this month in the courtroom of the Rhea County Courthouse refuses to be forgotten. The utterance of a name — Scopes — is a reminder of those two torrid weeks in July 1925 when the world’s eyes were on Dayton.

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TRUMP: ”It's known as ‘Alligator Alcatraz,’ which is very appropriate because I looked outside, and that's not a place I want to go hiking anytime soon.”

President Donald Trump nominated prominent Nashville businessman Lee Beaman to the Tennessee Valley Authority Board of Directors on July 1, along with Knoxville lawyer Jeff Hagood and healthcare executive Mitch Graves of Memphis.

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U.S. Rep. Chuck Fleischmann, R-Ooltewah, will vote yes on the Senate's version of a major tax cut and policy bill aimed at ushering in President Donald Trump's second-term agenda.

Trump signed two executive orders this spring to expand domestic logging and nullify environmental protections on more than half of the nation’s national forests, including some old-growth woods in East Tennessee.

It took a riot and multiple indictments, but the chorus of calls is growing to boot Tennessee’s private-prison operator out of a Hartsville correctional center.

A vote allowing Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” to come up for debate indicated a breakthrough after Speaker Mike Johnson haggled with Republican holdouts into the early hours of Thursday.

Abrego Garcia, illegally deported, is now offering a chilling account of mistreatment in a Salvadoran prison. He’s currently detained in TN, at his request (to avoid threats of re-deportation), while trial on criminal charges is pending.

LETTER TO EDITOR: The disturbing rise of Christian Nationalism … signals a crisis in civic understanding. We are forgetting the very principles that once held us together.

A new lawsuit, this time appealing directly to the Oklahoma Supreme Court, aims to overturn the state’s new pro-Bible, pro-Christian standards for social studies.

The Missouri National Education Association is suing the state to block $51 million allocated to the “MOScholars K-12 scholarship” private school voucher program.

TN Gov. Lee says “it’s not necessary” to show the extent that his new voucher program is funding private school tuition for families whose children were already in private schools. He says every child should have “access to a scholarship.”

Today, we face a troubling trend. The push for voucher programs that redirect public funds to private schools threatens to abandon the fundamental promise of public education … a beacon of opportunity for all.

Hidden in this budget package before the House is a national private school voucher program funded through tax breaks for the wealthy that threatens to dismantle our system of public schools.

The tax and spending legislation approved by the U.S. Senate yesterday would create an unprecedented, dollar-for-dollar federal tax credit designed to support private and religious K-12 schools.