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Since President Donald Trump took, immigration enforcement activity at Nashville jails has surged. In February, ICE agents picked up nearly four times as many people from Nashville jails as they did in the same month last year. nashvillebanner.com/2025/03/05/n...

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A Republican-sponsored bill in the TN legislature would lower the standard for using deadly force to protect property. It comes as Nashville police have warned residents not to engage with potentially armed car burglars. State DA's conferece is opposing the bill. nashvillebanner.com/2025/03/04/t...

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Rose and Blackburn both plan to run. Jacobs and Hininger appear to be backing Blackburn, abandoning their own bids for governor.

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New energy secretary denies climate change a ‘crisis’ during a weekend visit to Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee tennesseelookout.com/2025/03/01/n... @tennesseelookout.com

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New research by Ed Miller identified 365 Tennessee cases in which a person was convicted of the first-degree murder of multiple victims but was not sentenced to death. Meanwhile, 29 of the 46 people on the state’s death row were convicted of murdering one person. nashvillebanner.com/2025/03/03/t...

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Tennessee’s own Steve Berger and Lee Beaman at the center of this one.

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Helpful round up of all of the housing and zoning bills in Tennessee’s legislature this year by @stelliott.bsky.social nashvillebanner.com/2025/02/27/t...

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Between this Bezofication of WaPo and the LAT gutting last year, it’s obvious that billionaires buying legacy media isn’t the solution to funding journalism. People who care about the world and knowing what goes on in it are going to have to pay for their news and look for more independent outlets.

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Driven by a rotary club buddy whose 25-year-old son died in the prison, Republicans will introduce bills that could drop Trousdale Turner to minimum security and create new prison oversight. As deaths, assaults and contraband plague the prison, some contemplate the state’s contract with CoreCivic.

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9-year-old Marcia Trimble was delivering Girl Scout cookies in affluent Green Hills when she disappeared. Jeffrey Womack, 15 at the time, was one of the last people to see her alive. Police pursued him as a suspect, despite other leads in a case that rocked the city.

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Immigrants without permanent legal status would no longer have the right to pursue most lawsuits -- including medical malpractice-- in Tennessee courts under a bill introduced this month by Republican lawmakers. From @anitawadhwani.bsky.social.

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The tug of war over what types of hemp products can be grown and sold in TN continues as lawmakers debate bills to further restrict sales along with ones that propose legalization. Meanwhile, a group of hemp distributors & retailers are suing the state in response to efforts to halt certain sales.

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Some news: The Tennessee Supreme Court has denied a request to consider the legal dispute over whether the state attorney general can take control of some post-conviction proceedings in death penalty cases away from local district attorneys. nashvillebanner.com/2025/02/21/t...

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We've got something of an unplanned series of stories at @nashvillebanner.bsky.social this month: I wrote about the Nashville police department's ongoing struggle to fill all of the officer positions they're budgeted for. nashvillebanner.com/2025/02/13/m...

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Update: We are milking this because if Dolly reads the @nashvillebanner.bsky.social, so should you.

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“Educational institutions have toxically indoctrinated students with the false premise that the United States is built upon ‘systemic and structural racism’" U.S. Dept. of Ed letter to K-12 schools/universities threatening funding cuts said tennesseelookout.com/2025/02/20/t... @tennesseelookout.com

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“Here I am, kind of the accidental acting U.S. attorney." Rob McGuire inherited the role of acting U.S. Attorney for the Middle District of TN through a series of events he said he never anticipated. The Banner spoke with McGuire on his path to the position –– and future career plans.

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Staff cuts, scholarship caps and community donations could help patch up TSU's budget, but unspent capital funds meant to atone for historical underfunding of the university may be the key to saving Tennessee's only public HBCU. nashvillebanner.com/2025/02/20/t...

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Tennessee hasn’t filled all of its new trooper positions from last year, but the governor is still looking to add 117 in the next budget. THP wouldn’t provide a number of current vacancies, but offered jobs to 125-130 candidates last week. nashvillebanner.com/2025/02/18/b...

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Please, please, please be like Dolly

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Dolly Parton reading the Nashville Banner in her new video with Sabrina Carpenter.

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CoreCivic spokesperson emailed last night to add that “this personnel matter is completely unrelated to the pending Department of Justice investigation.”

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Tennessee Department of Children's Services took five young kids from their parents after a misdemeanor traffic stop based on secret conversations with a judge then papered over the fact they never got a court order, new allegations in civil rights lawsuit said. tennesseelookout.com/2025/02/13/t...

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In his seventh State of the State address, Gov. Bill Lee previewed his proposed $59.5 billion budget that revisits several past priorities for the state, like farmland preservation grants, money for TVA’s nuclear development and making Tennessee College of Applied Technology free for all students.

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"Nearly 100 children in Tennessee custody spent the night in Department of Children's Services offices last year, despite the agency's two-year effort to shift more kids into transitional homes." www.tennessean.com/story/news/i...

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“It’s definitely heartbreaking knowing that people are going back to perilous situations after they have waited patiently and gone through the ‘right way,’ so to speak.”

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Two transgender teens who relocated to other states after Tennessee banned gender-affirming care for minors and other anti-trans policies have joined a legal challenge to the Trump Administration’s attempts to shut down access to such care nationwide.

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Based on a Williamson County program, conservative parental rights group Moms for Liberty launched its national campaign to sow doubt in public schools last month, piling on to the school choice movement by attacking CRT, DEI and now SEL in public schools. nashvillebanner.com/2025/02/06/m...

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Vanderbilt University has quietly removed diversity-related materials from its websites, including an “Inclusivity, Diversity, Equity, and Accessibility” statement from the Heard Libraries "About" page. The moves appear to be part of a campus-wide initiative, but school officials would not comment.

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Tennessee lawmakers are considering another immigration bill, despite acknowledging it contradicts a decades-old Supreme Court decision. It’s part of an emerging theme of top state Republicans inviting court challenges on “bold” policies that challenge legal precedent.

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Tennessee's top three export markets are, in order, Canada, Mexico and China. Source: ustr.gov/map/state-be...

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The ACLU of Tennessee and the Metro Council Immigrant Caucus are already threatening lawsuits against Tennessee’s new immigration bill, which could jail local officials. nashvillebanner.com/2025/01/31/t...

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BREAKING NEWS: Research and basic information on subjects ranging from tuberculosis surveillance to adolescent health disappeared from federal health agency websites.

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In other news this week: Three bills to strengthen penalties for unlawful photography and make it easier for victims to press charges and get orders of protection have been filed, largely driven by these Nashville women. They have also identified the final victim, again without police.

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A lot happened in this week's special legislative session. Here's a roundup, starting with Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee's $447 million universal school voucher plan passing, despite 20 Republican lawmakers splitting with their party to oppose the legislation: (1/7) nashvillebanner.com/2025/01/31/t...

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The House will vote this morning

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Last week, the Trump administration imposed a wide range of restrictions on the National Institutes of Health, which funds biomedical research for cancer, infectious diseases and more. In 2023, TN received more than $770 million in NIH grants. This funding now faces major uncertainty.

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