Gannett has shut down the press in Memphis for the Commercial Appeal and is now printing the paper up the road in Jackson at the Gannett-owned Jackson Sun. The move is the latest in a series of steps the corporate media giant has made to trim and consolidate operations in…
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Haslam Reduced Highway Fund Budget By 13 Percent, Grew State Budget By 20 Percent Before Proposing Gas Tax Increases
Governor Haslam reduced the Highway Fund budget by 13 percent, while he grew the State budget by 20 percent during his first six years in office. Only after he made these reductions in the Highway Fund budget did he propose the gas tax and diesel tax increases included in the…
Read MoreSchool Bus Seat Belt Legislation Passes House Committee
A bill that would require seat belts on Tennessee public school buses passed a House panel Tuesday morning. The Education Administration and Planning Committee passed the proposed legislation on a voice vote. Supporters attending the meeting clapped after the vote was taken. The measure is in response to a school…
Read MoreHaslam’s IMPROVE Act Includes Same ‘Economic Development’ That Lost Millions in TNInvestco
“A performance audit from the Tennessee Comptroller’s Office has revealed the State of Tennessee has only recovered $5.3 million of its initial $200 million investment in the TNInvestco program,” according to a statement dated November 10, 2016, under the name of Justin P. Wilson, Comptroller, referring to a performance…
Read MoreTDOT Reduces Backlog From $6 Billion to $4.7 Billion, But Total ‘Project Needs’ Grow to $10.5 Billion
The Tennessee Department of Transportation (TDOT) list of projects issued at the end of 2015 totaled $6.1 billion. The updated project list included with the 2017 IMPROVE Act, on its surface, has a bottom line figure of $10.5 billion with the backlog potion being $4.7 billion. A spreadsheet document…
Read MoreAmerican Patriots to NBC Sports: Fire Craig Calcaterra
by George Rasley, Conservative HQ Editor Those Americans who spent Easter morning at church, and then were off to a traditional family Easter dinner, may have missed the latest establishment media outrage, this time perpetrated by Craig Calcaterra, lead baseball writer for NBC Sports. Calcaterra started up a Twitter storm…
Read MoreCouncil on American Islamic Relations, Unindicted Co-Conspirator in Terror Financing, Opposes Mark Green Nomination
The Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR) a named unindicted co-conspirator in the federal 2008 Holy Land Foundation (HLF) trial, the largest terrorism financing prosecution in the U.S., is opposing President Trump’s nomination of Tennessee state Senator Mark Green for Secretary of the Army. CAIR has joined LGBT advocacy groups…
Read MoreFaith: Verse of the Day for Tuesday, April 18
VERSE OF THE DAY Be blessed and be a blessing April 18, Tuesday Colossians 2:6-7 6 Therefore, as you received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk in him, 7 rooted and built up in him and established in the faith, just as you were taught, abounding in thanksgiving.
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