Tag: Hawkins County

Johnson County Commission Sets Date to Vote on Interim State Representative for District 3

Kaitlin Housler

The Johnson County Board of Commissioners have called to convene a special meeting on Thursday, May 11 to consider and appoint the interim successor for the office of State Representative for District 3.

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The Would-Be ‘State of Franklin’ That Never Officially Existed

Gregory Watson

The United States Constitution does, of course, contain guidelines as to how a territory may enter the Union as a full-fledged state on an equal footing with all previously-existing states.  The last time that any new states were added to the United States was in the year 1959 when Alaska…

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