Breaking: @JenniferShutt reports the bipartisan debt limit bill is on its way to President Joe Biden after the U.S. Senate voted Thursday to clear the measure for his signature. Sen. Marsha Blackburn voted against it. tennesseelookout.com/2023/06/01/u-s…

Here's another story by Kathy Carlson @TNLookout No one wants @AliveHospice to go for-profit except current insiders. Everyone else is against it, inc it's own Advisory Board. Crafty advisors are saying that @AGTennessee never turns down conversion. 15/ tennesseelookout.com/briefs/support…

Three Metro Nashville councilmembers have filed a second lawsuit challenging a new state law that makes it easier to gain Metro Council approval for new racetrack at @RaceFairgrounds, reports @anitawadhwani. tennesseelookout.com/2023/06/01/sec…

Tennessee's U.S. Sens. Marsha Blackburn and Bill Hagerty voted with the 52-46 majority to overturn the Biden administration’s one-time student debt relief plain. @ArianaLFigueroa reports. tennesseelookout.com/2023/06/01/u-s…

Analysis: 3rd-grade reading scores by school districts in Tennessee tennesseelookout.com/2023/05/31/ana… via @TNLookout

John Cole's Tennessee: Cade Cothren, indicted chief of staff to former House Speaker Glen Casada (also under indictment), is alleging current Speaker Cameron Sexton paid him through a shadowy campaign vendor at the root of a federal case. cc: @ColeToon

The governor’s proposal enabling law enforcement to confiscate weapons from unstable people is likely to go down in flames during a special session. via @TNLookout @stockard_sam newsfromthestates.com/article/govern…

The Tennessee attorney general is joining a former college swimmer for an anti-trans "celebration" at the Hermitage Hotel on Monday. Organizers are touting the hotel's role in the ratification of the 19th amendment.

Governor’s order of protection plan faces tough road in special session tennesseelookout.com/2023/06/01/gov… via @TNLookout

U.S. House approves debt limit package, sending it to Senate days before default deadline tennesseelookout.com/2023/05/31/u-s… via @TNLookout

In "Blackburn's Tinky Winky moment," columnist @Harmon4Congress writes that U.S. Sen. Marsha Blackburn ventured into the absurd with a five-page letter to Anheuser Busch complaining about a partnership with a transgender actress. tennesseelookout.com/2023/06/01/bla…

On eve of the 70th anniversary of the transformative 1954 ruling, a new proposal would replace the Brown v. Board of Education label with that of Briggs v. Elliott. via @KansasReflector @TimVCarpenter newsfromthestates.com/article/idea-l…

Talk of the so-called Covenant School “manifesto” is a red herring: a distraction floated by Tennessee conservative lawmakers as an excuse for their failure to take any meaningful action on gun reform. Commentary by @jhollymc of @TNLookout kentuckylantern.com/2023/06/01/red…

Sumner County 'Constitutional Republicans' elected to the local commission last August continue to make controversial moves. The latest: They are poised to scrap the county's human resources department HR directory calls it a 'travesty' tennesseelookout.com/2023/06/01/sum… via @TNLookout

One of many things I love about @TNLookout is its focus on local government issues too often ignored by other media outlets. Here's a great example by @anitawadhwani tennesseelookout.com/2023/06/01/sum…

Tennessee Governor’s order of protection plan faces tough road in special session tennesseelookout.com/2023/06/01/gov… via @TNLookout

The latest controversial step by the Sumner County Commission's slate of "constitutional Republicans" is a move to dissolve the county's Human Resource and fire its director. @anitawadhwani reports. tennesseelookout.com/2023/06/01/sum…

Senior Reporter @StockardSam reports prospects look dim for Gov. Bill Lee's August special session on gun safety, with House Speaker Cameron Sexton saying a red flag law "won't pass the House." tennesseelookout.com/2023/06/01/gov…

“We need to train as many young people as we can in the tradition that broke the back of American apartheid." - @RevSekou tennesseelookout.com/2023/05/30/ten…

The U.S. House took a broadly bipartisan vote Wednesday night on the debt limit package. Tennessee Republicans @RepMarkGreen, @RepDavidKustoff and @RepChuck joined Democrat @RepCohen in voting for it. tennesseelookout.com/2023/05/31/u-s…

Alabama has the worst public records law in the nation, and it's not particularly close. #alpolitics twitter.com/ALReflector/st…

My story about the Tennessee Student Solidarity Network for @TNLookout made the national @statesnewsroom newsletter! tennesseelookout.com/2023/05/30/ten…

More on the mayor's race, specifically former Mayor Willie Herenton... twitter.com/DailyMemphian/…

From Senior Reporter @StockardSam: The State of Tennessee will extend a contract with private prison company CoreCivic, giving it an $8 million boost despite lawsuits alleging inmate deaths. tennesseelookout.com/2023/05/31/sta…

Tennessee plans to extend a private prison company’s contract with an $8 million raise annually to run a state penitentiary in spite of lawsuits alleging it caused inmate deaths. via @TNLookout @stockard_sam newsfromthestates.com/article/state-…

Comptroller: Ex-director of publicly-funded Tennessee police chief group spent $60k on booze, meals tennesseelookout.com/2023/05/30/com… via @TNLookout

Comptroller: Ex-director of publicly-funded Tennessee police chief group spent $60k on booze, meals tennesseelookout.com/2023/05/30/com… via @TNLookout

From @friedmanadam5: An interactive analysis of district-by-district TCAP reading results this year versus a historical average. tennesseelookout.com/2023/05/31/ana… via @TNLookout

State set to extend CoreCivic contract despite prison deaths tennesseelookout.com/2023/05/31/sta… via @TNLookout @stockard_sam

The TCAP appeals process opened today. Originally it was slated for 14 days after the results were in, but the DoE told me today it extended that all the way to June 30th. Criteria for filing a successful appeal is below. @WKRN #TNLeg23