Tennessee Speaker Cameron Sexton: "We’re not gonna pass a red flag law.” Story: @StockardSam tennesseelookout.com/2023/06/01/gov… via @TNLookout

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…

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

House speaker puts the hammer on governor's "red flag" bill: tennesseelookout.com/2023/06/01/gov…

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…

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

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-…

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

Comptroller: Ex-director of publicly-funded Tennessee Association of Chiefs of Police racked up $60k in credit card charges on booze, meals. She also raked in big bonuses while secretly working as a lobbyist for another organization tennesseelookout.com/2023/05/30/com… via @TNLookout

Just in from @stockard_sam Cade Cothren claims he helped Cameron Sexton win the TN speaker's race before he and his former boss, ex Speaker Glen Casada, were indicted. Cotheren is seeking to subpoena Sexton's encrypted communication records tennesseelookout.com/2023/05/26/cad…… @TNLookout

From @stockard_sam : Cade Cothren claims he helped Cameron Sexton win the House Speaker’s race. He is seeking to subpoena Sexton's communication records. Cothren and his former boss, ex House Speaker Glen Casada are both under indictment tennesseelookout.com/2023/05/26/cad… via @TNLookout

Coming off my self-imposed Twitter hiatus to make sure you all see @stockard_sam's just-published story: tennesseelookout.com/2023/05/26/cad…

Two transgender women have filed suit against the state after being denied gender affirming care under Tennessee’s public employee health benefits program, reports @anitawadhwani. tennesseelookout.com/2023/05/26/law…

Cothren claims close relationship with Speaker Sexton before indictment. Phoenix Solutions made some $200k off House GOP: tennesseelookout.com/2023/05/26/cad…

$2M audit looms over TSU President Glover: tennesseelookout.com/2023/05/26/sto…

“All we’ve done is make test manufacturers wealthy,” Bowman said. “Maybe we’re all in the wrong business.” Tennessee committee extends and increases Pearson testing contract by $40 million tennesseelookout.com/2023/05/25/ten… via @TNLookout @StockardSam @ProEdTN

@schelzig My wife lost her role model.

Lawmakers sticks with K-12 testing firm despite upheaval: tennesseelookout.com/2023/05/25/ten…

Kathy Carlson reports that a Murfreesboro foundation that has donated more than $3 million to @AliveHospice has notified organization leaders and @AGTennessee wants its money back if Alive sells to a for-profit company. tennesseelookout.com/2023/05/24/mur…

Nashville has just filed suit seeking to block a new state law lowering the votes needed to approve new NASCAR track, reports @friedmanadam5 tennesseelookout.com/2023/05/24/nas… via @TNLookout

Metro Nashville filed a lawsuit today to block a new state law making it easier for the Metro Council to approve the new racetrack proposed by Bristol Motor Speedway. The legislation reduced the votes necessary to approve the plan from 27 to 21. tennesseelookout.com/2023/05/24/nas…

Since 2010, the percent of TN third graders considered behind in reading by the state test have gone up and down like a pattern -- never dipping below 50% -- showing lawmakers and the TDOE should have known what would happen if they used this benchmark to require summer school.

Rep. Bryan Richey urges lawmakers to join him in asking Gov. Lee to cancel a special session to be held in late August.

A U.S. default on its debt would potentially reduce payments that keep millions of households afloat, as well as payments to states and providers for health care for elderly and low-income Americans. tennesseelookout.com/2023/05/22/a-d…

State leaders approved $6.78 million Monday to get students out of hotel rooms and help @UTKnoxville with housing problems -- the same issue lawmakers have blasted historically Black @TSUedu for. @stockard_sam reports. tennesseelookout.com/2023/05/23/sta…

UT-Knoxville slides by with hotel housing while TSU draws heat: tennesseelookout.com/2023/05/23/sta…

For more than a year, allegations that Johnson City, Tenn. police have protected a local businessman accused of multiple sexual assaults have roiled the city, reports @anitawadhwani. tennesseelookout.com/2023/05/22/joh…

Capitol halls are likely to be packed for the August special session, even with school starting: tennesseelookout.com/2023/05/12/sto…

@jhollymc @cashville_etc One for the Sun. Boston. Crosby, Stills and Nash, Don Henley. Nothing like Municipal.

Link to the full story, interactive chart and methodology below. Bledsoe, Hardeman, Lauderdale, Morgan and Shelby counties are the largest beneficiaries of the redistributive system because of TennCare payments and the funding of jails. tennesseelookout.com/2023/05/10/ana…