Haslam leaves open possibility of vetoing bill to protect Confederate monuments
Gov. Bill Haslam is leaving open the possibility of vetoing a bill inspired by City of Memphis’ moves to remove Confederate monuments from local parks and aimed at preventing any such actions in the...
View ArticleHaslam declines to sign (or veto) legislation authorizing moving bodies of...
Gov. Bill Haslam has declined to sign a resolution giving the legislature’s approval to moving the bodies of former President James K. Polk and his wife, Sarah, from the state Capitol grounds to his...
View ArticleJudge rules Memphis maneuver to remove Confederate statutes was legal
Davidson County Chancellor Ellen Hobbs Lyle ruled Wednesday that the City of Memphis had a legal right to sell two city parks to a nonprofit organization that then removed Confederate monuments from...
View ArticleNew book on history of slavery in Tennessee
“History Bill,” as former Tennessean reporter Bill Carey is known in overseeing the non-profit Tennessee History For Kids organization, has waded through hundreds of old newspaper archives to produce a...
View ArticleReport says 110 Confederate memorials removed since 2015 — including eight in...
The Southern Poverty Law Center has produced a report saying 110 monuments, place names and other memorials or symbols tied to the Confederacy and its leaders have been removed nationwide since 2015,...
View ArticleMTSU building will remain named after Confederate Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest
Middle Tennessee State University President Sidney A. McPhee said Wednesday there will be no appeal of a Tennessee Historical Commission decision rejecting MTSU’s request to change the name of a campus...
View ArticleSenate votes to expand Shiloh National Military Park
Press release from Sen. Lamar Alexander WASHINGTON, June 7, 2018 – United States Senator Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) today said the Senate’s passage of his bill to expand the Shiloh National Military...
View ArticleMatlock radio ad cites Burchett vote for Democrat as state Senate speaker,...
A radio ad unveiled today by state Rep. Jimmy Matlock’s campaign notes his leading opponent in the Republican 2nd Congressional District primary, Knox County Mayor Tim Burchett, voted as a state...
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Capitol Commission: Not so fast on Polk move
Gov. Bill Haslam attends a ceremony at the James K. Polk tomb in Nashville on Nov. 2, 2012. (Image credit: Gov. Bill Haslam’s office) (A report from on our James K. Polk correspondent J.R. Lind) The...
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The Tennessee legislature in 1879: Secret meetings, prison outsourcing,...
Taking a page from sports broadcasters showing archived games to make up for the lack of live programming during the COVID-19 pandemic, the TNJ: On the Hill blog is engaging in our own throwback...
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