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It is time to stop talking about Roe as the touchstone for abortion rights and to start imagining what law and policy can do to facilitate affordable and available services.

Governor Bill Lee allowed a bill effectively punishing homelessness to become law in the state without his signature.

Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee has declined to sign off on a proposal criminalizing camping by homeless people and others in parks and on other local public property.

Many bills and laws, if Jesus had lived under them, would have made him a criminal. Why do so many Christians support them?

Anthony Beckett, Pleasanton

A bill that would criminalize sleeping in a public park is now in the hands of Gov. Bill Lee, and in response, 250 faith leaders across Tennessee wrote a letter asking him to veto the legislation.

After a two-year hiatus from providing in-house activities, the Darb Snyder Senior Center in Millersburg is slowly returning to some sense of normalcy

Journalist Daud Khan selected for Oxford Climate Journalism Network

A new bill is stirring up an old debate about homelessness. Those living in tents or under tarps on public property could soon be charged with a crime. This comes after the bill failed to make it out of the legislature last year.

Tennessee Republican lawmakers passed legislation to make camping on public property a misdemeanor crime, which critics say criminalizes homelessness.