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Rep. Vincent Dixie, D-Nashville, plans to bring sensible gun legislation before the General Assembly but is likely to hit a brick wall.
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Rep. Vincent Dixie, D-Nashville, plans to bring sensible gun legislation before the General Assembly but is likely to hit a brick wall.
Mayor John Cooper is proposing a record $91.2 million of new funding for MNPS. This investment will fund salary step increases and a 4% cost-of-living adjustment for support staff. Plus, paid family medical leave for all MNPS employees
Support staff, union members and even students are calling for pay increases for some of the district's most essential workers.
Companies, unions, the city government and workers in Oak Ridge are reacting to the high demand but short supply of workers to fill various positions.
Proposed charter revisions would cap tax increases, make it easier to recall officials A local attorney is pushing yet another change to city law that would limit city leaders’ power to raise taxes. Attorney Jim Roberts said this week that his group has mailed more than 200,000 petitions to Nashville voters, hoping to get six proposed revisions to the Metro Charter on the ballot in May or June. Last year, Roberts and his team secured the necessary signatures to get a different version of the proposal on the ballot, but a Nashville judge deemed it illegal and said it could not go b...