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A Tennessee bill limiting the authority of local health boards during a public health crisis cleared the House on Monday afternoon with a 67-26 vote.  HB7, sponsored by Rep. Jason Zachary, R-Knoxville, stems from some Knox County officials' disagreement with the Knox County Board of Health over policies it enacted to curb the spread of COVID-19. The board, mostly made up of medical experts, implemented an indoor mask mandate early in the pandemic and later a curfew on restaurants and bars. Zachary's bill would make boards of health simply advisory bodies during a state of emergency. Un...

Under the bill, a commissioner would be considered present as long as they are "visually identified" by the chair of the governing body. The legislation does not include a provision requiring them to appear in front of the public on video, Briggs said, because some counties may not have the technology, and he hopes to respect officials' privacy if they are not presentable.  "Maybe they were in a bad car wreck if their faces were really smashed up," he said. "Some of the counties (also) just technologically may not be able to do it." But the bill language does not address the amount of public...

For Turku, Finland-based Fairspectrum, the 3.5GHz CBRS band in the US represents an opportunity to bring its expertise in dynamic spectrum access to a bigger market. The company, which also has offices in London and Boston, filed an application with the FCC a few years ago to become a spectrum access system (SAS) provider for the CBRS band. It's still waiting for an answer. Fairspectrum isn't alone. It is one of a handful of companies that are part of a second wave of SAS providers. These companies have filed paperwork with the FCC to become SAS providers but are waiting for FCC approval to ...

2 months ago in Agriculture tomr Photo: WNAX The Independent Cattlemen of Nebraska have come out in opposition to a pair of brand bills, LB 571 and LB 572 before the Nebraska Legislature. ICON Director and Past President Dave Wright says it’s a matter of economics as both measures contain high fee increases for cattle producers. He says while those bills increase fees for cow-calf producers it brings all the benefits to registered feedlots. Wright says while ICON is against both LB 571 AND 572, they’re in...

Del Fuego is part of the Krewe of House Floats’ Audubon Riverside subkrewe. Two more storefront floats have appeared along Magazine Street this week – at Del Fuego Taquería and McEnery Residential. One is part of the Krewe of House Floats subkrewe for the Audubon Riverside neighborhood, and the other joined up with the Krewe of Read Beans’ “Hire a Mardi Gras Artist” project.  Chef Dave Wright at Del Fuego Taquería summed up their decision to make a storefront float this way: “We’re all really going to miss the parades this year, so when the Krewe of House Floats was formed, w...