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Sen. Bo Watson, R-Hixson, and Rep. David Hawk, R-Greeneville, are members of the 112th Tennessee General Assembly. Among the most important pieces of legislation this year was the Tennessee Opportunity Act, which establishes a long overdue, responsible and responsive approach to administering Tennessee’s annual federal block grant of Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) dollars.  Key provisions of the bill which we championed will establish a reasonable TANF reserve, deploy the funds to where the need is, and through rigorous evaluation will ensure we ultimately scale up what wo...

April 8, 2021 East Nashville resident Richie Townsend struggled to find work after losing his restaurant job when the COVID-19 pandemic struck in March 2020. Subscribe Townsend, 39, a former bartender at Rolf and Daughters in Germantown, has been on and off state and federal unemployment programs for a year but still has more benefits pending after being laid off a third time. As he starts a new job in Franklin, the state tells him it is expediting his request, and he's reached out to his state House member but hasn't gotten any payments on this latest extension. Subscribe Life could get ev...

Environmental News For The Week Ending 03 April 2019 This is a collection of interesting news articles about the environment and related topics published last week. This is usually a Tuesday evening regular post at GEI (but can be posted at other times). Please share this article - Go to very top of page, right hand side, for social media buttons. Note: Because of the high volume of news regarding the coronavirus outbreak, that news has been published separately: There hasn't been much change in the trajectory of either US Covid metric: new cases continue to increase at a modest pace, while...

Nashville Tennessean Tennessee’s Republican lawmakers are speeding toward final votes on a landmark TennCare transformation by Friday in hopes of making it harder for President-elect Joe Biden to reverse the decision after he takes office next week. Lawmakers in both the House and the Senate plan to vote on a joint resolution adopting a proposal to convert billions of federal TennCare funding to a block grant. Votes come about a week after the administration of President Donald Trump approved the block grant plan as part of a 10-year Medicaid waiver in the final days days of his pr...