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Credit Blake Farmer / WPLN News Tennessee lawmakers rarely debate consequential legislation in the first few days of a session. But the General Assembly is forgoing precedent to alter how the state’s Medicaid program receives federal funding, and in the process will be altering roughly a third of the state budget before the Biden administration takes over. Passage is a given. The same Republican majority told TennCare to seek this so-called “block grant” for Medicaid, which has been a dream of conservatives. Now that dream is nearly reality. But in less than a week, the country will h...

Washington County commissioners are being asked to back efforts to return an important piece of the county’s history to Jonesborough. Ned Irwin, Washington County’s archivist, said the county is working to retrieve its very first property deed book, “Deed Book A,” which was sent to Nashville in 1897 as part of its contribution to the Tennessee Centennial Celebration. The deed book was eventually moved to the Tennessee State Library and Archives, where it remains today. The historical document is a 1830s copy of Washington County’s original deed book, which was created...

A number of notable community activists, elected officials and business leaders have died in the past year.