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Admissions to Jackson Senior Home Suspended by State
Press release from the Tennessee Department of Health; May 14, 2012: NASHVILLE, Tenn. – Tennessee Department of Health Commissioner John Dreyzehner, MD, MPH, has suspended new admissions of residents to Jackson Street Care Home effective May 9, 2012. A special monitor has been appointed to review the facility’s operations
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State officials have officially changed the way schools are held accountable this week by doing away with the legal strings that tied Tennessee to the federal No Child Left Behind program. Gov. Bill Haslam signed into law provisions that allow the state to grade schools on a different rubric following the U.S.
Continue reading …Press Release from Planned Parenthood Greater Memphis Region , May 11, 2012: Tennessee has the tenth highest rate of teenage births in the United States. At Planned Parenthood Greater Memphis Region, we hear every day from young people who say they were never taught the facts about sex and pregnancy prevention. That’s why we were especially disappointed today to hear that Governor Bill Haslam had signed a bill that guts the state’s “family life” sexuality education program
Continue reading …Press release from the Tennessee Department of Health; May 4, 2012: NASHVILLE – The Great Tennessee Air Show, set for May 12 & 13 in Smyrna, is a wonderful opportunity to see some amazing aircraft.
Continue reading …Press release from the Tennessee Department of Safety & Homeland Security; May 8, 2012: NASHVILLE — May is Motorcycle Safety Awareness Month, and the Tennessee Department of Safety and Homeland Security and Tennessee Highway Patrol are encouraging motorists to exercise caution in response to the rise in motorcycle fatalities in the state and across the nation this year. Motorcycle fatalities accounted for 12.0 percent of total fatalities within Tennessee in 2011
Continue reading …Newsletter from the Tennessee Transgender Political Coalition ; May 4, 2012: Knoxville Bans Discrimination; Tennessee General Assembly Adjourns The Tennessee Transgender Political Coalition (TTPC) is pleased that the Knoxville City Council passed the proposed non discrimination ordinance unanimously. We appreciate all of you who stepped up by contacting your Council members and urging them to ban discrimination in City Government against transgender, lesbian, gay, and bisexual employees. We especially wish to express our gratitude to the Mayor, Madeleine Rogero, for her inspired leadership on this issue
Continue reading …Press release from the Office of Gov. Bill Haslam ; May 2, 2012: NASHVILLE – Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam released the following statements regarding HB 3540/SB 3345 and HB 3576/SB 3597.
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The Tennessee General Assembly has adjourned for the year after the shortest session in recent memory, sending lawmakers home to begin raising money and wooing voters in their newly drawn districts ahead of the primary elections in August. Republican speakers from both the House and the Senate, Beth Harwell and Lt. Gov
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