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Independent Nashville candidate files complaint alleging Senate election fraud
An independent Tennessee Senate candidate alleges ballot manipulation skewed election results in the Senate District 21 race last fall in a complaint under a review by an ad hoc Senate committee. Rueben Dockery, who lost to District 21 Democratic incumbent
Read moreCandace Owens, Trump, the truth about COVID vaccine and itchy-eared conservatives | Smith
Columnist Cameron Smith is a Memphis-born, Brentwood-raised recovering political attorney raising three boys in Nolensville, Tennessee. Candace Owens’s recent interview with former President Donald Trump didn’t go as planned. Instead of sharing in the commentator’s skepticism of COVID-19 vaccines, the former
Read moreLegislation challenging Tennessee’s 2020 election results unlikely to advance
Editor’s note: This story has been updated to correct the name of the spokesperson for the Tennessee secretary of state. More than a year after Democrat Joe Biden’s presidential victory and months after multiple audits certifying Biden’s win in several
Read moreTennessee lawmakers are doing more harm with special session on COVID rules | Editorial
This editorial was written on behalf of The Tennessean Editorial Board by Opinion and Engagement Director David Plazas. Tennessee is trying to recover from the deadly delta COVID surge which brought the state’s death toll to more than 16,000 citizens. But
Read moreInside the COVID ICU: doctors, nurses face more hostility than ever before from unvaccinated patients
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Read moreGov. Bill Lee aide warns legislators against vaccine ‘conspiracy theories’ by right-wing groups
Gov. Bill Lee’s office cautioned legislators on Thursday against “conspiracy theories” circulating in conservative circles, including false claims that Lee is opening “quarantine camps” and having the National Guard force vaccines on citizens. An email obtained by The Tennessean that was
Read moreTennessee’s elected officials should stop hindering the fight against COVID-19 | Opinion
Heidi Campbell, D-Oak Hill, represents District 20 in the Tennessee Senate. In June, several lawmakers excoriated Dr. Lisa Piercey, Tennessee’s commissioner of health, during a government oversight meeting. Her purported crime? Encouraging newly eligible Tennesseans to get vaccinated from COVID-19.
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