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TDCI extends license due date to June 30
NASHVILLE — The Tennessee Department of Commerce and Insurance (TDCI) reminds its licensees that the Tennessee Department of Revenue has extended the deadline to file and pay professional privilege tax to June 30. The professional privilege tax, usually due on June 1, is an annual occupation tax imposed on people with an active Tennessee license or […]
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Carolyn Bahm - Posted in Business, News, Tennessee
Jun, 22, 2017
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Schools can compete for environmental dollars
Schools can promote environmental stewardship, win cash and vie for the honor of becoming an Eastman Good Sports Always Recycle Environmental Steward School. Eastman and the University of Tennessee (UT) are kicking off the 24th annual Good Sports Always Recycle (GSAR) school challenge. Schools are invited to showcase their environmental programs for a chance to […]
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- Posted in Education, Environment, Tennessee
- Jun, 14, 2017
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TN joins $18.5M settlement with Target over 2013 data breach
Attorney General Herbert H. Slatery III recently announced that Tennessee has joined 46 other states and the District of Columbia in an $18.5 million settlement with Target Corporation to resolve the states’ investigation into the retail company’s 2013 data breach. The settlement represents the largest ever multistate data breach settlement. The states’ investigation, led by […]
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- Posted in Business, News, Public Safety, Tennessee
- Jun, 08, 2017
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Lawmakers adjourn after passing budget, key bills
The 2017 session of the 110th General Assembly has adjourned to become a part of Tennessee history with some of the most important bills of the year being approved during the final week of legislative action. This includes the passage of the $37 billion state budget. It proposes state government spending for the next fiscal […]
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- Posted in Columns, Legislative, Opinion, Tennessee
- May, 18, 2017
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ECS student earns spot in National Geographic Bee
Simeon Betapudi, a 7th-grader at Evangelical Christian School, recently won the Tennessee National Geographic State Bee. This accomplishment qualified him to represent Tennessee in the national bee that took place May 14-17 at National Geographic’s Washington, D.C., headquarters. Although Betapudi didn’t make it to the finals in this week’s national competition, his first-place achievement among Tennessee students earned him $5,000 […]
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- Posted in Collierville, Education, News, Private Schools, Tennessee
- May, 11, 2017
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$14M in funding to help combat opioid abuse in Tennessee
On Wednesday, April 19, Secretary of Health and Human Services Tom Price announced Tennessee will soon receive nearly $14 million in funding to combat opioid abuse — the first of two rounds of funding to be delivered as part of the 21st Century Cures Act that I sponsored and the president signed into law last year. […]
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- Posted in Columns, Health, Legislative, Opinion, Tennessee
- May, 07, 2017
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Senate committees focus on state budget
As the 2017 session of the Tennessee General Assembly gets closer to adjournment, Senate committee action last week primarily centered on the state budget. The Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee received Governor Bill Haslam’s amended budget proposal on April 25, and it makes several improvements and adjustments to the original plan submitted to lawmakers […]
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- Posted in Columns, Legislative, Opinion, Tennessee
- May, 04, 2017
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Senate HELP Committee works on health, online taxes, nominations
We had a busy week in Washington last week (April 23-29), especially in the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee that I chair. The committee passed four bipartisan public health bills. We also voted to recommend Dr. Scott Gottlieb favorably to be the new commissioner for the Food and Drug Administration, which is responsible […]
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- Posted in Columns, Legislative, News, Opinion, Tennessee
- May, 04, 2017
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See a rare pygmy rattlesnake? Snap a pic
NASHVILLE — The Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency is asking anyone who spots a pygmy rattlesnake in the wild to snap a pic. The TWRA is assisting wildlife biologists at Tennessee State University in research to determine how the threatened species is distributed across the state. The research will help conservation efforts. Pygmy rattlesnakes are predators that […]
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- Posted in News, Tennessee
- Apr, 27, 2017
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TWRA addresses invasive carp and whitetail deer strategy
NASHVILLE — The March meeting of the Tennessee Fish and Wildlife Commission included an Asian cap update by Frank Fiss, Chief of Fisheries, on how these fish that have invaded Tennessee’s waterways. Wild populations of black, grass, bighead, and silver carp have established populations in the Mississippi River, and grass, silver and bighead carp have […]
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- Posted in Hunting and Fishing, News, Tennessee
- Apr, 20, 2017
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Americans for Prosperity condemns committee passage of gas tax hike
NASHVILLE — Americans for Prosperity Tennessee (AFP-TN), an advocate for taxpayers, has been connecting grassroots groups across Tennessee to stop the gas tax hike. Thousands of concerned citizens have contacted legislators through phone calls and emails opposed to the tax increase. After the bill passed the legislative committee hurdle, AFP-TN State Director Andy Ogles released […]
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- Posted in Columns, Opinion, Tennessee
- Apr, 20, 2017
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FALSE SIGHTING: Video didn’t show suspect
C’ville sighting of supposed kidnapper dismissed by TBI. An update from the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation late Thursday afternoon revealed that a man spotted on surveillance video in Collierville today was not Tad Cummins, a suspect on Tennessee’s Most Wanted List. The 50-year-old is suspected of kidnapping his former student, 15-year-old Elizabeth Thomas. Mid-day reports of […]
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- Posted in Amber Alerts, Collierville, News, Police, Public Safety, Tennessee, Tennessee Bureau of Investigation
- Mar, 30, 2017
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