Anita Wadhwani
Senior ReporterAnita Wadhwani is a senior reporter for the Tennessee Lookout. The Tennessee AP Broadcasters and Media (TAPME) named her Journalist of the Year in 2019 as well as giving her the Malcolm Law Award for Investigative Journalism. Wadhwani is formerly an investigative reporter with The Tennessean who focused on the impact of public policies on the people and places across Tennessee. She is a graduate of Columbia University in New York and the University of California at Berkeley School of Journalism. Wadhwani lives in Nashville with her partner and two children.
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The closure of a longstanding legal clinic operated by the Tennessee Coalition to End Domestic and Sexual Violence comes as the Trump administration ties new strings to victim funding -
Abrego, who the government admitted was wrongly deported to El Salvador, faces two human smuggling charges in Nashville federal court -
Environmental groups say eliminating a roadless rule that has protected forestland puts backcountry recreation, wildlife and clean water ‘on the chopping block’ -
A grand jury indictment, unsealed Friday, alleges Garcia, smuggled immigrants through Tennessee and other states -
Proposed cuts in federal healthcare spending on Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act could force more than 250,000 Tennesseans to join the ranks of the uninsured, an analysis by the Kaiser Family Foundation found.
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Foster kids in Tennessee are being denied the basic right to education, healthcare and stable homes and instead kept in unsafe institutions or bounced through multiple foster families for years at time, a lawsuit filed Monday on behalf of 13 children alleges. -
A 2024 law that requires parental consent for medical care given to minors does not make an exception for rape exams; a bill this year to guarantee access failed in the Legislature. -
The GOP-backed bill would dissolve the Tennessee Human Rights Commission, which investigates discrimination complaints. -
The bill nevertheless earned the vote of 8 Republicans to advance out of a Tennessee House committee Monday -
More than two dozen Chattanooga-area business owners condemning the legislation live in the district represented by Sen. Bo Watson, its chief sponsor
