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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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Tennessee public health clinics will no longer give teens access to routine healthcare — including birth control, sexually transmitted infection treatment and pregnancy tests — without parental consent, according to the Department of Health’s interpretation of a new parental rights law that took effect July 1.
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Privatizing inspections was a priority of Gov. Bill Lee, who touted his 35 years in the construction industry as driving the law to “streamline” projects
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How are Tennessee kids doing? It depends to a large extent on which part of the state they grow up in, according to a new report analyzing child well-being in each of the state’s 95 counties.
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The Tennessee Department of Children’s Services, already facing a class action lawsuit over its treatment of disabled kids, is placing children with no known disability diagnoses for months at a time in privately-run group homes designed to support adults with disabilities, according to child advocates.
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Department of Children’s Services continues investigation; most of the children had prior contact with the agency.
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The program, formerly known as food stamps, serves the poorest Tennessee residents; some have gone without for months
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Families say they feel pressured by state officials who emphasize the needs of children in state custody over disabled adults.
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Nearly half of all Tennessee working families cannot afford the basic cost of living in their counties, according to new analyses of Census and federal economic data by the United Way of Tennessee.
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Tennessee Attorney General Jonathan Skrmetti is leading a coalition of 21 Republican states in issuing a warning to the American Bar Association against requiring law schools to consider race in hiring and admissions.
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In a blistering and unanimous opinion, the judges called TWRA’s legal defense of its tactics a “disturbing assertion of power on behalf of government”