Sam Stockard
Sam Stockard is a veteran Tennessee reporter and editor with the Tennessee Lookout, having written for the Daily News Journal in Murfreesboro, where he served as lead editor when the paper won an award for being the state's best Sunday newspaper two years in a row. He has led the Capitol Hill bureau for The Daily Memphian. His awards include Best Single Editorial from the Tennessee Press Association.
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A group of Tennessee Republican senators is urging the governor to commission an independent review of a failed execution and correct any problems before the state attempts another execution. -
Student First Technologies receives boost despite questions about performance in other states -
When Tennessee voters go to the polls in November, they’ll see three constitutional amendment questions on the ballot, two of them dealing with crime and punishment and the other with banning a state property tax. -
The Tennessee House voted narrowly Monday to expand the state’s private-school voucher program, capping it at 35,000 for next year but putting it at odds with the Senate’s proposal. -
A fight is brewing over Tennessee legislation designed to bring more transparency to the state’s new private-school voucher program. -
Key Tennessee lawmakers are taking different views toward Gov. Bill Lee’s desire to expand the state’s new private-school voucher program. -
A three-judge panel has ruled that Tennessee’s laws against the “intent to go armed” and carrying weapons in state parks are unconstitutional. -
Gov. Bill Lee confirmed the state will not require the Boring Company to pay for land it uses to build a series of tunnels under Nashville to the airport and other destinations. -
Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee said Wednesday he is ready to deploy National Guard troops to Washington, D.C. as part of President Donald Trump’s federal takeover of the police force there.
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School Freedom Fund targets Barrett for opposition to private school vouchers
