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An Activist’s Guide to our Legislature

Hillsboro Globe Reporter – Jonah Lehmann, Legislation Reporter March 4, 2024

Keeping track of what our lawmakers are doing is incredibly important. The problem is it can be dizzying for many to understand what everything means. What is a committee vs. a subcommittee, what is tabling...

Legislative Logs: A guide to current TN proposed legislation | Week of 2/19

Legislative Logs: A guide to current TN proposed legislation | Week of 2/19

Hillsboro Globe Reporter – Jonah Lehmann, Legislative Reporter February 22, 2024

Here is this week's update on the Tennessee State Legislature. This week we are seeing bills increase penalties for blocking roads during a protest and a proposed bill that would ban phones in classrooms. The...

Legislation Log: A guide to current TN proposed legislation | Week of 2/12

Legislation Log: A guide to current TN proposed legislation | Week of 2/12

Hillsboro Globe Reporter – Jonah Lehmann, Reporter February 16, 2024

Check out these top bills for this week's edition of Legislative Logs. Bills highlighted this week that everyone should be aware of are being debated concern flag bans, running for multiple offices, and...

Legislation Log: A guide to current TN proposed legislation

Legislation Log: A guide to current TN proposed legislation

Hillsboro Globe Reporter – Jonah Lehmann, Legislative Reporter February 8, 2024

On January 6th the Tennessee State General Assembly began their 2024 legislative session at the capitol in Nashville. Just one month in and hundreds of bills from gun control to new laws on bodycams to...

HIllsboro High School student, Gillian Hester, poses infront of the Tennessee State Capitol  on Thursday, march 30th at a March for your Lives to protest gun law change following the Covenant School mass shoot.

Tennessee Legislature Faces Criticism for Inaction During Special Session

Hillsboro Globe Reporter – Jonah Lehmann, Politics Desk October 26, 2023

Crowds erupted into shouting and chanting from the State of Tennessee Capital galleries overlooking the House of Representatives floor as Tennessee’s special legislative session came to a chaotic close...

A black student was suspended for his hairstyle. Now his family is suing Texas officials

A black student was suspended for his hairstyle. Now his family is suing Texas officials

Hillsboro Globe Reporter – Arnez Anderson, Contributing Writer October 2, 2023

HOUSTON (AP) — The family of a Black high school student in Texas who was suspended over his dreadlocks filed a federal civil rights lawsuit Saturday against the state's governor and attorney general,...

What we know about the Covenant school shooting in Nashville

What we know about the Covenant school shooting in Nashville

Hillsboro Globe Reporter – Associated Press Reports, Writer March 28, 2023

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Six people were killed at a small, private Christian school just south of downtown Nashville on Monday after a shooter opened fire inside the building of about 200 students,...

March 27, 2023, Mass Shooting Aftermath

March 27, 2023, Mass Shooting Aftermath

Hillsboro Globe Reporter – Margo Jenkins, Editor March 28, 2023

A makeshift memorial is seen at the entry to Covenant School with a police car guarding, on Tuesday, March 28, 2023, in Nashville, Tenn. The former student who shot through the doors of the Christian...

Seven Football Rule changes for the 2023 season

Seven Football Rule changes for the 2023 season

February 3, 2023

HillsboroFB_7_PCHS_14_9.25.20 (Rights Reserved-Hillsboro Globe; Associated Press Susan Strasinger)FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE INDIANAPOLIS, IN (February 3, 2023) – A  notable change to Rule 10 of the NFHS...

TSSAA Board of Control meets regarding high school classifications

TSSAA Board of Control meets regarding high school classifications

Hillsboro Globe Reporter – TSSAA August 16, 2022

August 15, 2022 LEBANON- The TSSAA Board of Control met on Monday, August 15 at the Wilson County Board of Education Administrative & Training Complex in Lebanon. The Board discussed classification...

Trace of ‘bone-crushing’ dog found at Tennessee fossil site

Hillsboro Globe Reporter – Associated Press News Desk August 10, 2022

JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. (AP) — East Tennessee State University says researchers have discovered evidence of the extinct “bone-crushing” dog at a fossil site that also included herbivores, a sabretooth...

Tennessee GOP leaders urge delay of toddler COVID-19 shots

Tennessee GOP leaders urge delay of toddler COVID-19 shots

June 24, 2022
Top Tennessee Republican House leaders on Wednesday urged Gov. Bill Lee to delay the state's health department from distributing and promoting the COVID-19 vaccines to infants, toddlers and preschoolers. In a letter sent to the Republican governor, House leaders said they had too many concerns surrounding the vaccine for those under 5 years old.
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