Category Archives: Columns

The evidence is clear: Private school vouchers are a bad investment for Shelby County Schools

The Coalition of Large School Systems (CLASS), which includes the Shelby, Davidson, Knox and Hamilton [...]

Fleeting bliss shackles heroin users to a corrosive habit

[Editor’s note: This is the third in a series of columns on the perils of [...]

Euphoria of heroin plunges into hell on earth

[Editor’s note: This is the second in a series of columns on the perils of [...]

Senate committees focus on state budget

As the 2017 session of the Tennessee General Assembly gets closer to adjournment, Senate committee [...]

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 [...]

‘Living on Purpose’: With God, it’s all about our attitude

We know how important it is to have a good attitude and the correct motives, [...]

Parents can guide, but children make their own choices

How many parents have waited for the day when their child’s eyes would suddenly be [...]

Dr. Scott Gottlieb is right candidate to lead FDA

The Senate health committee, which I chair, held the confirmation hearing the first week in [...]

Background on school vouchers

Sen. Brian Kelsey (R-Germantown), sponsor of the latest Senate school voucher bill (SB0161), declined to [...]

Senate acts on major bills of 2017 session

NASHVILLE — The Senate continued to make progress last week in winding down the 2017 legislative [...]

Bartlett, Arlington, Lakeland school districts oppose voucher bill

Editor’s note: This opinion piece was provided on April 13 upon our request to the [...]

Legislative committee approves bridge repairs

Legislation prioritizing the repair of structurally-deficient bridges in Tennessee was unanimously approved by the Senate [...]