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Oct 23, 2026	SpaceX records $561 million investment gain from stake in Elon Musk’s Boring Co.	SpaceX said in its quarterly financial filing that it generated an unrealized gain of $561 million from its stake in Boring Co. The tunneling venture was created inside SpaceX in 2017 and spun out a year later. Boring Co. raised $3 billion ...
Oct 2, 2026	Republicans and Democrats find a unifying target: pharmacy benefit managers	Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... By Blake Farmer, Nashville Public Radio, KFF Health News Amye Joseph says America’s political polarization has made it an “interesting time” in her Tennessee household. She and her husband, Charlie...
Jun 17, 2026	Focused on work, needed at home: A federal caregiving policy might help	Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... By Katherine Ruppelt, Nashville Public Radio, Cara Anthony, and Blake Farmer, Nashville Public Radio, KFF Health News Jill Woodrow reached a tipping point as a caregiver when her mom began struggli...
Jun 11, 2026	KDP Statement on Medical Cannabis and Rep. Jason Nemes	FRANKFORT, Ky. – Today, after Rep. Jason Nemes (R-33) threatened lawful participants in Kentucky’s medical cannabis program with criminal prosecution, Kentucky Democratic Party (KDP) Chair Colmon Elridge released the following statement: “W...
Apr 3, 2026	Even with dental insurance, you still could face a large bill	Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Blake Farmer, Nashville Public Radio, Cara Anthony, Katherine Ruppelt, Nashville Public Radio, KFF Health News Russell Anthony made eight trips to the dentist last year. The 65-year-old retiree in ...
Mar 27, 2026	Is it worth your time and money to set up an HSA?	Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... By Blake Farmer, Nashville Public Radio, Cara Anthony, Emily Siner, Nashville Public Radio, KFF Health News When Mike McKee thinks about saving money for the future, he has a few priorities. Maxing...
Sep 19, 2025	Lice pose no health threat, yet some parents push back on rules to allow affected kids in class	By Blake Farmer, Nashville Public Radio, KFF Health News Any evidence of lice was once a reason for immediate dismissal from school, not to return until the student’s head was lice-free. But what are known as “no-nit” policies have been dro...
Aug 7, 2025	Middle School Cheerleaders Made A TikTok Video Portraying A School Shooting. They Were Charged With A Crime.	This story was originally published by ProPublica. Republished under a CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 license. One afternoon in mid-September, a group of middle school girls in rural East Tennessee decided to film a TikTok video while waiting to begin che...
Jun 27, 2025	Tennessee’s Law On School Threats Ensnared Students Who Posed No Risks. Two States Passed Similar Laws.	This story was originally published by ProPublica. Republished under a CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 license. New laws in Georgia and New Mexico are requiring harsher punishments for students — or anyone else — who make threats against schools, despite g...
May 14, 2024	Zach Young poised to make history as first out LGBTQ school board member	figcaption>span]:font-sans"> Zach Young is on the brink of Tennessee school board history. The big picture: Young is completing a political comeback after losing his seat on the Metro Council in last year's election. Because...
Mar 18, 2024	New podcast examines growth of our Black music scene	When people think about Music City, cowboy hats and country twang probably spring to mind. But, of course, there's much more to music in Nashville. Why it matters: Hip-hop, R&B and soul artists also make Music City sing. Reporter J...
Mar 4, 2024	Alliance Defending Freedom Accused by Ally of ‘Disingenuous’ Lobbying at Tennessee Legislature	While praising Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito’s reasoning in a recent case to which ADF submitted an amicus brief, Fowler accused the longtime FACT ally of supplying “inconsistent” information to state legislators about the legal power ...
Mar 3, 2024	White supremacist fitness clubs are fat-shaming Trump supporters and plotting a race war	Politics White supremacist fitness clubs are fat-shaming Trump supporters and plotting a race war Alia Shoaib 2024-03-03T14:37:38Z Share icon An curved arrow pointing right. Share Facebook Icon The letter F. Facebook Email icon An envelope....
Feb 7, 2024	Health \| Surge in syphilis cases leads some providers to ration penicillin	Catherine Sweeney, WPLN \| (TNS) KFF Health News When Stephen Miller left his primary care practice to work in public health a little under two years ago, he said, he was shocked by how many cases of syphilis the clinic was treating. For dec...
Nov 8, 2023	Health \| Science says teens need more sleep. So why is it so hard to start school later?	Catherine Sweeney, WPLN \| KFF Health News (TNS) NASHVILLE, Tenn. — High school classes start so early around this city that some kids get on buses at 5:30 in the morning. Just 10% of public schools nationwide start before 7:30 a.m., accordi...
Oct 18, 2023	Combatting The Climate Crisis By Redesigning The Social Safety Net	David Helene is the founder and CEO of Beam.
Jul 13, 2023	Tennessee hits high mark in CNBC business ranking	Tennessee vaulted to No. 3 in CNBC's 2023 Top State for Business, which was released this week. The Volunteer State jumped up three spots since 2022. Why it matters: The ranking is a bragging point for politicians as well as economic d...
May 23, 2023	Cleveland to expand ShotSpotter to all five police districts	The City of Cleveland will expand ShotSpotter technology to all five of its police districts after a three-year pilot in one district on the city's southeast side, Mayor Justin Bibb announced Tuesday. Why it matters: The controversial ...
Aug 5, 2022	RESULTS: Tennessee held congressional and gubernatorial primary elections	Insider Tennessee is holding both its Republican and Democratic primary elections on Thursday. Polls closed at 7 p.m. local time and 8 p.m. ET. Maury County Mayor Andy Ogles emerged victorious in the state's 5th Congressional District ...
Jan 10, 2022	The ‘TurboTax of bankruptcy’ aims to help people in medical debt rebuild their financial lives	Never miss a story: Follow your favorite topics and authors to get a personalized email with the journalism that matters most to you. An unplanned and complicated pregnancy pushed Carlazjion Constant of Smyrna, Tenn., to the financial brink...
Oct 22, 2021	Worn-out nurses hit the road for better pay, stressing hospital budgets — and morale	In parts of the country where covid-19 continues to fill hospitals, a rotating cast of traveling nurses helps keep intensive care units fully staffed. Hospitals have to pay handsomely to get that temporary help, and those higher wages are t...
Oct 17, 2021	A Tennessee judge created and used policies – and a non-existent law – to jail children, investigation finds	Judge Donna Scott Davenport is accused of creating policies that led to children being illegally arrested and detained. rutherfordcountytn.gov A juvenile court judge implemented policies that permitted jailing and detaining children, many o...
Dec 3, 2020	As hospitals fill with Covid-19 patients, medical reinforcements are hard to find	The typical workaround for staffing shortages — hiring clinicians from out of town — isn’t the solution anymore, even though it helped ease the strain early in the pandemic, when the first surge of cases was concentrated in a handful of “ho...
Sep 29, 2020	A startup has doctors watch people take at-home coronavirus tests over their computers because that's what the FDA requires. It's helping the NBA, Goldman Sachs, and SpaceX get back to work.	Vault Health's saliva test kit for coronavirus. Vault Health This story is available exclusively to Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now. Redeem now Vault Health, a little-known startup for men's healthcare...
Sep 19, 2018	Insurer to Purdue Pharma: We won’t pay for OxyContin anymore	The largest insurer in Tennessee has announced it will no longer cover prescriptions for what was once a blockbuster pain reliever. It’s the latest insurance company to turn against OxyContin, whose maker, Purdue Pharma, faces dozens of law...
	Dolly Parton tells Tennessee lawmakers to stop trying to build a statue of her	Country music icon Dolly Parton said she has asked Tennessee legislators to pull their bill to erect a statue of her on the state’s capitol grounds in Nashville. “Given all that is going on in the world, I don’t think putting me on a pedest...
	Insurer to Purdue Pharma: We won’t pay for OxyContin anymore	The largest insurer in Tennessee has announced it will no longer cover prescriptions for what was once a blockbuster pain reliever. It’s the latest insurance company to turn against OxyContin, whose maker, Purdue Pharma, faces dozens of law...
	As hospitals fill with Covid-19 patients, medical reinforcements are hard to find	Nurse is comforting a covid patient at the ICU Hospitals in much of the country are trying to cope with unprecedented numbers of Covid-19 patients. As of Monday, 96,039 were hospitalized, an alarming record that far exceeds the two previous...

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