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Tennessee is home to several of the nation’s leading manufacturing firms, helping to make the state’s manufacturing sector the second-largest contributor to both GDP and employment. The [...]

In even-numbered years voters in every state head to the polls in a federal election to cast ballots for U.S. Congress (every two years) and for president (every four years). In Tennessee, we [...]

During this year’s legislative session, which adjourned on April 22nd, Tennessee’s General Assembly passed some key changes impacting ThinkTN’s priority issue areas, while leaving many others on [...]

On April 9th, ThinkTennessee had the privilege of convening mayors and planning staff from eight cities for a special roundtable discussion on housing and infrastructure challenges in Tennessee.  [...]

The 114th General Assembly began the first of its two-year session in February (the 3rd in the House and 10th in the Senate) after a week-long special session passing hurricane relief, [...]

As part of an initiative to relieve congestion, Tennessee will begin building choice lanes in Nashville, with potential projects in other major Tennessee cities following shortly. But what will [...]

Over 3 million Tennesseans cast ballots in Tuesday’s presidential election.[1] We estimate that to be about 63.4% of registered voters (based on Early Voting numbers released by the secretary of [...]

The Inflation Reduction Act (IRA)—a landmark federal law enacted in 2022— included over $780 billion to support clean energy projects, reduce the country’s greenhouse gas emissions, and address [...]

Tennesseans will once again head to the polls for a general election in a presidential cycle this November 5th. The last time we voted for president in November 2020, we broke state records with [...]

Tennessee voters returned to the polls for the August 1st state and federal primary, and state and county general election. Tennesseans chose the Republican and Democratic candidates for federal [...]