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Today marks one year until our next federal and statewide elections. Across the country, voters will head to the polls for the November 3rd midterm elections, which will include races for the [...]

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 [...]