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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 [...]

This legislative session, ThinkTennessee monitored more than 200 bills related to strengthening democracy and supporting working families. Our 2024 Legislative Session Summary highlights a few of [...]

Tennessee legislators have introduced their bills for the second year of the 113th General Assembly, and at least 114 are related to ThinkTennessee’s issue areas of strengthening democracy and [...]

This year, Nashville could see its first major attempt at a mass transit overhaul since the failed 2018 transit referendum. Throughout his campaign and from his first day in office, Mayor Freddie [...]