Author: Jon Styf | The Center Square

(The Center Square) – Tennessee now has nine counties that are considered distressed, up one from a year ago and now including Haywood County, the home of Ford’s Blue Oval City project. A distressed county is one among the 10% most economically distressed in the nation, as determined by the Appalachian Regional Commission. This year,…

(The Center Square) – Tennessee native and former Vice President Al Gore called President Joe Biden’s decision to withdraw from his reelection bid on Sunday a “selfless decision.” Meanwhile, the Tennessee Democratic Party met during the day Sunday and the Tennessee delegation to the Democratic National Convention announced it voted unanimously to support Vice President…

(The Center Square) – Former President Donald Trump’s felony convictions in New York did not hurt his numbers in Tennessee. In fact, Trump’s 34 felony convictions for falsifying documents made 34% of Tennesseans more likely to vote for him while just 22% said it made them less likely to vote for him, according to a…