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Paige Brown

Gallatin's Brown discusses growth, collaboration as new TML president

Gallatin Mayor Paige Brown was recently elected as the President of the Tennessee Municipal League for 2024-5.
Presently serving in her third term as mayor of her hometown, Mayor Brown was first...
Special Census Columbia

As Tennessee grows, special censuses can reap big benefits for cities

With Tennessee’s population projected to increase by at least 600,000 by the next federal census, many municipalities have found holding a special census is an effective way to ensure state-shared...
Sean Maxwell

Google official discusses use of AI to solve municipal issues

With municipalities charged with handling more data and sensitive information than ever, artificial intelligence is offering opportunities for cities to find unique solutions to problems.
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News Across Tennessee

Knoxville receives two GFOA awardsd

Knoxville’s Finance Department has continued its record-setting streak of recognition by its North American peers with not one but two prestigious awards. The Government Finance Officers Association (GFOA) has honored the city’s finance department with its 38th annual Certificate of Achievement for...

Clarksville receives Safe Streets for All funds

The city of Clarksville has secured $8,052,318 the U.S. Department of Transportation (USDOT) from the Safe Streets and Roads For All program. The funds will be used to improve Kraft Street, Riverside Drive, New Providence Boulevard, and Fort Campbell Boulevard with a combined total project cost of ...

Tullahoma wins economic development award

The Tullahoma Area Economic Development Council received the 2024 Excellence in Economic Development Bronze Award from the International Economic Development Council (IEDC). The award was bestowed specifically for the organization’s work in the Innovation in Economic Development Week category that...

Three cities share in $48.6M in clean water loans

The Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation and the Tennessee Local Development Authority have approved four loans for water infrastructure totaling $48.6 million for three municipalities.  

The city of Springfield has been awarded two loans from the Clean Water State Revolving Fund. One...

Columbia receives GFOA Triple Crown

The city of Columbia has earned Triple Crown status from the Government Finance Officers Association (GFOA) for the fifth consecutive year. This esteemed recognition highlights the City’s outstanding achievement in receiving all three GFOA awards: the Certificate of Achievement for Excellence in...

Knoxville receives $1.7M from Safe Routes to School program

The city of Knoxville has received $1.7 million to pilot a Safe Routes to School program as part of more than $1 billion in grants through President Biden’s Bipartisan Infrastructure Law for the Safe Streets and Roads for All (SS4A) program. The funding, awarded through Knoxville’s Community...
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People

Larry Henderson

Larry Henderson
Larry Henderson

Larry Henderson has retired after 44 years of service to the city of Gatlinburg. Henderson most recently spent 10 years as public works director for the city, overseeing its building maintenance, mass transit, parking, street, sanitation, and utilities departments. He began his career with the city...

Former U.S. Senator, Ambassador Jim Sasser dies at 87

Jim Sasser, three-term U.S. senator from Tennessee and former ambassador to China, died Sept. 10, 2024 at the age of 87. Sasser died at his home in Chapel Hill, N.C., days before what would have been...

Benji Davis

Benji Davis
Benji Davis

Benji Davis has been selected as the new gas director for the city of Springfield. He has been in the utility sector since 1996 and worked with Piedmont Natural Gas in Charlotte, N.C. beginning 2001 before moving to Nashville to oversee construction of Piedmont’s new offices there. He holds a degree...

Ray Smith

Ray Smith
Ray Smith

Ray Smith, former mayor of Camden, died Sept. 7, 2024, at the age of 95 at his home in Huntingdon. Smith served as mayor of Camden from 1967 to 1979. A well-known local car dealer, Smith served as president of the Tennessee Automobile Association, chairman of the Huntingdon Bankcorp, chairman of the...

Charles "Eddy" Patterson

Charles Eddy Patterson
Eddy Patterson

Charles "Eddy” Patterson, former mayor and judge for the city of Hendersonville, died Sunday, Sept. 1, 2024 at the age of 81. Patterson served 24 years as mayor of Hendersonville from 1984 to 2008 as well as 12 years as Hendersonville’s city judge. He also served ten years as a county commissioner...

Ron Shultis

Ron Shultis
Ron Shultis

Ron Shultis, former policy and researcher director for the Beacon Center of Tennessee, has been selected as the new chief of staff for Jackson Mayor Scott Conger. Prior to spending seven years with the Beacon Center, Shultis worked for several years as a corporate immigration paralegal for Zulkie...
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State Briefs

Five municipalities awarded Recreational Trails Program grants

Five municipalities will share in more than $2.6 million in grants from the Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation’s Recreational Trails Program (RTP).  

The RTP program provides federal funding to match local government investments for land acquisition for trails, non-routine trail...

Brownsville, Dickson sites certified through Select Tennessee program

Sites in Brownsville and Dickson have been certified through the Select Tennessee Certified Sites program. The Tennessee Department of Economic and Community Development (TNECD) announced Brownsville’s I-40 Advantage Industrial Park and Dickson’s Canterbury Site have both completed the certification...

National Park Service generated $2.2 billion toward Tennessee economy

The National Park Service generated $2.2 billion and 10.5 million across its 13 properties in Tennessee last year with Tennessee seeing the sixth-highest amount of tax benefit from the National Park Service. Visitors spent some $1.4 billion in the state and generated more than 20,000 jobs, leading...

Boyd Center Projects Tennessee Population to Hit 7.94 Million by 2040

Since 1960, Tennessee has added a million people every 20 years. New projections show the state on pace to continue that trend through 2040.

Tennessee’s population is expected to reach 7.94 million by 2040, according to projections from the Boyd Center for Business and Economic Research at the...

GIVE grants provide $41M to foster partnerships between TCATS, local industries

Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee announced recipients of the Governor’s Investment in Vocational Education (GIVE) grant program, which prioritizes learning opportunities in rural counties and enhances career and technical education statewide. 

Tennessee has made notable progress in rural workforce development...

DOJ joins Tennessee, seven states in lawsuit against software company accused of driving up rents

The U.S. Department of Justice has joined a bipartisan antitrust suit against RealPage brought by the state of Tennessee and seven other states. 

The company sells software to landlords that collects nonpublic information from competing landlords and uses that combined information to make pricing...
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