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Reporting from The Center Square
(The Center Square) – Lukas Salyer is not surprised at the pushback to a proposed data center on his family's southeast Tennessee property, but hopes a new agreement reached with local officials will ease some concerns.
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(The Center Square) – The U.S. Department of Justice and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office for Civil Rights have settled a discrimination claim against a private Tennessee university accused of discriminating against Jewish students.
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(The Center Square) – Applications for Tennessee's $43 million Quantum Utilization Buildout Infrastructure and Technology Grant Program are being accepted until Oct. 23, according to the Department of Economic and Community Development.
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(The Center Square) – Nashville Mayor Freddie O'Connell's political action committee is funding a Voter Protection Program to be run by the Tennessee Democratic Party.
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(The Center Square) – Nashville's Vanderbilt University ranked fifth in the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression's College Free Speech Rankings 2027, earning a C-plus and the University of Memphis received a D, the lowest of the four Tennessee schools surveyed.
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(The Center Square) – The Tennessee town of Collegedale is addressing privacy concerns about automated license plate readers by taking the cameras down altogether.
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(The Center Square) – The majority of Tennesseans surveyed said they opposed giving tax breaks to data centers, while the majority supported a bill that keeps electricity costs from being passed on to consumers.
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(The Center Square) – Tariffs cost Tennesseans an estimated $3,770 per household, according to a National Taxpayers Union Foundation report on the effects of presidential and regulatory tariffs.
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(The Center Square) – Two Tennessee counties have taken action on automated license plate readers as questions of privacy and efficacy continue.
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(The Center Square) – A social media trade organization will get another chance to challenge Tennessee's Protecting Children from Social Media Act in the U.S. District Court after an appeals court ruled in its favor.
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