Tennessee lawmakers agree to a second billion-dollar tax break for businesses in as many years

Tennessee lawmakers hav agreed to eliminate a portion of the state's business tax, a move that will benefit companies like FedEx. Read More

Majority of $1.5B franchise tax refunds would flow out of Tennessee, new records show

Bill Lee’s largest spending item this year is a proposal to change the method by which the state charges franchise taxes to businesses, eliminating the property tax calculation — a move that’s ... Read More

Tennessee lawmakers still at odds over business tax cut as session enters final days

House and Senate lawmakers still don’t have an agreement on Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee’s $1.9 billion business tax cut proposal. The sticking points are how many years of refunds to give and a part of ... Read More

Ralph Nader Would Like to Stop Having to Explain Why the Spoiler Coverage Is Stupid

More than 30 years later, the 90-year-old Nader is still waiting—frustrated, and occasionally incredulous—for a revolution that never arrived. The 1990s did not give America Nader’s longed-for mass ... Read More

Tennessee State University, BMAC Set Music Business Accelerator For Third Year

The Black Music Action Coalition has teamed with the Commercial Music Initiative at Tennessee State University, Music Makes Us and the Recording Industry Association of America for the third ... Read More

Oldest Black-Owned Businesses in America

But which ones have endured the longest? These are some of the oldest Black-owned businesses in America, with the very oldest listed last. Bottom line: Beauchamp Distributing Company was the first ... Read More

Woods finishes Masters with his highest score as a pro, sets sights on upcoming majors

Tiger Woods finished the Masters on Sunday wtih a 16-over 304, his highest 72-hole score ever in a career that spans three decades. All of that hardly mattered to the crowd. Read More