John Partipilo

Tennessee Department of Health bars employees from using preferred pronouns tennesseelookout.com/2025/03/17/ten… @TNLookout

Bill requiring English-only driver’s license testing in Tennessee fails after lobbying by business groups who pointed out that it could impact executives for int'l companies like Nissan, VW living in the state tennesseelookout.com/2025/03/19/bil… @TNLookout

Protestors recite Pledge of Allegiance on repeat, shutting down Tennessee House committee set to hear bill requiring banks to do immigration checks for international wire transfers -- and requiring kids without legal status to pay tuition at public schools Video: @PartipiloJ

Tennessee bill to criminalize ‘harboring or hiding” immigrants without legal status advances tennesseelookout.com/2025/03/20/ten… @TNLookout

An immigration enforcement proposal that targets congregations and other faith-based groups that "harbor or hide" undocumented residents is moving forward in the TN House. The bill also now includes a "human smuggling" provision, reports @anitawadhwani: tennesseelookout.com/2025/03/20/ten…

Tennessee bill would expand weed-killer manufacturers’ legal immunity  tennesseelookout.com/2025/03/25/ten… @TNLookout

Bill giving immigrants without legal status 72 hours to leave the state of Tennessee advances in House tennesseelookout.com/2025/03/26/bil… @TNLookout

Governor’s supplemental budget depends on $700 million in federal stimulus money investments tennesseelookout.com/2025/03/26/gov… @TNLookout @stockard_sam

Former News Channel 5 Meteorologist Bree Smith backs Tennessee bill to criminalize deepfakes tennesseelookout.com/2025/03/27/for… @CStephenson731

Tennessee Senate targets school boards, superintendents associations that lobbied against the GOP-backed school voucher measure that narrowly passed earlier this year tennesseelookout.com/2025/03/27/ten… @TNLookout @stockard_sam

Hi! So *professional news* alert: I am excited to say that I've accepted a position in AP's Rhode Island buro. I am going to miss Tennessee terribly (a truly beautiful, newsy state), but a chance to help cover New England has been a dream for so long. Someone give me coat recs!

A former Tennessee House speaker & his aide, facing federal corruption charges, say current House Speaker Cameron Sexton or one of his staff wore a wire to gather evidence for prosecutors 5 yrs ago They're asking a judge to reveal IDs of all informants tennesseelookout.com/2025/02/26/cou…

Who’s funding Tennessee’s politics? If you're interested in following the money, @TNLookout has all PAC, lawmaker & political party donor dollars since 2010 in an easily searchable database (newly updated) Data wrangler: @friedmanadam5 tennesseelookout.com/2025/02/24/cas…

Tennessee hemp industry fears slate of restrictive bills could gut industry tennesseelookout.com/2025/02/25/hem… @TNLookout @stockard_sam

‘Be prepared’ Nashville leaders caution immigrant communities about looming crackdowns “I think people should talk to children … tell them if you don’t hear from me, do x, y and z.” tennesseelookout.com/2025/01/24/be-… @TNLookout

Tim Burchett gives Andy Biggs — who declined to vote when his name was first called — a big thumbs up. Then he goes in for the fist-bump. And then, about 30 seconds later, Burchett votes for Mike Johnson. Sort of a perfect metaphor for Tim Burchett.

Tennessee politics 2024: the year in photos tennesseelookout.com/2024/12/27/the… @PartipiloJ @TNLookout

2 years after being sentenced to prison for federal campaign finance violations, former Tennessee state Sen. Brian Kelsey is asking U.S. Supreme Court to reverse his conviction on a technicality. Kelsey has yet to serve any time. tennesseelookout.com/2024/12/18/for… @TNLookout @stockard_sam

Congratulations to the Memphis folks and activists for pushing this. Thanks to the DOJ Civil Rights Division Special Litigation Section for pushing this forward. Efforts like these matter to everyday folks. actionnews5.com/2024/12/04/doj…

TN Sen. Ken Yager's BAC was 0.14, according to the incident report. He told troopers he had been in a crash but "thought everyone was fine, that he spoke with the other driver, and decided to leave not knowing the police were in (sic) route." @TNLookout: tennesseelookout.com/2024/12/04/sen…