More than two dozen television, radio, and newspaper stories were conducted on the 2011 Tennessee Pork Report, released in late June by the Tennessee Center for Policy Research. Below is a recap of the media mentions received thus far.   Television WSMV Channel 4 News (Nashville) – “$371...

July 18, 2011 The Tennessee Center for Policy Research continues its efforts to expose the problems with corporate welfare since releasing the 2011 Tennessee Pork Report in late June. In a recent interview with WSMV Channel 4 News, TCPR president Justin Owen discusses how a company planning to relocate...

Allyn Milojevich, research fellow with the Tennessee Center for Policy Research, talks with Nevada Public Radio about an idea to privatize Yucca Mountain. The repository was created to be the nation’s only site for disposing nuclear waste, but due to holdups, waste currently sits in temporary polls...

July 6, 2011 The Heartland Institute’s “School Reform News” notes the Tennessee Center for Policy Research’s involvement in the effort to provide opportunity scholarships to low-income Tennessee children. “Studies of voucher programs show that they save local school systems...

Justin Owen, president of the Tennessee Center for Policy Research, encourages Gov. Bill Haslam to pursue more opportunities to privatize certain government services in Sunday’s Chattanooga Times Free Press. Read the full story here.

NASHVILLE, TN – Today Governor Haslam signed the Tennessee Civil Justice Act of 2011. This is a successful first step in one of many necessary to make Tennessee competitive for new jobs, says Justin Owen, president of the Tennessee Center for Policy Research (TCPR), a key organization that led the...

Tennessee Center for Policy Research president Justin Owen talks with Channel 4 News about Metro Nashville’s proposal to increase a Comcast public television tax by 1,200 percent. The extra $1.2 million a year would be used to purchase televisions for Metro buildings, buy a mobile production unit,...

In a recent story about the state’s archaic alcohol laws, Tennessee Report cites the Tennessee Center for Policy Research’s “Drunk with Power” study, which shows how the liquor industry has successfully fought to maintain its monopoly and keep wine out of grocery stores. Read...

The Heartland Institute’s School Reform News talks with Ryan Turbeville, policy & outreach coordinator for the Tennessee Center for Policy Research, about recent education reforms adopted in Tennessee. Among them, linking teacher pay to evaluation results and ending teachers’ union collective...