NASHVILLE – The Beacon Center of Tennessee, the state’s free market think tank, today announced the results of its annual ranking of the state’s 50 most populous cities. Founded as the Tennessee Center for Policy Research, the Beacon Center analyzes cities’ friendliness to business each year...

Beacon Center’s Justin Owen pens an article in today’s Tennessean that urges Nashville Metro Government to roll back the expansive regulatory environment it places on small businesses and entrepreneurs. by Justin Owen Nashville is a thriving Southern city. Tourists and residents enjoy the...

The Tennessee Center for Policy Research was featured on WSMV, Channel 4 News in Nashville. TCPR recently released a report showing how local entrepreneurs were harmed by needless red tape imposed by Music City bureaucrats. One such entrepreneur is Pat Raynor, who is banned from starting her own home-based...

New report shows how stringent rules harm many local small business owners NASHVILLE – The Tennessee Center for Policy Research issued a policy report today exposing how Nashville’s regulatory environment harms local entrepreneurs and small businesses. The report, titled A Burdensome Tune, analyzes...

NASHVILLE – The Tennessee Center for Policy Research today released a policy brief outlining a proposal to improve the process for calculating the cost of state legislation. TCPR senior fellow and former state Rep. Donna Barrett authored the brief, titled Accurately Calculating the Cost of Tennessee...

NASHVILLE, TN – The Tennessee Center for Policy Research today released its 2011 Tennessee Pork Report, exposing that state and local governments across Tennessee wasted $371 million over the past year. For the sixth consecutive year, Tennessee’s premier free market think tank partnered with taxpayer...

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.

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,...

Tennessee Center for Policy Research president Justin Owen and Ben Cunningham, spokesman for Tennessee Tax Revolt, pen a column in Friday’s Tennessean about a plan to raise Nashville Comcast customers’ taxes by 1,200 percent. Among other things, the additional revenue would go to convert...