Beacon Center Provides Legislature with 51 Ideas for a Prosperous Tennessee Pamphlet offers a free market idea for each remaining legislative day of the General Assembly NASHVILLE – The Beacon Center of Tennessee, founded as the Tennessee Center for Policy Research, today made available in electronic...

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...

The Tennessee Center for Policy Research’s Allyn Milojevich explains how free market environmentalism is a better solution than cap and trade in Sunday’s Tennessean. Allyn is the recent author of Cap & Trade: A (Lame) Duck Proposal, which shows the economic impact cap and trade would...

October 4, 2010 NASHVILLE – The Tennessee Center for Policy Research, the state’s premier free market think tank, released a policy report today demonstrating the impact that cap and trade legislation could have on Tennessee’s economy. It is widely expected that Congress will attempt to pass some...

Dr. Richard Grant discusses how the government’s position to protect property rights combats social problems and often leads to more prosperous countries. This article originally appeared in Sunday’s Tennessean. by Dr. Richard Grant On ancient maps it was common to fill in unexplored or feared...

NASHVILLE – The Tennessee Center for Policy Research today made available in electronic version its most recent publication, An Idea a Day: 45 Ideas for a Prosperous Tennessee. The pamphlet offers one innovative free market idea for each remaining legislative day of the 106th General Assembly. Each...

At the advent of the 106th General Assembly, the Tennessee Center for Policy Research provided every member of the state legislature with a comprehensive guide to the issues facing the State of Tennessee. The Legislators’ Guide to the Issues provides free market policy solutions to issues related...