Tech Professor: Early View Of Election Looking Like 2020 Replay
Days away from the second presidential election event of the season, a Tech Political Science Professor said the 2024 election cycle will likely feel a lot like 2020. “I feel like this election cycle is just déjà vu and we’re just watching 2020 play out all over again,” Assistant Professor Lauren Harding said. Harding said […]
Owens: There Is A Way Forward After Supreme Court Affirmative Action Ruling
A detrimental impact short-term, but there is still a way forward to enhance diversity in higher ed. Those are the personal views of Tennessee Tech Chief Diversity Officer Rob Owens. He said the Supreme Court’s decision on affirmative action was not unexpected. “I believe, and I would suggest many of my colleagues in a similar […]
Supreme Court Denies Riley’s Appeal
The State Supreme Court has denied the appeal of a Putnam County Man convicted of felony evading arrest in a motor vehicle. Cookeville Police stopped Martin Riley III in August, 2018 for a broken headlight. Riley stopped initially, but fled the scene when officers asked him to step out of the vehicle. Riley was sentenced […]
Cookeville-Putnam NAACP Celebrates Judge Jackson’s Confirmation At Friday Rally
History was made Thursday as the US Senate confirmed Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson into the Supreme Court. Cookeville-Putnam NAACP Branch President Tom Savage said the organization will hold a rally Friday celebrating the first black female Supreme Court Justice. “We celebrate to see that the court will represent Americans,” Savage said. “It will represent the […]
