Two people were shot dead in Clarksville Wednesday night. Clarksville Police responded to the 500 block of Westwood Drive around 6:40 last night and found the two victims dead at the scene. Officials believe the shooting is an isolated incident.
The Tennessee Department of Health reported four-thousand-483 new COVID-19 cases yesterday, bringing the total since the outbreak began to nearly 694-thousand-300. Almost 90 additional COVID-19-related deaths were reported, bringing the total number of coronavirus-attributed deaths statewide to over 85-hundred. Over 26-hundred COVID-19 patients are hospitalized statewide. In Robertson County there have been 7,741 cases of COVID 19 since the pandemic began, 7,055 have recovered and 85 have died of COVID-19 in Robertson County.
Tennessee Republican lawmakers want to pressure the state’s public-school districts to offer in-person learning. House Majority Leader William Lamberth and Senate Majority Leader Jack Johnson have filed a bill that would allow Tennessee to pull state funding if a district doesn’t offer at least 70 days of in-person instruction for kindergarten through eighth-grade students by the end of the school year. Funding could also be in jeopardy if public schools don’t offer in-person learning to elementary and middle school students every day of next school year. The bill has not yet gained the support of Governor Bill Lee.
A state senator is pushing a bill to grant access to voting for eligible jail inmates. Senator Brenda Gilmore filed a bill in the general assembly last week for a pilot program that would place polling sites at Davidson County and Shelby County jails. Senator Gilmore says inmates who remain in jail while awaiting trial are eligible to vote, since they haven’t yet been convicted of a crime. The Democrat says not having the money for adequate legal representation or to pay for bond shouldn’t prevent someone from voting.
