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Robertson County residents are paying a little less to go to work. The Tennessee Gas Price average is now $3.09 which is a penny less expensive than one month ago and 95 cents less than one year ago. 37% of Tennessee gas stations have prices below $3.00 and our gas is the 9th least expensve in the country.
A bill that would slightly scale back Tennessee’s abortion ban is making its way through the legislature in Nashville. The bill was yesterday approved by the House. It would change Tennessee’s abortion law to allow doctors to perform abortions if their “reasonable medical judgement” deems the mother’s life to be in danger. Democrats tried to scale the ban back further, proposing adding exceptions for minors who get pregnant from rape or incest. The Republican majority rejected the idea. The bill will now move on to the Senate.
Tennessee Lieutenant Governor Randy McNally still has the support of his peers. McNally yesterday survived a “no confidence” vote from his Republican colleagues. He came under fire after he was caught commenting under a 20-year-old gay man’s provocative Instagram posts. McNally has been labeled a hypocrite by some due to his role as a figurehead in getting bills passed in Nashville that critics call anti-LGBTQ. He survived the vote by 19 votes to seven.
A federal judge is granting class action status to a lawsuit accusing General Motors of knowingly selling cars with faulty transmissions. There are 39 plaintiffs in 26 states who have sued GM. U.S. District Judge for the Eastern District of Michigan David Lawson granted the class certification on Monday. The lawsuit claims GM vehicles with eight-speed automatic transmissions made between 2015 and 2019 lurch and shudder when driving.
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