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Knoxville Airport’s passenger count breaks a record

Jan. 31, 2018

Nearly 2 million passengers came through Knoxville’s McGhee Tyson Airport last year

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Haslam Announces Tennessee Ends 2017 with 28,000+ New Jobs

Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam and Department of Labor and Workforce Development Commissioner Burns Phillips today announced Tennessee ended 2017 with more than 28,000 new jobs across the state in the last year

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Drone Technology

A team of University of Tennessee students and an Oak Ridge National Laboratory researcher have created a robot with a brain.

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Congress to push broadband expansion

Jan. 25, 2018

Congress is preparing to follow suit with an aggressive push to make high-speed internet service more readily available in rural America.

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FIGHTING OPIOIDS CRISIS. Gov. Haslam unveils $30M plan

Educating children, making overdose-reversing drugs available to all state troopers and adding hundreds of prison beds to treat those fighting opioid addiction are part of Gov. Bill Haslam and legislative leaders’ comprehensive $30 million proposal to c

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TN official: Megasite needs $80M to be ‘shovel ready’

Tennessee Department of Economic and Community Development Commissioner Bob Rolfe said the Memphis Regional Megasite will need another $80 million to be “shovel ready” or brought up the point where construction could begin.

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Discovery moving HQ to Scripps in Knoxville

Jan. 19, 2018

Discovery Communications announced that they will move their national operations headquarters to Knoxville.

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Tennessee’s Small Business Job Growth Led Nation in 2017

Tennessee led the nation in the growth of small businesses during 2017

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Avant, LLC to Locate New Operations Center in Blount County

Financial services company to create 200 new jobs in Louisville

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