NASHVILLE, Tennessee, April 16 -- Gov. Bill Lee, R-Tennessee, issued the following news: Tennessee Governor Bill Lee announced free COVID-19 testing will be available for any Tennessean, regardless of traditional symptoms, as the Unified-Command group ramps up an aggressive effort to expand testing capacity across the state. "As we look to reboot our state's economy, we must have a greater understanding of how this virus is operating in Tennessee," said Gov. Lee. "Expanding our COVID-19 testin  more

NASHVILLE, Tennessee, April 17 -- Gov. Bill Lee, R-Tennessee, issued the following news: Tennessee Governor Bill Lee announced the creation of the Stimulus Financial Accountability Group to ensure proper fiscal management of stimulus funds received by the state through the Coronavirus Relief Fund created by the CARES Act. The State of Tennessee projects a distribution of approximately $2.3 billion from the Fund. "The CARES Act has given our state critical relief to help mitigate the spread of   more

NASHVILLE, Tennessee, April 16 -- Gov. Bill Lee, R-Tennessee, issued the following news: Governor Bill Lee announced the appointment of Butch Eley to serve as the Commissioner for the Tennessee Department of Finance and Administration (F&A). Eley currently serves as Chief Operating Officer in the Governor's Office and will continue to coordinate efforts between departments in the interim. "The Department of Finance and Administration will play a crucial role in the reboot of our state's econom  more

NASHVILLE, Tennessee, April 17 -- Gov. Bill Lee, R-Tennessee, issued the following news: Governor Bill Lee established the Economic Recovery Group, a joint effort between state departments, members of the legislature and leaders from the private sector to build guidance to safely reboot Tennessee's economy. "COVID-19 has not only created a public health crisis, it has hurt thousands of businesses and hundreds of thousands of hardworking Tennesseans," said Gov. Lee. "As we work to safely open T  more

MEMPHIS, Tennessee, April 15 -- The University of Tennessee Health Science Center issued the following news: A researcher in the University of Tennessee Health Science Center's College of Medicine has been awarded a $4.94 million R24 grant from the National Institutes of Health to advance the development of a potential new drug therapy for glaucoma. Monica Jablonski, PhD, professor in the Department of Ophthalmology and associate dean of the Postdoctoral Office, will further develop an ophthal  more