Blackburn names new transition head, plans Tennessee DOGE effort
Tennessee Gov.-elect Marsha Blackburn speaks during a news conference Wednesday, Nov. 4, 2026, in Nashville. (George Walker IV/AP)
Tennessee Gov.-elect Marsha Blackburn already has some priorities for her administration, including a state DOGE review of spending, and the state House speaker wants to cap local property tax rates.
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Bill Dries covers city and county government and politics. He is a native Memphian and has been a reporter for almost 50 years covering a wide variety of stories from the 1977 death of Elvis Presley and the 1978 police and fire strikes to numerous political campaigns, every county mayor and every Memphis Mayor starting with Wyeth Chandler.
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