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Gov. Bill Lee signed a resolution designating June as Nuclear Family Month. The same tool used for Pride Month for 25 years. The reaction tells you more than the resolution does.
The city raised your property taxes promising roads and a new city hall. Spring paving started today. Mayor Lynn Sebourn's neighborhood is first on the list.
Twenty-three people left the Coffee County Circuit Court Clerk's office. Unfiltered reported the number. Now one of them is explaining why — and the answer is worse than churn.
Days before the primary, Dennis Hunt was asked if he had any regrets. He named two. Both were about other people. Here's what was in the room he's not talking about.
A Facebook page is targeting local officials, pushing zoning positions, and telling you to follow the money — without telling you whose money it is or who's behind it.
The affordable housing argument wraps a development agenda in the language of working people. Tullahoma doesn't have to accept that framing.
A candidate for Coffee County Clerk says the office could be handling driver's license renewals locally — cutting out long drives and keeping fee revenue in the county. Other Tennessee counties are already doing it. Coffee County isn't.
The Tullahoma Chamber is a member organization, a publicly funded agency, and the city's designated tourism authority — all at once. There is no public accounting for any of it.
The Tullahoma Area Chamber of Commerce held a ribbon-cutting for a new mural at Minuteman Press, thanked a long list of partners, and never once acknowledged the Chamber member business that provided the wall. That is not a harmless oversight. It is a basic failure of what a Chamber is supposed to do.
If Coffee County’s Circuit Court Clerk’s office has seen 23 of 25 full-time positions vacated since 2021, this is not routine churn. It is a stability problem inside a public office that handles court records, filings, and administration, and the public still has not been given a clear explanation for it.
Mayor Lynn Sebourn’s public comments make one thing clear: Planning Commission appointments may hinge not just on qualifications, but on whether candidates share his vision for growth, density, and housing. That matters because the city’s development fights are shaped long before any public vote ever happens.
Cleanup costs from a fuel leak are nearing $750,000, but the bigger problem in Tullahoma is what came after: known losses, failed safeguards, self-congratulation, and another major leadership decision without any clear sign that anyone is being held to account.