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Round 1
Grundy County deputies say a tip from the community led them to a man they believe may have been trying to start his own electric company—one stolen tool at a time.
Investigators were looking into the theft of tools and equipment from Sequatchie Valley Electric Company when they identified Joseph Tyler Green of McMinnville as a suspect.
Using undercover investigative work, they got a search warrant for a home in Warren County, and took Green into custody.
During that search, investigators recovered multiple items believed to be tied not just to Sequatchie Valley Electric, but to thefts involving different electric companies.
Green has been charged with theft over $10,000 and burglary of a vehicle.
Additional charges could be coming as investigators identify the recovered property.
It appears this wasn’t exactly a one-time “borrowed a screwdriver and forgot to bring it back” type situation.
Round 2
A Murfreesboro resident says chickens have been disappearing from their property near Sulphur Springs—and then this showed up on a trail camera.
The person who posted the photo says they hadn't found feathers or other clear evidence of what was taking the birds and thought it might be a bobcat or a large hawk at first, but now they believe this bad boy may be the culprit.
Now, I'm not gonna pretend I can identify every animal that walks through Middle Tennessee at 2 in the morning…
But that is definitely not the neighborhood tabby making its rounds.
It looks to be a bobcat, and the person who captured the photo is asking nearby residents to keep an eye on pets and chickens.
So if you live around Sulphur Springs, maybe make sure the coop is secure, keep smaller pets (and children) close, and don't leave your snack basket outside.
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Round 3
Tennessee is handing out tax breaks to data centers—but according to State Representative Aftyn Behn, the state can't tell taxpayers what those breaks are actually costing *us*… the tax payers.
Behn says the Tennessee Department of Revenue and the Department of Economic and Community Development confirmed there are 25 active data-center tax-exemption certificates statewide.
But here’s the part that deserves some attention:
The state apparently doesn't track the total tax revenue it's given up—or how much grant money has gone to data-center projects.
So we have 25 exemption certificates…
But apparently, nobody can tell you the price tag?
Behn is proposing what she calls the “Blank Check to Data Centers Act.”
The bill would pause new data-center tax exemptions for three years while the state reports the cost of the existing incentives, who receives them, and whether these projects are actually delivering the jobs and public benefit taxpayers were promised.
And this comes as data-center projects are drawing more pushback across Tennessee—including the proposed project near the Nashville Zoo and conversations about a moratorium in Gallatin.
Data centers may bring investment and jobs. But if Tennessee is gonna give companies major tax breaks, “we have no idea what it costs” is a wild accounting strategy. (But standard, in the government arena… so not *totally* surprising.
And that was your daily Tennessee news roundup.
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