The Tennessee General Assembly passed a bill Thursday that “vacated and reconstituted” the membership of the Knoxville Airport Authority Board of Commissioners as the state took control of board appointments away from the local governments in Knoxville, Nashville, Memphis and Chattanooga.
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The state will now have control of appointments for McGhee Tyson. The appointments for the nine member board will be divided between the governor (two), speaker of the house (two), speaker of the senate (two) with three selections will come from Knoxville with the mayor nominating and the city council approving those picks.
...The law specifies that of the two selections made by each of the three state officers, one must be a “resident of the county in which the airport is located,” while one is a resident of the authority’s creating municipality.
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The law does require that no appointee can have a financial interest in an airport or its concessions and can not be an officer or employee of Knoxville.
It requires one member must be female.
Isn't that sweet? A little DEI though.
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Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson confirmed a planned deployment of about 75 ICE personnel at O’Hare International Airport, saying the officers would monitor exit lanes, make passenger announcements and assist with managing lines.
Is that helpful?
The president has suggested the agents would be arresting undocumented immigrants at airports.
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"Those guys are really getting paid to do nothing,” said [a passenger]... “That is what this is all about. They are not finding … illegal people here.”
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Yet, in 2018, the Transportation Security Administration found a record-setting 4,239 firearms in carry-on bags at 249 airport checkpoints around the country.
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Perhaps more alarming, of the 4,255 firearms found last year, more than 86 percent (3,656) were loaded (another record) and almost 34 percent (1,432) had a round chambered.
TSA found a record-setting number of guns at airports in 2018
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