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Ben Rodgers & Cumberland, Jackson, Smith, And White County Updates

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Ben Rodgers sits down with White County Executive Denny Wayne Robinson, Smith County Mayor Jeff Mason, Cumberland County Mayor Allen Foster, and Jackson County Mayor Randy Heady. They discuss The Tennessee Investment in Student Achievement (TISA), and its school overhaul funding, the various projects that they have currently going on in their respective counties, how they are allocating American Rescue Plan (ARP) funds for those projects, as well as what some of the other issues are that they're addressing in their counties.

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