Tennessee State Senator Lowe Finney

State Senator Lowe Finney (D-Jackson) writes in The Tennessean about his ongoing efforts to create a Cabinet-level position for seniors to help more than 1 million Tennesseans navigate the maze of bureaucracy that sometimes delays or prevents them from obtaining services. —————- BY STATE SENATOR LOWE FINNEY In my first campaign in 2006, I met [...]

Senate Democratic Caucus Chairman Lowe Finney (D-Jackson) writes in The Tennessean about our state’s key issues — jobs, education and health care — that know no party lines. —————— BY STATE SEN. LOWE FINNEY This week’s elec­tions sig­naled a change in rep­re­sen­ta­tion for many areas of the state, includ­ing my home region of West Tennessee. [...]

From the Carroll County News-Leader, Oct. 20: Women, infants and children of Carroll County will benefit from recent funding from the U.S. Dept. of Agriculture. State Commissioner of Health Susan Cooper was in Huntingdon at the Carroll County Health Department on Oct. 14 to award a $399,690 check to County Mayor Kenny McBride for an [...]

Sen. Lowe Finney was featured in a Stateline.org story on Tennessee’s work to improve health care for seniors through the Long-Term CHOICES Act that Finney sponsored. See the excerpt below and read the full story here. Next, he needed an ally in the Legislature to make wide-ranging statutory changes in the way Medicaid finances long-term [...]

By Mariann Martin | Jackson Sun Some of them volunteer to help — the church members who lend their services to Room in the Inn or give donations. Some of them need a helping hand — the boys and girls of the HUB Club Choir, dressed in matching orange T-shirts, or the homeless men who [...]

State Sen. Lowe Finney (D-Jackson) announced that the Bureau of TennCare’s new Choices long-term care program launched this week in West Tennessee. The program allows more senior citizens to receive in-home, long-term care services. “Long-term care services give Tennessee seniors the opportunity to receive quality care in their own homes, surrounded by their families and [...]

Congratulations to all the winners in this week’s elections. The free election process is the underpinning of our democracy. Those who participate by running for office deserve our thanks. Those who participate by voting help ensure that our system of freely chosen representatives will endure. Those who don’t participate by voting fail in their civic [...]

http://www.jacksonsun.com/article/20100806/NEWS03/8060317 District 27 has its long-anticipated rematch for state Senate. Don McLeary, of Jackson, easily won the Republican primary Thursday and will face incumbent Lowe Finney on Nov. 2 for the right to represent Madison, Gibson and Carroll counties. Finney, 34, of Jackson, was unopposed in the Democratic primary. McLeary, 62, defeated retired Air Force [...]

By Ned B. Hunter Albert Douglas was glad to do his part in the election process by casting a ballot in Thursday’s election. Douglas said he “always votes,” and while others may scoff at the 53-year-old who believes his votes count, he said non-voters don’t understand the importance of casting ballots. “If I don’t vote,” [...]

August 4, 2010 http://www.nwtntoday.com/news.php?viewStory=44376 State Senator Lowe Finney (D-Jackson) voiced his full support Thursday for a new study concerning 600 production jobs at the Milan arsenal, as recommended in a recently released letter from Gov. Phil Bredesen. “These jobs are critical to the economic health of this area, and Governor Bredesen is right to ask [...]

The Jackson Sun covered Sen. Finney’s “Lowe Listens to You” tour in Madison County on July 24. Below is the story as printed in Sunday’s edition. ————- FINNEY TALKS OF ARSENAL MEETING NED B. HUNTER | JACKSON SUN, July 25 State Sen. Lowe Finney met with American Ordnance and U.S. Army officials at the Milan [...]

The Jackson Sun supported Sen. Finney’s efforts to protect jobs at the Milan arsenal in a June 24 editorial. The text of the editorial is below. ————- BREDESEN RIGHT TO HELP SAVE ARSENAL JOBS JACKSON SUN, June 24 Gov. Phil Bredesen is right to join the fight to save 500 jobs at the Milan Arsenal. [...]

The Jackson Sun editorialized Thursday in support of Sen. Finney’s efforts to provide a sales tax break on home appliances and building supplies for flood victims. Below is the text of the May 20 editorial. JACKSON SUN – MAY 20, 2010 A legislative bill amendment co-sponsored by state Sen. Lowe Finney, D-Jackson, would offer a [...]