Chas Sisk
Chas joined WPLN in 2015 after eight years with The Tennessean, including more than five years as the newspaper's statehouse reporter.Chas has also covered communities, politics and business in Massachusetts and Washington, D.C. Chas grew up in South Carolina and attended Columbia University in New York, where he studied economics and journalism. Outside of work, he's a dedicated distance runner, having completed a dozen marathons
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Last week state lawmakers rejected nearly half the candidates for the University of Tennessee’s newly revamped Board of Trustees.
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Tennessee lawmakers are starting to wind up business for the year, but there are still several big debates left to resolve. School security. Medical...
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A state law that would demand a work requirement for certain people on TennCare appeared to be on track last week before it hit a snag. The proposal had...
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There were high hopes among state lawmakers at the start of this year’s legislative session that they could get done early and without much controversy...
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The leading topic of discussion nationwide continues to be guns in the wake of the mass shooting at a high school in Parkland, Fla. And state capitols...
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Last week’s shooting at a high school in Florida has reignited the debate over the nation’s gun policies. That includes Tennessee, where in a terrible...
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The issue of Confederate monument removal has come back to the state legislature this year in the shape of several bills filed, mainly, by East...
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Governor Bill Haslam has started trying to sell lawmakers on the last budget of his tenure. And while that may have been overshadowed by Nashville drama...
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Congress has been deeply divided along party lines. But Tennessee Sen. Lamar Alexander believes it can come together — on legislation dealing with...
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Democrats in the Tennessee legislature moved swiftly last week to make health care the first debate of the 2018 session.