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Holly McCall
Holly McCall is the editor of the Tennessee Lookout, part of the States Newsroom network. She began her journalism career covering City Hall with Suburban News Publications in Columbus, Ohio, and wrote for the Joplin Globe in Missouri and the Nashville Business Journal and has served as political analyst for WZTV Fox 17.
Student loan forgiveness proves that if government can’t help Americans, what good is it?
By: Holly McCall - August 31, 2022
When President Joe Biden announced last week a student loan relief plan, many Americans reacted as though he had encouraged the overthrow of the government or stolen classified documents. Biden announced the U.S. Department of Education will cancel up to $20,000 in debt for Pell Grant recipients and up to $10,000 for non-Pell Grant recipients. […]
Veteran journalist: I read “The 1619 Project.” Critics need to calm down.
By: Holly McCall - December 1, 2021
You’d have to be completely out of the political loop—and I suspect you aren’t, if you are reading this—to not have heard of “The 1619 Project” and the brouhaha surrounding it. A publication of journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones and The New York Times, “1619” first appeared in an August 2019 issue of the New York Times […]