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Richard Locker
Nashville Bureau Chief, The Commercial Appeal in Memphis
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Richard Locker has worked in The Commercial Appeal's Nashville bureau since 1983, covering Tennessee government, politics and general news, after a year in the newspaper's Memphis headquarters. He previously worked for daily newspapers in Knoxville and Nashville. A Fayetteville, Tenn., native and University of Tennessee graduate, he has worked in The Commercial Appeal's Nashville bureau since 1983, covering Tennessee government, politics and general news. He has covered the administrations of five governors, 30 years of the state legislature, political scandals, prison riots, floods, tornadoes and droughts. Locker is a native of Fayetteville, Tenn. -- home of the poolroom slawburger -- and a graduate of the University of Tennessee.
Areas of Expertise
Latest Fact-Checks by Richard Locker
- Tennessee’s outcomes-based college funding model already “changing the way our postsecondary institutions do business,” says Haslam November 11, 2012
- Official says students, not state, paying most of college cost October 13, 2012
- Campfield claimed Memphis can’t destroy guns from buyback program September 26, 2012
- Tennessee congressman defends vote raising Social Security age to 70 by saying it won’t happen until “turn of the century” September 17, 2012
- Birthers sanctioned by federal judge for ‘frivolous lawsuit,’ claims Tennessee Democratic Party September 2, 2012
- Anti-muslim website says Bill Haslam promotes the interests of radical Islamists August 27, 2012
- Education chair Gresham said she didn’t push bill she sponsored to raise eligibility standards for Hope Scholarships August 12, 2012
- Candidate says state hired Vanderbilt alum to make department of economic development Sharia compliant July 24, 2012
- Tennessee Speaker Ramsey says Republicans delivered food-tax cut Democrats previously refused May 27, 2012
- Leader of education committee claims lottery deficits may exhaust reserves in a few years March 29, 2012
Latest Stories by Richard Locker
- Fact-check: Is replacing Joe Biden on the ticket ‘unlawful’? Election law experts say it’s not July 22, 2024
- United Facts of America: Experts say facts alone won’t bridge the partisan divide September 27, 2022
- Would Tom Hanks have qualified for a coronavirus test in the US? March 12, 2020
- Fact-checking Donald Trump’s 2020 State of the Union address February 5, 2020
- What we know about Shadow, Acronym and the Iowa caucuses February 4, 2020
- A new look for the PolitiFact website February 2, 2020
- PolitiFact answers the Senate’s impeachment questions January 31, 2020
- Haslam cut taxes, raised surplus — but Cato gives him a ‘D’ October 29, 2012