Could Tennessee have a new state song? Two lawmakers are looking to make just that happen. Tennessee State Rep. Antonio Parkinson and Tennessee State Sen. Raumesh Akbari, both representing Shelby ...
Minnesota would designate three state songs – "Hail! Minnesota", "Girl from the North Country" and "Purple Rain" – under a bipartisan bill heard in a committee Tuesday. "Hail! Minnesota" was made the ...
Should Minnesota have a new official state song? Or maybe two of them? A group of five bipartisan state senators have introduced a bill that would make both Prince's "Purple Rain" and Bob Dylan's ...
The Minnesota State Senate is considering a bill to establish additional state songs. A bipartisan group of state senators introduced the bill to include “Purple Rain”, composed by Prince and the ...
Legislators say the state song is hard to sing, and doesn’t exactly inspire listeners to turn up the volume. A resolution is in the works to get a new arrangement across the airwaves. The current song ...
A state senator representing Berks County has announced a bill that could designate a new state song for Pennsylvania. Sen. Judy Schwank has issued a proposal for legislation that would designate “My ...
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... When Colorado lawmakers made “Rocky Mountain High” the second official state song in 2007, they couldn’t help but highlight the original, “Where the ...
ALL RIGHT. ETHAN. THANK YOU. AS WE MENTIONED EARLIER, THERE’S AN EFFORT TO REPLACE THE STATE’S SONG, A RESOLUTION TO STUDY THE STATE SONG JUST PASSED THE HOUSE, SO WE ASKED FOR YOUR SUGGESTIONS ON THE ...
Russ Diamond has written you a song. You and 13 million other Pennsylvanians who have been living under the pall of an official commonwealth anthem so dull and uninspiring, critics say, it demands a ...
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The inauguration of Gov. Josh Shapiro at the Pennsylvania Capitol in Harrisburg on Jan. 17, 2023. This story first appeared in PA Local, a weekly newsletter by Spotlight PA taking a fresh, positive ...