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John Rodgers at Nashville City Paper has a wonderful story today exposing how the Bredesen administration is once again using the innocuously named "technical corrections" legislation dealing with the state's tax co

Some forty hours before its official release during an 11am press conference, “GQ” Drew Johnson and Trent Seibert of the Tennessee Center for Policy Research have released their discoveries on waste,

While certainly not unprecedented, it is a little unusual to see a slate of candidates not bound by political party* running as a group for all positions on a particular legislative body -- in this case, the Hamilton County Board of Education.

Another Democrat bites the dust, this time its Kwame Kilpatrick, Mayor of Detroit, is on the path to being indicted on perjury and other charges, because of a sex scandal that involved the Mayor settling a whistleblower lawsuit for 8.5 Million in taxpayer funds, in part so that he could keep the relationsh

Are her constituents that stupid? What the heck is a "Foreign Citizen?

"I do not believe American taxpayer funds should be sent to foreign citizens who do not pay taxes," Brown-Waite said.
... [Florida GOP Congresswoman Ginny] Brown-Waite said the economic-stimulus package pending in Congress shouldn't give $600-per-person checks to residents of Puerto Rico and Guam. Shouldn't someone tell her

Given the furor over billions in earmarks loaded into the Omnibus bill passed by Congress, it’s nice to know not all federal legislators are unconcerned about the matter. Congressman Jack Kingston (GA-01) released a statement yesterday that highlighted legislation he crafted along with fellow members of the Republican Conference Frank Wolf (VA-10) and Tennessee’s own

Given the furor over billions in earmarks loaded into the Omnibus bill passed by Congress, it’s nice to know not all federal legislators are unconcerned about the matter. Congressman Jack Kingston (GA-01) released a statement yesterday that highlighted legislation he crafted along with fellow members of the Republican Conference Frank Wolf (VA-10) and Tennessee’s own

Thursday, 01/03/08, The Tennessean
By U.S. REP. JIM COOPER