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From the Times Free Press:

Tennessee shoppers won’t get another sales-tax holiday next spring as state officials try to cope with the biggest drop in sales-tax collections in a half century.

Developing story: a reported large number of individuals were being taken into Finley Stadium by combined local, state, and federal law enforcement officials. Among those arrested this morning is Chattanooga City Council District 5 representative John Franklin, Jr.

Developing story: a reported large number of individuals were being taken into Finley Stadium by combined local, state, and federal law enforcement officials. Among those arrested this morning is Chattanooga City Council District 5 representative John Franklin, Jr.

Staffers and volunteers gathered on Patten Parkway in downtown Chattanooga Saturday for the kickoff to "Vote for Change," a national voter registration effort sponsored by the Barack Obama campaign. Organizers say some 55 volunteers gathered 140 voter registration forms in over two dozen locations throughout Hamilton County.

Perhaps it’s a slow news day.

Chattanooga Times Free Press reporter Herman Wang finds the time to file the story he was working on when his home got invaded on the buzz of a possible Phil Bredesen Veep run as well as oth

The Chattanooga Times Free Press — or Dave Flessner, to be exact — delivered somewhat of a bombshell report today on the cozy relationship between downtown condominium developers and the Ron Littlefield/Dan Johnson administration.

The Chattanooga Times Free Press notes in this article that Spanish Mass was a priority in Nashville at least 20 years ago:The Rev. George E. Schmidt, pastor of Sts. Peter & Paul Church, said the then-Diocese of Nashville recognized the influx of immigrants more than 20 years ago when it assigned a priest to hold a monthly Spanish Mass in Nashville, Knoxville, Chattanooga and the Tri-Cities.

Gov. Phil Bredesen, apparently pouting because no one likes his idea for a superdelegate convention, now is trashing both Democratic candidates for president. He told the Philadelphia Inquirer, "What scares me the most this year is that this is a tough election and McCain has enormous appeal.

I have been both amazed and distraught at the lack of leadership in addressing the immigration problem by the federal government. I read a statement in the February 24th Chattanooga Times Free Press titled . . .  continue