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Via the Courthouse News Service:

The Davidson County Election Commission has certified that the English First initiative has enough valid signatures to be placed on the November 4 ballot.

Terry Frank asks a good question following a THP official’s admission that many names on a list of unauthorized criminal database searches made by a THP Lietentant are not recognizable to him:

Two-thirds of U.S. corporations are not paying their fair share of the tax burden: they paid no taxes between 1998 and 2005. During the same period, 68 percent of foreign companies doing business in the U.S. avoided corporate taxes. Now that's "free" trade.

When I see reports like this one, it bolsters my belief that the recent HUD numbers indicating a very large decrease in homelessness across the country is inaccurate and exaggerated.

• It's good to know the rest of the sports universe is taking time off so the Brett Favre situation can unfold in Green Bay. Did we really need to cut away from the pre-season game last night to see footage of Brett emerging from his private plane in Green Bay?

House Republican leaders pressured 13 of their members to switch their vote from “yes” to “no” during Wednesday's vote on the Commodity Markets and Transparency Act (H.R. 6604), a bill designed to rein in oil profiteers.

According to Pew, two-thirds of all registered Latino voters support Barack Obama for President.