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Tom Humphrey gets the Democratic candidates for U.S. Senate, who have been running relatively positive campaigns against one another so far, to dish a bit on their true feelings about their opponents:

Oh, it ain’t nothin’!  Just John Ford being John Ford, right?  I don’t have time this morning to do too much digging, but if I’m not mistaken, Bredesen at first remembered his conversation with Ford about the contracts. Then a subsequent report said that Bredesen didn’t remember.  Now he remembers again.

Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Mike Padgett shares his impression of two titans of Tennessee political journalism:

Tom Humphrey reports on how the two bodies of the legislature pass different type of bills in each house but not in both chambers so the bills don't become law.

Tom Humphrey discusses the history challengers to incumbent Tennessee Congressmen are looking to overcome this election cycle:

Tom Humphrey bestows his treasured closed government award on the House Republican Caucus and its chairman, Glen Casada.

Tom Humphrey reveals the web of associations between the Bredesen administration and AT&T, a companies which was just awarded a 10 year contract with the state while other bids for the job remain unopened due to technical mistakes:

I understand the whole contracting process, and I understand the reality that failure to fill out just one little line is cause for bid rejection.  But have there ever been occasions when the state has allowed any state contract to be rebid in the interest of saving the taxpayers money?

Joe White reports on the lottery scholarship compromise that was, then wasn’t, forcing the legislature into overtime today:

Tom Humphrey at the Knoxville News Sentinel reports that the legislature has given Gov.