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Hinting by White House operatives that a housing bill may face Presidential veto provokes Republican leaders in Congress, Lamar Alexander among them, to question the maturity of those on Pennsylvania Avenue.

Ken Whitehouse reports that independent state Senator Mike Williams will not withdraw his petition to run for re-election.

Think Progress chastises national media for painting congressional hearing on Iraq as explicitly partisan.

Lawmakers push to have "huffing" included in state's DUI law.

Changes to open records legislation in the legislature would allow record keepers more time to respond to public requests and retain the ability to charge for the service.

A former attorney who locked legal horns with embattled federal judge appointee Gus Puryear's employer CCA is motivated to write a letter supportive of his former adversary after talking to Puryear hypercritic Matt Pulle.

Ilissa Gold takes issue with Elizabeth Edwards' characterization of Barack Obama's health care proposals.

Amid discussion over legislation which would return the crime of cockfighting to felony status, Tom Humphrey reports that cockfighting operators allege that they paid a former state representative to get the crime kicked back to a misdemeanor in the early 90s.

Interest rates may be good for America's consumers but to seniors who depend on interest payments for income, the story is a bit different.

State Senator Tommy Kilby has withdrawn a bill which could have paved the way for large scale adoption of the toll road concept in Tennessee.

Michael Hooks, Jr. was sentenced to 30 days in federal prison yesterday for his role in a bogus-invoice scam in 2001 in the Juvenile Court Clerk's Office.

Senator Lamar Alexander joins a bipartisan group of Senators in introducing legislation allowing any National Guardman or Reservist who served post-Sept 11 to be eligible for early retirement. Presently, National Guard and Reserve members are the only federal retirees who must wait until age 60 to collect retirement pay.

In related news, the Christian Science Monitor reports that reservists called up to active duty are increasingly finding the jobs they left gone after returning stateside.

Jackson Baker discusses racial politics in Memphis in the days surrounding the anniversary of the death of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King.

The U.S. Department of Labor reports that Williamson County, Tennessee has posted some of the highest employment gain numbers in the county.

The Oak Hill Gazette interviews two candidates for Commissioner in the satellite city.

The Nashville Scene writes up a book by a Vandy Professor praising negative campaigning.

Tennessee's two U.S. Senators are trying to get the first desegregated school in the South located in Clinton, Tennessee made part of the National Park System.

A new viral video by Moveon.org makes the rounds accusing George Bush and John McCain of giving us endless war "on the installment plan."

Senator Lamar Alexander is leading the push inside the Republican Party to take issues of climate change seriously.

Colin Powell tells ABC News that the War in Afghanistan presents greater challenges to our military than our efforts in Iraq.

Mike Byrd doesn't believe, as the TNGOP does, that Martin Luther King, Jr. would be a Republican were he alive today -- but he's not so sure he would be a Democrat either.

Former Presidential candidate Mitt Romney follows in the footsteps of Fred Thompson and agrees to guest host for radio great Paul Harvey.

Blount County political activist Sunny Day has filed an election commission complaint against State Rep. Doug Overbey. Overbey is Alcoa’s city attorney and sits as a city judge. Day asserts Overbey cannot serve in the judicial and legislative branches at the same time.

Overbey, a Republican legislator who voted for Democratic Speaker Jimmy Naifeh, is currently challenging incumbent Republican state Senator Raymond Finney for the Republican nomination in the Eight District.