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More Tennessee four-year-olds than ever are walking through the doors to early childhood education this fall thanks to an aggressive expansion of pre-kindergarten programs pushed by Governor Phil Bredesen and Democrats in the General Assembly. According to state officials, Tennessee is adding roughly 300 new classrooms in 106 school systems statewide using $ [...]

The news keeps getting worse for Republicans still reeling from the decision by State House Minority Leader Tre Hargett to resign his seat to take a job as chief lobbyist in Alabama and Tennessee for drug manufacturer Pfizer. As it turns out, Hargett used his public office to go to bat for [...]

U.S. Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist failed to persuade the Pentagon from dismantling the Tennessee Air National Guard's 118th Airlift Wing — but he did somehow manage to help South Dakota protect its Ellsworth Air Force Base. On August 26, the federal base closure commission v [...]

Playing a bit of catch-up, U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, Health and Human Services Secretary Mike Leavitt and National Drug Czar John Walters visited Nashville on August 19 to recognize Tennessee's success in the war on methamphetamine. The trio applauded Governor Bredesen's Meth-Free Tenne [...]

Want proof of the Bush Administration's faltering economic and energy policies? Look no farther than the latest report from AAA, which shows gas prices are at record highs in Tennessee. Following is a list of August 22 average prices per gallon of unle [...]

Tennessee Democratic Party Chairman Bob Tuke today issued the following statement after House Republican Leader Tre Hargett announced he is resigning from the General Assembly to work as a lobbyist for drug manufacturer Pfizer: "If there was ever any question that the Tennessee Republican Party is in the bac [...]

Tennessee Democratic Party Chairman Bob Tuke on August 18 called on the State Republican Party, and individual candidates and political action committees, to turn down any contributions that might be transferred from the campaign account and PAC of newly hired Pfizer lobbyist Tre Hargett. Hargett’s individu [...]

On August 17, Governor Phil Bredesen said he will go to court to block the federal government's attempt to relocate the Tennessee Air National Guard's 118th Airlift Wing in Nashville to sites in Kentucky, Illinois and Texas. Federal law says a guard unit cannot be relocated or with [...]

After weeks of trying to make partisan political hay over ethics, the Tennessee Republican Party now is reeling from the August 16 news that State Representative Tre Hargett, the House Republican leader, is resigning to take a job as the chief lobbyist in Alabama and Tennessee for drug manufacturer Pfi [...]

Governor Phil Bredesen on August 9 announced good news in TennCare: The State will be able to preserve healthcare coverage for 97,000 of the sickest and neediest people on the program. The latest development comes after the Governor went to federal court to fight for legal relief from a "consent decree" put in place during the Sundquist Admi [...]

During August 9 testimony before the General Assembly’s Joint Legislative Committee on Ethics, Democratic Party Chairman Bob Tuke called for tightening up the State’s campaign finance laws to place greater limits on political contributions — particularly cash contributions — and to require more frequent financial disclosures by indiv [...]

Governor Phil Bredesen, Congressman Jim Cooper and Senator Joe Biden (D-Delaware) headlined the August 6 Tennessee Democratic Leadership Summit at Belmont University in Nashville. The event drew more than 400 Democrats from across the state. Bredesen reviewed recent successes at home, including expansion of [...]