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From the Nashville Scene: State Senator Mark Norris doesn’t do entertainment law. He’s a defense attorney who specializes in tort litigation. But Adams Reese, the powerful, blue-chip firm that employs him in Memphis, has a lucrative entertainment law business in Louisiana that represents several film industry [...]

In a widely anticipated move, Jim Bryson and the GOP Caucus of the state Senate Friday killed a bill that would have established a Tennessee minimum wage of $6.15 an hour, one dollar above the federally mandated minimum [...]

From the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee: With Tennessee paying record prices at the pump, Bob Corker is raking in thousands of dollars in campaign cash from Pilot Oil and the rest of the oil and gas industry. In fact, he has taken more oil & gas money than any other non-incumbent this cycle. Corker [...]

When was the last time you heard a Republican candidate for the U.S. Senate in Tennessee call another Republican candidate for the U.S. Senate in Tennessee an ugly name? When was the last time you heard one of these candidates accuse one of the other candidates of stretching the truth? That depends on the last time you paid attention to them. The current [...]

As the current session of the General Assembly rolls toward its conclusion this week, things just keep getting worse for Jim Bryson, Ron Ramsey, and the Senate Republican Caucus. On Wednesday, Bryson suffered a [...]

Governor Phil Bredesen won a major legislative victory today when his popular Cover Tennessee initiative passed the state Senate on a nearly unanimous vote. State Senator Jim Bryson, a potential GOP nominee for governor, suffered a [...]

GOP gubernatorial candidate Jim Bryson led an effort in the state Senate to kill Governor Phil Bredesen’s plan to provide affordable, portable health insurance to working Tennesseans. Bryson, a first-term legislator who’s stepping down from the Senate to run for governor, filed an amendment to Bredesen’s Cover [...]

From Monday's Nashville Post: State Senator Jeff Miller (R-Cleveland) has hired back an assistant who was at the center of public attention last year involving both his professional and his personal life. Jessa Fahey, who had resigned as [...]

Apparently, the Republican candidates for the U.S. Senate don't care what Ron Ramsey thinks. Not two full days after the state Senate majority leader asked the foes to quit picking on each other, Ed Bryant and Van Hilleary launched broadsides against Bob Corker, attacking the former Chattanooga mayor for [...]

Ron Ramsey is not amused by the name calling and bickering in the Republican U.S. Senate primary. The Nashville Post reported yesterday that the state Senate majority leader "wants his party's candidates to replace outgoing U. S. Sen. Bill Frist to ease their verbal war with one another in their primary campaigns." [...]

U.S. Senate candidate Harold Ford, Jr. Monday launched his fourth round of strong campaign ads, this time with a focus on skyrocketing fuel prices. The ads will run statewide on network TV, cable TV, and radio. In the ads, Ford says unprecedented profits for oil and gas companies and their executives are wrong at a time when fuel prices are [...]

Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist has found a way to avoid paying the skyrocketing gas prices that are putting the pinch on Americans from coast to coast. How? He travels in private jets and limousines. Financial disclosures for Volunteer PAC, the political [...]

From Tuesday's Nashville City Paper: State Sen. Jim Bryson needs to decide if he really wants to lead the state of Tennessee from the executive office. Yes, Bryson, a Republican, has entered the gubernatorial race against incumbent Democrat Gov. Phil Bredesen. He has filed papers to seek the state’s highest office [...]

From Monday's Financial Times: By Rep. Jim Cooper. The federal government keeps two sets of books, but the Bush administration only wants you to see one of them. There is the highly publicised "President's Budget" issued by the Office of Management and Budget, and the almost-secret "Financial Report of the United States" issued by [...]