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From The Associated Press: NASHVILLE — A spokesman for Gov. Phil Bredesen said the governor's second inauguration celebration will be festive but not extravagant. "There are two rules we have: Respect the tradition, but keep the right tone," said Will Pinkston, Bredesen's inauguration spokesman. [...]

KINGSTON – Roane County native and real estate broker Joe Caldwell Wednesday announced that he will run for the District 12 seat in the Tennessee Senate that current Senator Tommy Kilby will vacate in 2008. Caldwell’s decision comes after State Representative Dennis Ferguson, D-Harriman, [...]

From the City Paper: NASHVILLE - Gov. Phil Bredesen says his new healthcare program hit a "home run" Tuesday. BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee won both of the contracts to offer health insurance to the working poor [...]

NASHVILLE -- Senator Joe Haynes, chairman of the Senate Democratic Caucus, Monday declared he is a candidate for speaker of the Senate. “I have decided to offer myself for the position of speaker of the Senate at this critical juncture in the history of the state of Tennessee,” Haynes said. “I'm not a candidate against [...]

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- U.S. Rep. Lincoln Davis has been named to the exclusive House Financial Services Committee by the Democratic Steering Committee. Davis said Financial Services is a well regarded committee assignment with jurisdiction over the banking and insurance industry, [...]

From the Knoxville News Sentinel: NASHVILLE - State Sen. Tommy Kilby said Wednesday that he has decided not to seek another term in 2008 and would like to see Rep. Dennis Ferguson elected as his successor. "The time has come for Tommy Kilby to become a private citizen," the Democratic lawmaker said [...]

With the election yesterday of Senator Mark Norris as chairman of the Republican Caucus in the Tennessee Senate, Go4Truth thought it might be helpful to readers to reprint the following article from the Nashville Scene [...]

From The Associated Press: Gov. Phil Bredesen on Friday named Stuart Brunson to succeed Dave Cooley as deputy governor. Brunson, who operated his own Nashville-based lobbying and public relations firm during 2004 and 2005, was in charge of Bredesen's 2002 campaign for governor and this year's re- [...]

From The Center for Public Integrity: WASHINGTON, D.C. — Over a three-year period ending in 2005, nearly 1,600 former lawmakers across the country were registered at some point to lobby state legislatures for special interests, according to an analysis by the Center for Public [...]

From The City Paper: NASHVILLE -- Most regular Tennesseans may best know Dave Cooley as the ‘guy who may have gotten that ticket fixed.’ Gov. Phil Bredesen knows him a little better, and owes a good portion of his success to him. The two first met in the late 1980s, after Bredesen lost his first [...]

From the Boston Globe: SUCHITEPEQUEZ, Guatemala -- Outside his aqua-colored concrete house here, Rene Alvarez Rosales paused under an almond tree to answer questions about a subject with which he has surprising familiarity: Governor Mitt Romney's Belmont lawn. For about eight years, Rosales said, he [...]