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Kleinheider writes that the 24-year-old legislative staffer Blake Graves who got canned after an e-mail firestorm erupted at the state capitol was the target of party politics. More

The controversial abortion resolution SJR127, which just passed both the state House and Senate, isn't the big win its proponents think it is.  More

Yet, it's a tactic that just might work for Shelby County DA Bill Gibbons in his gubernatorial campaign the scion of an East Tennessee retail oil empire.   More

In Tennessee and nationwide, politicos don't take kindly to those who jump parties More

Kleinheider argues the disease threatening to take down the modern world isn't the swine flu but sensationalism. More

When state House Speaker Kent Williams strolled into a House Republican Caucus meeting last week for the first time since the day he joined with 49 Democrats to elect himself Speaker, he presented the caucus with a problem many in the general public assumed had been solved.

During the last two weeks, Lt. Gov. Ron Ramsey made official what had previously only been hinted at, he is running for Governor. By virtue of his office, Ramsey immediately becomes a ‘top-tier’ candidate.

When Chip Forrester was elected he chairman of the Tennessee Democratic Party last month, there was much wailing and gnashing of teeth from the Tennessee Democratic Party establishment.

Tennessee has a unique political culture. We are a state where an incumbent Democratic Governor can win 95 counties and a Republican can win a freshman U.S. Senate term on the very same ballot.