Immigration Bills Allows Government to Seize Illegal’s Paycheck

The Senate Commerce committee approved three immigration bills today – one would allow the state to seize an illegal immigrant’s paycheck.

Senator Lamar Alexander told Corps of Engineers chief Robert Van Antwerp today that the agency needs to pay more attention to the Center Hill Dam.

Former mayoral candidate Buck Dozier has been tapped to oversee the State Fair and Fairgrounds.

Nashville Mayor Karl Dean says the region’s drought has highlighted one of the city’s strengths-and he says businesses are taking notice.

In a speech to the National Religious Broadcasters convention in Nashville today, President Bush warned that religious expression could be in jeopardy. A proposal is floating among Democrats in Congress to re-instate the ‘Fairness Doctrine.’

President Bush spoke to religious broadcasters from around the country in Nashville today, making a case for continued military might in Iraq and Afghanistan. He found a receptive audience.

The Tennessee House of Representatives today passed a resolution telling Georgia that Tennessee won’t show up for a boundary dispute. Tennessee is satisfied that the boundary line between the two states, as surveyed in 1818, is accurate, the House said.

The A-A-R-P says 70-percent of Tennesseans would support more funding to help people stay in their own homes as they grow older. The organization, representing senior citizens and retirees, published the survey results today.

State revenues for the month of February were almost twenty-one million dollars less than the state expected.

Today, Nicholas Zeppos spoke to the Vanderbilt University community for the first time as its chancellor.