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A former Metro councilman is leading what he calls a grassroots effort to drum up support for Mayor Karl Dean’s proposed property tax increase. Erik Cole, who once represented a portion East Nashville on the Council, is leading the group called Moving Nashville Forward.

The University of Tennessee is one of more than a dozen schools that will get federal money for research into how to make new nuclear plants more efficient.

Vice President Joe Biden will be in Nashville today. He’ll be attending a fundraiser for President Obama’s re-election campaign.

For the first time in his two years in office, Governor Bill Haslam will pick up his veto stamp and smack down a bill that passed late in the session.

If Congress takes no action, rates could double.

The Obama Administration has made community clinics a focal point, setting aside more than 11 billion dollars in funding.

Senator Lamar Alexander says he’s ready to throw his weight behind President Obama’s debt reduction commission, which first made its recommendations more than year ago. Another member of Tennessee’s congressional delegation tried the same thing and failed by a landslide.

Last week was supposed to be the end of the line, but a provision in the state budget that would close a youth detention center led to a mini rebellion among Democrats and rank and file Republicans.

Unemployment dropped in 89 Tennessee counties in March. Several in Middle Tennessee have the lowest unemployment.