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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.

The new partnership means up to a 100 UT residents will be working with Saint Thomas doctors by 2017.

The Pickerel Frog has never been found in Davidson County before.

Lawmakers at the State Capitol are eager to go home—so much so they’re going to try to wrap everything up this week. That means the gears of government turn a little faster.