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Metro Council members will take up a bill tonight that could raise water and sewer rates about 21-percent over the next three years.

Nashville Congressman Jim Cooper told a group of Nashville engineers yesterday that he had “mixed feelings” about voting for the nearly 800 billion dollars wroth of economic stimulus money.

The Metro Council voted to defer indefinitely several bills related to a Habitat for Humanity development in North Nashville last night.

Congressman Zach Wamp stopped in Middle Tennessee yesterday on his second statewide tour since announcing his candidacy for governor earlier this month.

Banning the sale of single beers has long been the goal of Council members representing downtown Nashville. They and residents see it as a way to combat litter, curb public drunkenness and limit loitering. But business owners, particularly small convenience stores in the area, say the proposed ban will hurt their bottom line, while doing nothing to solve the social problems Council members want to attack. WPLN’s Christine Buttorff reports.

Members of the Tennessee Democratic Party Executive Committee gathered in Nashville over the weekend and selected Chip Forrester as the party’s new chair. Forrester won despite having senior party members campaign against him.

New fire codes may not be the most exciting topic for a special Metro Council meeting, but they can mean expensive changes for businesses.

A new ‘tourist zone’ is in the works to help pay for Nashville’s new downtown Convention Center.

Lines stretched into the parking lot at Metro’s only early voting site this weekend in downtown Nashville. But many withstood the cold wind to vote on the two proposed charter amendments, making Saturday’s turnout the highest.

Former Tennessee Senator Bill Frist announced earlier this month that he would not be seeking the Republican nomination for governor in 2010. WPLN’s Christine Buttorff caught up with the former U-S Senate Majority Leader about what he’ll be working on next.