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Rutherford County officials want schools to help them find out who’s not paying the county’s car registration fee.

Tennessee Repbulican Senator Bob Corker set himself apart from the officical GOP response that criticized President Barack Obama’s speech on the economy last night.

The federal stimulus package may have passed Congress, but state lawmakers are unsure how much it’ll help Tennessee’s $900 million budget shortfall this year. WPLN’s Jacqueline Fellows and Joe White parse out what the state does know and what it doesn’t.

Literacy advocates in Nashville want city leaders to reinstate a position they say is key to teaching adults to read.

New state House Speaker Kent Williams kept his promise to split committee assignments between Republicans and Democrats. Republicans have a one seat majority in the House, and a chair one more committee than the Democrats. For those keeping score, that’s Republicans heading up 7 committees, Democrats in charge of 6. Morning Edition’s Jacqueline Fellows and WPLN’s State Capitol Correspondent Joe White explain why the GOP advantage still didn’t win over Williams’s fellow party members

Republican dominance of the General Assembly received a sharp blow from Democrats backing a surprise candidate for House Speaker. East Tennessee Republican Kent Williams got the win, but may lose his party status. WPLN’s State Capitol Correspondent and Morning Edition’s Jacqueline Fellows discuss last week’s rollercoaster ride of an opening session of the General Assembly.

Voters in Tennessee are getting only a small break from political campaigns.

High school dropouts in Tennessee may be able to get their diploma without stepping a foot back into a classroom.

Early voting for Metro Nashville’s special election starts today. The ballot only has two issues and despite one that’s viewed as controversial, Davidson County Election officials aren’t expecting crowds at the ballot box.