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More seniors in Tennessee are expected to sign up for help paying their prescription drug costs next year.

A recent survey of consumer confidence in Middle Tennessee shows shoppers here planning to tone down their holiday spending compared to last year, but they’re not cutting back as much as the rest of the country.

Higher education officials today got strict orders from Governor Phil Bredesen to move quickly and come up with a way to cut at least 10-percent from their budgets.

The Nashville Chapter of the NAACP wants answers about the news media’s portrayal of the black community.

Tennessee revenue officials hope the falling gas prices in recent weeks mean drivers are taking to the road again.

The Senate’s top Republican says Democrat Tim Barnes’ win over write-in incumbent Rosalind Kurita may not hold up.

With the Republicans now at the helm in the General Assembly, the issues they saw go down in the house are now ripe for passage. Morning Edition’s Jacqueline Fellows and WPLN State Capitol Correspondent Joe White discuss what’s waiting for legislators when they return in January.

Democrats in Tennessee were hard to find on election night. Republican John McCain, as expected, carried the state. Democrat Barack Obama posted wins in only six of Tennessee’s 95 counties: Davidson, Haywood, Houston, Jackson, Hardeman and Shelby.

Even though snowfall in Middle Tennessee is unpredictable towns and cities are usually prepared with enough salt to blanket the roads.

Not this year.