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With the state’s voluntary buyout deadline looming and not enough employees willing to take the deal, Governor Bredesen says looking back, the state could’ve done more.

Nashville Congressman Jim Cooper asked the Tennessee Valley Authority for major changes to the way it does business with its electric cooperatives.

Early voting for the state’s primaries began on Friday. And from the looks of the second quarter campaign finance reports, Middle Tennessee’s U.S House incumbents are safe. In the state Senate that is not the case for Clarksville Democrat Rosalind Kurita. WPLN’s Jacqueline Fellows and Joe White discuss the power struggles for state House and Senate seats.

The historic building named after World War One hero Sergeant Alvin York has been saved.

Tennessee’s U.S. Senators were among the Republicans who applauded the President’s decision yesterday to lift a ban on offshore oil drilling. But the President’s action is meaningless unless Congress does the same.

Tennessee’s Republican Senators helped make yesterday’s vote on Medicare cuts veto-proof.

Today is the deadline to register to vote in the state’s primary and county general elections in August.

City officials are bracing for an increase in the number of Davidson County residents who need help paying their rent and other bills.

Accusations from a lobbyist against Tennessee Congressman Jim Cooper shut down a house investigation into rural electric co-ops yesterday.