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Amazingly, Knoxville City Council elections are not too far around the bend. In a unique endeavor to the area, a blogger will track candidates' uses of online resources and report those developments, trends and observations at my blog, No Silence Here.

Smith are aimed at a news release about President Barack Obama that the state GOP released last year.

Sen. Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn, is optimistic that cars will one day again be manufactured at the Spring Hill plant that General Motors turned down last week.

Sen. Jeff Merkley, D-Oregon, rolled out new legislation Tuesday targeted at business start-ups. Speaking to approximately 50 business people at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Lake Oswego, Merkley announced the Small Business Jump Start Act of 2009 to members of the Lake Oswego and West Linn chambers of commerce.

Below are reactions from Tennessee government officials on General Motor's decision to produce its news sub-compact car at a plant in Michigan rather than at the Spring Hill facility.

U.S. Senator Lamar Alexander announced that the Interior appropriations bill he co-authored and that was approved by the Appropriations Committee today will fund a number of conservation efforts across Tennessee, including increased funding for the Great Smoky Mountains National Park and other national parks, the Land and Water Conservation Fund, ...

Workers at General Motors' soon-to-be-idled assembly plant in Tennessee held out hope for a reprieve, but now it's back to the waiting game.

The US House today passed legislation aimed at reducing carbon emissions by a final tally of 219-212. Rep.

A friend of the Cleveland, Tenn., missionary shot to death Tuesday in Africa said he will withhold judgment about the claim that terrorist group al-Quaida was responsible for the killing until it can be validated.

Seeking to avoid the legislative minutia that has consumed some of his predecessors, President Barack Obama is pushing his agenda through Congress by outlining a broad vision of his policy goals and then letting lawmakers fill in the blanks.

Sen. Bob Corker said Nissan's announcement Tuesday that it will make electric vehicles at its Smyrna, Tennessee plant means 1,300 jobs.

In the Rockies today, Utah is at the center of the debate over nuclear energy. In Washington, D.C. Monday, Sen.

EMBED SUMMARY: Fox News' James Rosen falsely suggested Republicans agree with Sen.

Sen. Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn., and Rep. Bart Gordon, D-Tenn., want an up-to-date evaluation of U.S.research universities and have asked the National Academies to form a top panel to do just that.

Cocke County Mayor Iliff McMahan, Jr. has just beenofficially notified that Cocke County has received full funding for safetyimprovements to a 1.1-mile section of Waterville Road in the Hartford communityby the Tennessee Department of Transportation.

No one can figure out a politically acceptable way to pay for an overhaul of America's health care system, and until someone does, the effort is stalled.

By Bonna Johnson, The Tennessean and Bill Theobald, Gannett A head-spinning array of health reform proposals have barely made their way to Congressional committees, but already two lawmakers from Tennessee playing key roles in the debate are sounding their warnings, and likely offering a taste of the bigger partisan fight that's to come.

The nuclear power industry is trying to update its image in the United States, with market-friendly names for its technology and claims that their brand of energy is good for the environment.

Detailed work on sweeping health care reforms began on Capitol Hill Wednesday morning.

Race will likely play a major issue in the August 2010 Democratic primary, for which Steve Cohen is running against a popular black politician.