Tenn. Rep. Gordon won't seek re-election next year
AP - Mon Dec 14, 1:21 pm ETRep. Bart Gordon, a 13-term congressman from Tennessee, announced Monday he will not seek re-election next year, the latest Democrat in a string of retirements.
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Rep. Bart Gordon, a 13-term congressman from Tennessee, announced Monday he will not seek re-election next year, the latest Democrat in a string of retirements.
Fred Thompson, the former Tennessee senator and 2008 Republican presidential candidate, has penned his memoir and given it a title that reflects his e....
We grimaced at the flailing economy, sneezed from the flu — H1N1 and otherwise — and gasped at the details that emerged as three defendants were tried in the torture-slayings of a young Knox County couple.The University of Tennessee system lost a president, and Knoxville’s mayor and two other East Tennesseans decided they wanted to be governor.And so it went, another newsy year in a region of ...
While they rarely targeted the seat during his 11 terms, Democratic Rep. John Tanner's retirement now gives Republicans a juicy opportunity in Tennessee, prompting CQ Politics to change the rating of the 8th district race from to Tossup.
Shelbyville's city council will vote Thursday on whether to appeal a ruling to the Tennessee Supreme Court that involves a change in zoning laws. The city lost an appeal last month with Norma and...
The Tennessee Voter Confidence Act requires replacement of paperless touchscreen voting machines with optical ballot scanners by November 2010. Optical-scan voting systems read marked paper ballots and tally results, providing a tangible record of the voter's intent. They are now the most widely employed voting systems in the nation, used by 60 percent of voters in other states.
Tennessee U.S. Rep. John Tanner says he is retiring next year, after 11 years in Washington.
In news releases sent out this week, Chattanooga attorney Chuck Fleischmann and former Tennessee Republican Party Chairwoman Robin Smith issued statements on President Barack Obama's decision to send 30,000 more troops to Afghanistan.
Nashville businessman Ward Cammack on Thursday became the second Democrat to drop out of the governor's race this week.
Tennessee state Rep. Brian Kelsey of Germantown has won a special election to replace a fellow Republican state senator who resigned after an affair with an intern.
A number of political candidates and leaders elected to represent East Tennessee in Washington D.C. have released statements about President Barack Obama’s Tuesday night speech. The speech outlined his plan to send 30,000 extra troops to Afghanistan while pledging to start bringing them home in 2011.