CNN) -- California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger issued 10,000 layoff notices Tuesday, affecting a wide spectrum of state employees and aimed at dealing with the state's budget crisis, a spokesman said. Unemployed construction workers demonstrate in Los Angeles, California. California lawmakers resumed...

For once, I am ahead of the game. I have now interviewed ALL of the declared candidates for governor in 2010, and have written about them in my Sunday column. Of course, there's only one so far: Sen. Vincent Sheheen, Democrat from Camden. I don't know who will be the next candidate to declar...

Now that President Obama has officially signed the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act into law and Idaho Governor Butch Otter has signed an executive order creating a "stimulus executive committee" (members to be appointed whose job it will be to make recommendations on what to do with...

Bipartisanship in Congress? I’d respond with another word that starts with “B”, but I try very hard to keep this a family-friendly blog. I spoke with House Republican Conference... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]...

Via Christian Grantham, Metro Police Chief Ronal Serpas wants to know why it is so easy for the State of Tennessee and the General Assembly to let convicted rapists go free to rape again: “It's an issue of the state that refuses to hold dangerous people behind bars. It's the legislature's duty to ...

Reposted by request from November 2006… I think it’s time to discuss congressional term limits once again. There are way too many old fossils in the House and in the Senate in both* parties. Terms were set by the Founders at two years for the House and six years for the Senate for some very ...

Faced with a slow economy and a large deficit, Democrats in Washington are going to try to solve the problem by adding more than $1 trillion to the national debt. Many governors are faced with similar challenges, and some at least, are trying a different approach. One noteworthy example is Minnesota...

"Moderate Republican" in Tennessee is a relative term.  He or she is not going to be anywhere close to the centerlines of a Chuck Hagel or a Olympia Snowe, but when a GOP-controlled General Assembly decision makes TNGOP leaders apoplectic, it is about as good as progressives can expect in this sta...

Tennessee Republican Senator Bob Corker says that TVA and not the federal government must pay for the December 22 coal ash spill, which means that they will pass on the costs to rate payers like those of us who consume electricity here in Nashville.  There seems to be little disputing the fact that...

A reader's guide to the web of players caught up in the Blago/Burris drama...