Mike Morrow was a staffer for 31 years at The Tennessean, Nashville's morning daily newspaper, including 19 years as an editorial writer and member of the newspaper's editorial board. He can be reached at mikemorrow246@comcast.net.
Rep. Beth Harwell was on message and not budging Thursday when she got the nomination of her Republican peers to be Tennessee's first woman to become speaker of the House.Harwell, from Nashville, is entering her 12th term...
Sen. Bob Corker, R-Tenn., expressed gratitude Thursday night that leaders of a draft report on national debt reduction have offered a courageous proposal, but Corker was quick to add that he is not ready to support the plan.
Corker...
They will be talking about what the Republicans did Tuesday in Tennessee long after the new set of lawmakers are gone.Students of Tennessee history will learn from whatever new contraption serves as a book one day about...
Democrat Mike McWherter on Monday declared Republican Bill Haslam has shown his incompetency to lead, that Haslam wants to add bureaucracy to government and that Haslam can't actually cut the state's budget the way he says...
Lincoln Davis did not vote for the health-care reform bill that has riled millions of people across the country.But he has a test about the new law that might catch a lot of people off-guard."Even...
Greg Rabidoux, the Democratic nominee in the 7th District race for Congress, made his opinion known about the media Monday.He took issue with what he said is the media's preoccupation with how much money a candidate raises...
Bill Haslam doesn't talk about it much, but he has to think about it a lot.Wednesday morning.If Wednesday morning finds Haslam, the mayor of Knoxville, elected as Tennessee's next governor, as polls strongly indicate...
Had it not been for a conversation years ago with Bob Corker, Bill Haslam would probably not be where he is today.Where he is happens to be the leading position to become Tennessee's 49th governor.Haslam, the...
A weekend political noteload:They took up a collection of sorts for Republican gubernatorial nominee Bill Haslam at the Stan McNabb Automotive dealership in Tullahoma, and McNabb presented the results -- campaign contribution checks -- to Haslam this week.The showroom was...
Reports of the demise of the Democratic Party in Tennessee have not been exaggerated.The Democrats are in trouble, and even if they escape some close calls on Tuesday, if Republicans take control of the state House, the GOP ...