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Last year, as 2012 campaigns got uglier and uglier, Harvard Law School Professor Lawrence Lessig gave a lecture at the University of Montana that illuminated the greatest problem our nation faces today.

Three Middle Tennessee lawmakers disclosed assets of several hundred thousand dollars apiece in financial forms the House released Friday.

AMPING ON; NASHVILLE AMONG BEST CITIES AGAIN; AN EXCEDRIN HEADACHE KIND OF WEEK; LT GOVERNOR RAMSEY ON INSIDE POLITICS; IMMIGRATION Moving on down the line, Mayor Karl Dean's bus rapid transit program to connect East and West Nashville via West End Avenue breezed through the Metro Council last Tuesday night .

After a night of drinking dozens of thimble-sized plastic cups of booze-quinoa bourbon, chocolate fudge brownie liqueur, maple-infused vodka-my brain is mush.

McWhorter, who lives in Oak Hill, is co-founder and president of Brentwood-based Clayton Associates, a 17-year-old venture capital firm that he started with his father, well-liked former HCA Chairman Clayton McWhorter.

The House Armed Services Committee has ignored warnings from the Joint Chiefs, the secretary of defense and, this week, from the most influential defense think tanks in Washington by approving a fiscal 2014 defense authorization bill that does little to nothing to trim personnel costs.

The House Armed Services Committee has ignored warnings from the Joint Chiefs, the secretary of defense and, this week, from the most influential defense think tanks in Washington by approving a fiscal 2014 defense authorization bill that does little to nothing to trim personnel costs.

The fiscal 2014 $638 billion defense authorization bill approved early Thursday morning by the House Armed Services Committee includes $140 million for building a ballistic missile interceptor base on the East Coast, The Hill reported.

AMP IT UP; THE NEXT STEP FOR PILOT FLYING J; HERE COME THE JUDGES OR MAYBE NOT; BACK TO GUNS; INSIDE POLITICS; LIFESAVERS FOR LUNCH It looks like for the first time the Metro Council will be voting soon on Mayor Karl Dean's Rapid Bus Transit plan to connect West and East Nashville .

U.S. Rep. Marsha Blackburn raised questions again Wednesday about the 2011 federal raids on Gibson guitar in light of the recent inquiries into the Internal Revenue Service's handling of tea party groups.

Scott Couch Nashville, TN Fox 17 has learned late credit card payments at Fort Campbell cost taxpayers thousands of dollars.