Politics moves quickly these days. If you'd like to read along and get "poised for progress"...
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2010 State of the Union Promises Achieved
New jobs bill
$30 billion from bank repayment and establish small business lines of credit
Rebates to make homes more energy efficient
Financial reform
New nuclear power plants, open offshore drilling
Create National Export Initiative
Pass health care reform
Freeze discretionary non-defense government spending (partially)
Extend tax cuts
End combat operations in Iraq
Repeal DADT
Crack down on equal pay violations
Fee on the biggest banks to recover TARP funds
New START treaty
Create deficit reduction task force
Energy efficiency rebate
view of an astronaut's view from Arizona:

"freeze annual discretionary spending for the next five years." Pretty sure I heard applause from exactly 6 congressmen.
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- Georgia issues burn ban, first time in state history (2 replies)
- State of TN proposes exempting voucher students from standardized testing (1 reply)
- UAE asks for financial assistance? (1 reply)
- Are our deployed military going hungry? (1 reply)
- Tennessee passes bill to restrict college students' protests (1 reply)
- Inflation up, gas up, food up, consumer sentiment lowest ever (1 reply)
- Some AI uses are "outside the bounds of safe/reliable technology" (2 replies)
- A Letter to the U.S. Congress (1 reply)
- President: we can't take care of daycare, Medicare, Medicaid (1 reply)
- U.S. House Democratic Leadership says to Stop the Madness (1 reply)
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TN Politics
- TN GOP discussing eliminating the state’s only Democratic-held U.S. House seat (TN Lookout)
- Tennessee’s final 2027 budget shrinks disaster response fund by $55.8M (TN Lookout)
- Congressional Black Caucus members condemn Supreme Court’s gutting of the Voting Rights Act (TN Lookout)
- John Cole’s Tennessee: Rolling in dough (TN Lookout)
- Suspect charged with attempt to assassinate Trump intended mass casualties, prosecutors say (TN Lookout)
- US Senate panel approves Warsh as new Fed chair, as Americans struggle with soaring costs (TN Lookout)
Knox TN Today
- Tales from the Lily Pad (Knox TN Today)
- Double delight: An afternoon at Sitting Bear Overlook and Sunset on Hawksbill (Knox TN Today)
- New principals for Gibbs MS, Blue Grass, West Haven, West High, Ftn. City (Knox TN Today)
- New Business Spotlight: Forté Fitness (Knox TN Today)
- Everyday Genius: The 2-Minute Rule That Changes Everything (Knox TN Today)
- Turner Homes is now Turner Companies (Knox TN Today)
- Nick McBride: On the Grow property records for last week (Knox TN Today)
- A Visit to the Top of Old Smoky with Stephen Lyn Bales (Knox TN Today)
- ArtBeat: Spotlight on the local arts events (Knox TN Today)
- 4/30 HEADLINES: News and events from the World, the USA, Tennessee, Knox & Historic Notes (Knox TN Today)
- More options emerging for East Tennessee home buyers this spring (Knox TN Today)
- Weekend Scene: Grits & Greens to Beer & Blooms and more (Knox TN Today)
Local TV News
- Rep. Harshbarger introduces bill to ban child sex-change procedures (WATE)
- Tennesseans paying among highest costs from gas price spike, new report finds (WATE)
- One Knoxville's best-ever U.S. Open Cup run ends in Round of 16 (WATE)
- New backcountry reservation system, fees coming to Great Smoky Mountains (WATE)
- 'Gut-wrenching': Ohio crash leaves UT senior hospitalized weeks before graduation (WATE)
- 'A full circle moment' City leaders share personal ties to Western Heights development (WATE)
News Sentinel
State News
- Remembering the life of Mike Ozborn - Chattanooga Times Free Press (Times Free Press)
- ☀️ A good day to write an essay - Chattanooga Times Free Press (Times Free Press)
- Community Voice: Don’t dismantle what Chattanooga has already built at incubator - Chattanooga Times Free Press (Times Free Press)
- Letter to the editor: Report undermined county program, should have celebrated it - Chattanooga Times Free Press (Times Free Press)
Wire Reports
- Oil Hits Wartime High Above $120 a Barrel as Standoff Shows No End in Sight - The New York Times (Business)
- Former FBI Director James Comey arrested in Virginia, appears briefly in court - WRAL (US News)
- Microsoft Stock Slides After Earnings. What Overshadowed Strong Cloud Growth. - Barron's (Business)
- Powell to remain as Fed governor, denying Trump a key vacancy - Axios (Business)
- Meta Stock Falls Sharply After Strong Earnings. What’s Dragging It Down. - Barron's (Business)
- Euro zone inflation jumps to 3% as economic growth almost stalls - CNBC (Business)
- Supreme Court paves the way for largest-ever drop in Black representation in Congress - NPR (US News)
- Trump threatens US troop cuts in Germany - dw.com (US News)
- King Charles US visit live: Macron responds to ‘speaking French’ jibe at Trump ahead of final day of tour - The Independent (US News)
- Thom Tillis isn’t done yet with Donald Trump’s nominees - Politico (US News)
- Alphabet, Amazon Outpace Meta in AI During Earnings Bonanza - Yahoo Finance (Business)
- 10 current and former Mexican officials accused in US indictment of aiding drug trafficking - AP News (US News)
- Hegseth spars with lawmakers as Iran war’s price tag hits $25 billion - The Washington Post (US News)
- Google Cloud revenue is now 18% of Alphabet's business. Is this the beginning of the end of Google's search identity? - Fortune (Business)
- On the stand, Elon Musk can’t escape his own tweets - TechCrunch (Business)
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