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This is a compilation of Tennessee news and political stories assembled daily by staffers in Gov. Bill Haslam’s office. Editorial: Higher ed’s new ‘transfer down’ plan makes sense (Jackson Sun) We continue to watch, and applaud...

On election night 2006, Dick DeVos, the bronzed, starched 51-year-old scion of Michigan’s wealthiest family, paced to a lectern in the dim ballroom of the Sheraton Hotel in Lansing to deliver the speech that every candidate dreads. The Michigan gubernatorial...

Happy Black Friday. Listen to Playbook in 90 Seconds http://bit.ly/2fZwUjR ... Subscribe on iTunes http://apple.co/2eX6Eay KELLYANNE CONWAY retweeted a POLITICO story about Donald Trump’s loyalists warning him not to choose Rudy Giuliani as secretary...

There is so much happening in Champaign-Urbana over the winter holidays this December that we’re giving you a head start. We’ve got the lowdown on all the family-friendly Christmas, winter, New Year’s Eve and other holiday...

I would like to say on his behalf that Colson Whitehead that he is overjoyed to be here, even if he does not show it. “I have a good poker face,” Whitehead wrote in Noble Hustle, his book about gambling and Las Vegas, “because I am half dead inside....