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This is a compilation of Tennessee news and political stories assembled daily by staffers in Gov. Bill Haslam’s office. Haslam Names IBM Exec Chief Operating Officer (TN Report) Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam today announced Greg Adams will join...

When news broke late last year of a mass shooting in San Bernardino, California, most people in the rest of the country, and even the state, probably had to search a map to figure out where the city was. I knew exactly, having grown up in the next-door...

“Freeman House is a former commercial salmon fisher who has been involved with a community-based watershed restoration effort in northern California for more than 25 years. He is a co-founder of the Mattole Salmon Group and the Mattole Restoration...

“Ocian in view! Oh! The Joy!,” William Clark wrote in his journal on November 7, 1805 as he viewed what he believed was the Pacific Ocean, as the Corps of Discovery reached the broad estuary of the Columbia River, 20 miles from the coast. Clark’s exhilaration...

California Emerges The epic story of the founding of the Golden State NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY, SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION / ART RESOURCE, NY California’s “Bonaparte,” explorer John C. Frémont The founding of California was an adventure, an epic, a...