ON THE CAMPAIGN TRAIL: The Southern Baptist Convention not sold on Fred Thompson, Bill Theobold reports in the Leaf Chronicle.
LOCAL RACES: Regionals are continuing to comb through FEC reports, reading the tea leaves on individual congressional races. Ellen Ferguson in the Oshkosh (Wisc.) Northwestern; and Ben Stein is helping fellow comedian Al Franken campaign despite their political differences, Frederick Fromer reports in the Post Bulletin.
APPOINTMENTS: A retired Utah police chief will be FEMA's new law enforcement advisor, reports Suzanne Struglinski in the Deseret News and Thomas Burr in the Salt Lake Tribune.
HEARINGS AND MARKUPS: Noelle Straub in the Missoulian reports on a contentious hearing to examine deignating as wilderness 23 million acres of land in five Western states; Lesley Clark in the Miami Herald covers a House Foreign Affairs Committee hearing on human trafficking; Aaron Sadler in the Arkansas News Bureau reports on support for research & technology centers; Herb Jackson in the Bergen Record reports on a hearing to examine the EPA cleanup of some contaminated New Jersey sites; and Steve Teatreault reports in the Las Vegas Review-Journal on the Senate Environment and Public Works plan to examine the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste project.
BILL INTRODUCTIONS: Malia Rulon reports in the Cincinati Enquirer on proposed legislation to allow a historic Ohio and Mississippi river steamboat to stay afloat.
FENCE POLITICS: Members of Congress want to keep Mexicans from illegally entering the country, and they want to do it with U.S. steel, Brett Lieberman reports in the Patriot-News.
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