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NASHVILLE, Tenn.- The Democratic Party is vowing to fix the candidate review process that allowed Mark Clayton to become the Democratic nominee for U.S. Senate. The promise came after one of the candidates who lost to Clayton promised to sue the party. Democrat Larry Crim, who finished fourth in last week's primary, says party leaders should have researched Mark Clayton and kept him off the ballot. "Mr. Forrester did not do his duty to screen this democratic candidate," Larry Crim said. Crim blames party chairman Chip Forrester for the embarrassing mess. A letter from state Coordinator of Elections, Mark Goins,...

HOW OUR CITIES STACK UP Presumably, since municipal by-laws are approved by a vote of council, they all made sense to someone at some time. Nevertheless, in city halls across the country, regulatory insanity abounds. Herewith, the National Post's top ten wacky by-laws: 1. MONTREAL According to a 1996 by-law, it is explicitly forbidden to make or store a nuclear weapon, under pain of a $300 fine for a first offence, $500 for a second, and up to $1,000 for subsequent violations. This penalty scheme is identical to that for home owners who allow weeds to grow in their yards....