Morning Brief: Haslam signs budget, Council examines $500,000 gang task force request

City Council examines $500,000 request for gang task force—Times Free Press

Gov. Bill Haslam signs state's $31.5 billion budget—TN Report

Haslam says media misinterpreting "gateway sex" law—WPLN

3rd District candidates to present platforms—Nooga

Tennessee freshman lawmakers who vowed change are lavish in mailings—Tennessean

Bill Taylor describes Southern Democrat values—Times Free Press

Tennessee Bureau of Investigation report shows crime in schools down—Nooga

Superintendent Rick Smith asks for cash for STEM school—Times Free Press

House Speaker John Boehner draws line in the sand on debt—Wall Street Journal

Export-Import Bank reauthorized by Senate—Washington Post

Japan to honor Sen. Lamar Alexander of Tennessee—AP

Barack Obama raises $43.6 million in April—Politico

George W. Bush endorses Mitt Romney—Washington Post