State Representative Mike Sparks easily won the Republican nomination in the state House District 49 race. This despite what he calls negative print media coverage...

Sparks defeated Rutherford County School Board member Aaron Holladay by 1,350 votes (78% to 22%). The Smyrna Republican says he hopes to continue the work he started in Nashville in 2010...

Sparks will face Democrat Brandon Thomas, who ran unopposed, in November.