Morning Links: 20 March 2008

Local label signs Red State Update, Dean nixes Bredesen's superdelegate idea, S&P lowers Clarcor, and more...

Email | Print By Geert De Lombaerde

Music Row meets superdelegates: Dualtone Music Group has signed Red State Update, the political comedy duo that has attracted a large YouTube following since being featured on CNN last summer.

Citing the slow U.S. economy, Standard & Poor's analyst Stewart Scharf has downgraded shares of Clarcor.

Democratic National Chairman Howard Dean is not a fan of the superdelegate convention proposed yesterday by Gov. Bredesen.

Speaking to an Orlando IT conference from Nashville, Al Gore yesterday renewed his call for a carbon tax while lowering income taxes as a way to tackle global warming.

Corrections Corp. of America wants to build a 3,000-bed prison near San Diego.

And finally, while Fred Thompson may have ridden off into the sunset of the political landscape, one of his former staffers is begging for a new horizon…