Less than 8 percent of initial unemployment claims are disputed in Tennessee. Of those that are, 68 percent are ruled in favor of the employer, a figure that contrasts sharply with assertions made recently by the state’s Republican lieutenant governor.
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News Release from Amazon.com; Dec. 22, 2011:
Nashville, TN – Dec. 22, 2011 – Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam and Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) today announced Amazon’s plans to open two new fulfillment centers in Tennessee,…
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Gov. Bill Haslam wants an independent review of the state’s new, and controversial, system of grading teachers. “If you don’t consistently re-evaluate it, you’re not doing your job.”
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Liquor Lobby Receives Lump of Coal Award for Thwarting Wine in Grocery Stores
NASHVILLE – The Beacon Center of Tennessee (formerly the Tennessee…
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Gov. Bill Haslam has said little about the particulars of what he expects to write into next year’s state budget plan. But he hinted Monday that he’s agreeable to permanently stashing away $21 million…
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Gov. Bill Haslam is scheduled to drop in on the 90th annual statewide conference of the Tennessee Farm Bureau today in Cool Springs.
The governor’s thinking on the state Department…
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Bill Haslam has spent the last two days swapping notes with fellow Republican governors across the country and wearing his business-minded leadership model on his sleeve.
Just a few miles away from
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Gov. Bill Haslam says he hopes not to have to cut a full 5 percent from each agency’s state budget, but officials at the Department of Environment and Conservation warn that reductions to their spending plan would leave “federal money on the table.”
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A task force made up of House Republicans plans to recommend a handful of economic development reforms in the coming weeks, although the panel chairman says those suggestions are currently short on specifics.
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Rep. Tony Shipley, a subcommittee chairman, recently grilled members of the state nursing board about how they handle nurse suspensions — like those over which the two legislators are being investigated for using improper influence to reverse.
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The Mississippi governor said companies had told him that the climate for “lawsuit abuse” in different states was a factor in their decisions on relocation and plant closures. “It was killing us on getting companies to come to our state,” Barbour said at a National Governors Association regional summit in Nashville Monday.
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Lt. Gov. Ron Ramsey said last week that if a so-called “national solution” isn’t found for collecting sales taxes from online retailers it threatens to push Tennessee toward an income tax, which he strongly…
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