Tennessee lawmakers and transportation officials agree the state will soon be primed for a discussion on finding alternative ways of pumping funds into roads and other government-run transportation systems.
Those ideas could include finding…
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Cattle Producers Urged to Vote in Beef Referendum Dec. 7 – 8
NASHVILLE, Tenn. – Tennessee cattle producers will have…
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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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Both Gov. Bill Haslam and the House chairman of the transportation committee say the state will not try to implement an increase to the gas tax now but there will be a need to down the road.
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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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Gov. Bill Haslam says he needs more time to determine whether he’ll support Tennessee Lt. Gov. Ron Ramsey’s call for requiring jobless Tennesseans taking government unemployment benefits to document they’re actively looking for work.…
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Lt. Gov. Ron Ramsey said Tennesseans collecting benefits should be held to tougher documentation requirements to prove they’re seeking work. A Department of Labor spokesman says close monitoring would cost in the neighborhood of $100 a person. Currently, the state doesn’t require that recipients document work searches until they’ve taken assistance payments for more than 79 weeks.
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Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam said Wednesday he sees how presidential candidate Herman Cain’s “9-9-9″ tax plan would be attractive to voters looking for simplicity, but Haslam is not identifying his favorite Republican candidate in…
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The lieutenant governor says he’s unsure why they were ever exempted from having a pic issued by the DMV to begin with. Ramsey said he’s in the process of looking at the history of the provision.
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Democratic lawmakers heard ideas around taxpayer funding to promote Tennessee, a museum focused on African-American music, and the state’s education system during their jobs tour Tuesday in Middle Tennessee.
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