Gov. Bill Haslam will announce his proposed budget on Capitol Hill Monday. The state anticipates collecting about $300 million more in tax revenues next fiscal year than this year as the economy continues to recover.
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The Republican state representative from Kingsport says he’ll push the House Gov-Ops committee to subpoena investigation records into the legislative activities of he and another lawmaker.
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Some Tennessee state government agency bosses are approaching Gov. Bill Haslam’s budget hearings with the idea of grabbing at additional handouts beyond what he’s indicated the state may be able to afford.
But the…
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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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Former Gov. Phil Bredesen said a report critical of the tax variances awarded by former Revenue Commissioner Reagan Farr was motivated by politics. Bredesen made the comments following a discussion Tuesday with students at the University of the South in Sewanee.
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Gov. Bill Haslam said he had been told specific legislation would be required for the federal government to release $82 million in TennCare funds owed to the state. Haslam said getting such a bill passed “will be difficult.” Cuts to Tennessee’s version of Medicaid are expected.
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Members of a House subcommittee are studying the implications of a bill that limits when nurse practitioners and other trained caregivers who are not licensed physicians can administer drugs injected within a half-inch of the spinal cord.
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Democrats said their recently concluded week-long “jobs tour” was time and energy well spent — and Tennesseans can expect some practical policy ideas that should attract bipartisan support as a result.
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Minority party lawmakers are touring the Volunteer State next week in search of ideas for how to ease unemployment. It’s an entirely worthwhile endeavor, said Tennessee’s Republican governor, who Friday wished Democrats well and encouraged them to spend a lot of time consulting with “individuals and companies who are willing to put their capital at risk to grow.”
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Press Release from Tennessee Right to Life, Sept. 2, 2011:
Dreyzehner Apparent Ally of Abortion-Promoting Planned Parenthood
Governor Haslam’s announcement today of Dr. John Dreyzehner drew quick response from the state’s leading pro-life organization…
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Maybe they will begin calling them “McWherter Day” dinners.
The Tennessee Democratic Party has announced that its state Jackson Day dinner in Nashville will be Oct. 1 and will celebrate the life of { 0 comments }
