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State Takes 14 Months to Close 2008-09 Budget Books

by Andrea Zelinski| Aug. 27, 2010

Auditors this month finally wrapped up the final two accounting elements required to finish out the budget year, an exercise that was supposed to have been competed in March.

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New TN ‘First to the Top’ Website Omits Ongoing Spending Details

by Andrea Zelinski| Aug. 23, 2010

The state’s Race to the Top budget is outlined, but lacks specifics on which contractors are hired for what work, and how each school will allocate its share of the money.

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Ramsey Now Open to Granting Williams’ Fish Wish

by Andrea Zelinski| Aug. 19, 2010

If state revenues perk up by the next legislative session, the lieutenant governor says he’ll fully support the Carter County hatchery project, which was formerly referred to as an obvious example of “pork” by GOP lawmakers.

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Farming for Votes

by Mark Todd Engler| Aug. 12, 2010

Knoxville Mayor and GOP gubernatorial nominee Bill Haslam told Tennessee Farm Bureau members that leaner government will benefit rural businesses, and the state’s economy as a whole. But agriculture grants and biofuels subsidies wouldn’t necessarily be on the chopping block, he added.

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Lynn Sees Gap Spanning Beavers’ Public Words, Legislative Deeds

by Andrea Zelinski| Jul. 22, 2010

And a Democrat in the state Senate Dist. 17 race is capitalizing on the region’s long list of decrepit state bridges, too, promising the issue will live on long past primary election day Aug. 5.

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State Golf Courses Still Laying Up Short of Profitability

by Andrea Zelinski| Jul. 16, 2010

TCPR says government-funded golf is an albatross around taxpayers’ necks. But the state claims the courses are leaving less of a divot in Tennessee’s budget than the free-market think tank suggests.

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Infant Mortality Funding Debate Lives On

by Andrea Zelinski| Jul. 2, 2010

Lawmakers may have approved funding this year for an office coordinating grants to reduce the number of babies dying in Tennessee, but it will almost certainly come under scrutiny again in 2011.

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State Falling Behind on Bookkeeping Duties

by Andrea Zelinski| Jul. 1, 2010

Tennessee is five months late in closing out the 2008-09 fiscal year. The U.S. Department of Education says it may suspend certain payments to the state if the annual audit isn’t turned in.

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Government Fat in TCPR’s Line of Fire

by Mark Todd Engler| Jun. 29, 2010

The fifth edition of the Tennessee Center for Policy Research’s “Pork Report” is out. State and local politicians misspent a total of more than $260 million over the past year, says the fiscally conservative-minded think tank.

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Bredesen Formally Backs McWherter

by Mike Morrow| Jun. 23, 2010

When it comes to jobs, the economy and public education, the only Democrat left standing in the 2010 gubernatorial race “gets it,” says the governor.

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