Gov. Phil Bredesen’s timetable for what he has billed as a “major” commercial investment related to Tennessee’s biofuels program is about to run out.
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Tennessee Editor
Gov. Phil Bredesen’s timetable for what he has billed as a “major” commercial investment related to Tennessee’s biofuels program is about to run out.
[...]Chip Forrester has much love for Phil Bredesen:
Tennessee Democratic Party Chairman Chip Forrester applauds Gov. Phil Bredesen for using federal stimulus dollars to create much-needed jobs in Lauderdale County where the unemployment rate is nearly 19 percent, the highest in the state.
“Gov. Bredesen’s unique plan to use that money [...]
Tennessee Gov. Phil Bredesen plans to use federal stimulus money to create 175 jobs in Lauderdale County, which has the state’s highest unemployment rate.
Bredesen said Wednesday that the jobs include 50 highway maintenance worker positions within the state Transportation Department and 125 positions that will be filled [...]
Tom Humphrey gives you a press conference preview:
Gov. Phil Bredesen has scheduled an afternoon news conference today, apparently to announce a push for rapid action on a legislative package of education bills next month that could help the state collect as much as $600 million in special federal funding.
Bredesen [...]
Bill Mason, director of community affairs for Gov. Phil Bredesen, has told NashvillePost.com’s Ken Whitehouse that he is considering a run for the congressional seat being vacated by Rep. Bart Gordon.
Mason is a native of Rutherford County, lives in Robertson County, and worked in congress for 22 years [...]
Gov. Phil Bredesen is hosting a fundraising luncheon in Memphis today for the United Negro College Fund.
A similar event he held in Nashville earlier this fall raised $75,000.
[...]From a release:
Governor Phil Bredesen today appointed Gayle Ray to be the next Commissioner of the Department of Correction. Ray will assume her new role on January 1, 2010, following the departure of current Correction Commissioner George Little, who earlier this week announced he will leave Bredesen’s cabinet on December [...]
From a press release:
Governor Phil Bredesen today appointed Brigadier General Terry M. “Max” Haston as Tennessee’s 75th Adjutant General. Haston will replace Major General Gus L. Hargett, Jr., who announced his retirement earlier this year. Haston is currently the Assistant Adjutant General, Army, Tennessee National Guard.
“I’m pleased to announce the [...]
Gov. Phil Bredesen visited Chattanooga State on Tuesday for an hour-long, roundtable discussion with a diverse 12-student panel, including myself. The panel included student government representatives, transfer students, medical and media students, non-traditional students and three students who have moved here from other countries—namely, Honduras, Colombia and Taiwan—to attend college.
The [...]
The governor’s office announced Wednesday that Governor Phil Bredesen met with Cecil Johnson’s attorney, and he is not considering clemency in the case.
[...]And Phil Bredesen is all about it:
Tennessee Governor Phil Bredesen is “apoplectic” over the millions of dollars he believes the proposed federal health care bill would cost the Volunteer State, Senator Bob Corker said Wednesday in Chattanooga.
One of the things the legislation would do, the Republican senator told rotary [...]
Gov. Phil Bredesen visited Chattanooga State on Tuesday for an hour-long, roundtable discussion with a diverse 12-student panel, including myself. The panel included student government representatives, transfer students, medical and media students, non-traditional students and three students who have moved here from other countries—namely, Honduras, Colombia and Taiwan—to attend college.
The [...]
Students at Tennessee’s public colleges and universities could be facing a 5 percent tuition increase.
Tennessee Higher Education Commission executive director Richard Rhoda told Gov. Phil Bredesen at budget hearings Thursday that the tuition recommendation has been passed along to the administrators of the University of Tennessee system [...]
