This is just the summary and it’s 37 pages long. (Sorry, it’s PDF) but if you want to see it in all of it’s glory, it’s here. The complete budget and reductions is here at Gov. Phil Bredesen’s website.
T. Sharp on Twitter (@newscoma) Steve Ross on Twitter (@vibinc) Steve Steffens on Twitter (@leftwingcracker)This is just the summary and it’s 37 pages long. (Sorry, it’s PDF) but if you want to see it in all of it’s glory, it’s here. The complete budget and reductions is here at Gov. Phil Bredesen’s website.
For over 27 months, State tax revenues have fallen below expectations causing extreme cuts in critical government services. Last week, Governor Phil Bredesen proposed removing a tax break on high priced items to help fill some of that gap. From the story: Currently Tennessee consumers get a slight break on high-priced items. Bredesen wants...
The question is do they use the money to save jobs or restoring conservation funds. Governor Phil Bredesen wants to restore conservation funds that have been diverted for the last two years, even though the money could be used to save state jobs. Whenever land changes hands in Tennessee, a small portion of the...
Tom Humphrey reports about appointments a “Criminal Justice Coordinating Committee”, appointed by Governor Bredesen. I was looking at the appointments and noticed something interesting. 9 of the 13 appointees are from Middle TN. In fact, 7 are from Davidson County alone. Below is the breakdown: West TN · A C Wharton, Shelby County, representing...
The Commercial Appeal reports that Memphis Mayor AC Wharton and Tennessee Governor Phil Bredesen are in talks about the healthcare situation in Memphis and West Tennessee. That may not necessarily be good news for The MED. The governor said he’s more concerned about how uninsured residents of Memphis and West Tennessee get medical care...
Tom Humphrey reports that Governor Bredesen says he’s unlikely to run for the US Senate after he leaves the Governor’s Mansion. Term-limited Gov. Phil Bredesen has a few ideas about what he wants to do once he leaves office, but says another political campaign likely isn’t among them. The 66-year-old Democrat said after a...
The Memphis Daily News reports that Mike Ritz goes medieval on Governor Bredesen, saying that the state’s underfunding of the MED harms minorities disproportionately. Shelby County Commissioner Mike Ritz has filed a formal civil rights discrimination complaint on behalf of minority populations in Memphis over Gov. Phil Bredesen’s distribution of federal reimbursements for uncompensated...
Tom Humphrey talks about the latest attempt to save charity hospitals such as THE MED. The Tennessee Hospital Association is floating the idea of a new “bed tax” on hospitals as a means of offsetting the impact of Gov. Phil Bredesen’s proposed budget cuts to TennCare. The new tax would work something like the...