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Gov. Phil Bredesen on Friday announced a partnership with the Battelle Memorial Institute to establish a network of math and science programs in Tennessee schools.
A package for Tennessee's governor turned out not too jolly for staffers at the Capitol. Safety Department spokesman Mike Browning says officials evacuated the building for almost two hours Wednesday when the mail room found a package addressed to Gov. Phil Bredesen that contained moving parts.
TennCare officials say they will be forced to cut some enrollee benefits if Gov. Phil Bredesen asks them to make a 9 percent reduction in spending.
Gov. Phil Bredesen kicked off budget hearings Monday for a state spending plan that the Democrat said he anticipates will be the toughest to assemble since he came into office in 2003.
Gov. Phil Bredesen said Tuesday that a private investment deal is back on track following discussions between the company and the head of a legislative panel that questioned a state-backed biofuels initiative in East Tennessee.
Gov. Phil Bredesen says a legislative staff member who attacked a state-backed initiative to turn switchgrass into ethanol is playing politics and endangering chances to land a large investment for East Tennessee.
Tennessee's budget woes will likely make layoffs of state employees unavoidable, Gov. Phil Bredesen said Tuesday.
The renewable energy sector has been among the most promising areas of discussion while on a trade mission to China, Tennessee Gov. Phil Bredesen said Tuesday.
Tennessee Gov. Phil Bredesen said Tuesday a health care reform proposal in the U.S. Senate could cost the state more than $730 million.
The worst sound Eric Funkhouser said he has ever heard was a 10-second "voom" followed by a man's screams.
The nation's largest government-run utility ignored two small leaks that could have provided a warning years before a coal ash pond collapsed, flooding a neighborhood with a billion gallons of sludge, a former federal regulator contends.
Tennessee is on a "relatively short list" of sites in different U.S. states where Toyota Motor Corp. is looking to build an eighth North American vehicle assembly plant, Gov. Phil Bredesen said in a newspaper interview.
Hospital acquired infection in our communities must be addressed.No one has listened since I've started asking over five years ago about these hospital infections in our schools.
States Show How Not To Fix Health Care. By Kerri Houston Toloczko. 10/01/2009 07:04 PM ET Since the debate over the government takeover of medical care exploded onto the national stage, advocates of market-based, patient-centered reforms have pointed to the failed government health care systems of Canada and the U.K. as examples of what America should not replicate.
The Pompous or the Populists: Who Will Win the Healthcare Debate?Profit Care is more important than Patient Care in America.
Gov. Phil Bredesen has a history as a bagman for HMO's, raking in millions in the process. He also has gutted Tenncare, denying health to citizens that is needed and routhinely granted through Medicare in other states.
Tennessee Governor Phil Bredesen for Obama's VP?So with Democrats gathering this month in Denver for their national convention, the Scene offers its own critique of Bredesen in the public interest and in the hopes of saving Obama from his biggest mistake since he joined Jeremiah Wright's church.
First Rational Plan Presented to Fix Out-of-Control Super-Delegate MessThe Democratic Presidential nominating race has become fairly long & intense white knuckle politics at its most unexpected hour. Once the election fray becomes just Democrat vs Republican will you see the gloves really come off...
Verizon Wireless to Build $54 Million Regional Headquarters in Franklin, Tenn.Verizon Wireless to build it's new Regional Headquarters outside Nashville.
Democrat Centrists Take on the Left NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- At a moment when many Democratic activists are urging their leaders to be bolder and more confrontational with Republicans, the party's most influential centrists met Monday to call for more pragmatism and bridge-building.
I know that we think we're doing what the founding fathers wanted. We think we're running things based on the Constitution written so long ago. But let's step back for a minute.
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