finance administration

It has now been 100 days since I made a rather routine open-records request to the Bredesen administration, and specifically Department of Finance & Administration public information officer Lola Potter, for access to the video taken of blasting (for that underground ballroom) at the governor's ma

It has now been 52 days since I made a rather routine open-records request to the Bredesen administration, and specifically Department of Finance & Administration public information officer Lola Potter, for the video taken of blasting (for that underground ballroom) at the governor's mansion const

The image above is a scan of a letter-to-the-editor published in today's Tennessean, questioning why Gov. Bredesen would rather cut spending on Pre-K education than cut the millions going to build a fancy underground ballroom at the governor's mansion.

It has now been 36 days since I made a rather routine open-records request to the Bredesen administration, and specifically Department of Finance & Administration public information officer Lola Potter, for video taken of blasting (for that underground ballroom) at the governor's mansion construct

I'm beginning to understand why the Tennessee Center for Policy Research felt it had to sue Lola Potter, the public info officer for the state Department of Finance & Administration, to force her to stop ignoring their legitimate open records requests for more than nine months.

Revenue data released this morning by the Tennessee Department of Finance & Administration indicates the state's revenue crisis is going to be twice as bad as the Bredesen administration had

Yesterday's story about that lawsuit filed against the Bredesen administration for ignoring multiple open-records requests for more than nine months reminded me of the scathing 187-page order handed down by a federal judge last fall

After nine months of its open-records requests being ignored by the Bredesen administration, the Tennessee Center for Policy Research's lawsuit to force the administration to release the records is, iron

Terry Frank has a report on a lawsuit filed by the Tennessee Center for Policy Research regarding the failure of the Tennessee Department of Finance & Administration - and, specifically, the department's spokesperson, Lola Potter, to comply with o