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Via the Times Free Press:

I'm going to share a story here about how a book is judged by its cover, something my homeless brothers and sisters know all too well.

Dru Fuller reports that 400 is the magic number the state needs to accept its employee buyout package before layoffs commence:

MT. PLEASANT — A former Mt.

From Joe White:

State officials made reporters leave an informational meeting about the “voluntary buyout plan” for state employees today in Nashville. State Finance Commissioner Dave Goetz claimed he was protecting the privacy of employees, whom the administration is trying to buyout.

By THEO EMERY • Staff Writer (Tennessean) • June 17, 2008

State workers will begin checking mailboxes after buyout packets went out Monday to about 12,000 employees, an effort to trim about 2,000 positions and cut $64 million from next year's budget.

Today is the day, Cara Kumari reports that the budget cutting state employee buyout packages will be mailed out today:

Tom Humphrey reveals the web of associations between the Bredesen administration and AT&T, a companies which was just awarded a 10 year contract with the state while other bids for the job remain unopened due to technical mistakes:

I understand the whole contracting process, and I understand the reality that failure to fill out just one little line is cause for bid rejection.  But have there ever been occasions when the state has allowed any state contract to be rebid in the interest of saving the taxpayers money?

Packets set to go out week of June 16