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By CHARLES BOOTH

Former Tennessean columnist Tim Chavez is still not a big fan of Phil Bredesen:

Katie Allison Granju reporting:

Someone who has read the new state budget more closely than I have informs that it funds a $400 one-time bonus for state employees, teachers and higher education officials. It will be paid in October.

The Tennessee Democratic Party thinks Diane Black forgot to do something before she voted on the budget:

An interesting thing happened last night on the Tennessee Senate’s way to passing the state budget: Republican Caucus Chair Diane Black refused to declare Rule 13 before voting in favor of the budget.

Governor Bredesen may allow the Real Estate Trasfer Fees to be sucked into the general fund in order to balance the state budget.

He did this once before, caught hell for it, and made it up to future generations with a stupendous effort to preserve and protect some really important lands, The Sundquist Forest and Frozenhead among them. The problem this time is that Bredesen has only a couple of

Cara Kumari shares her experience when the lights went out on Capitol Hill today:

Gov. Bredesen spoke about the state budget today. You can read the prepared text here (PDF file).

Andy Sher has the details on what was originally though to be layoffs is now more like buyouts on new Bredesen hires.

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A new legislator makes a stirring appeal for strapped state budget funds to be spent in her district: