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Lee and I took part in some media training this weekend at Cinemark Tinseltown this weekend.  What?  Is watching a movie really training?   

Well, if Revenue Commissioner Reagan Farr can call song and dance skits training, I’ll call watching a movie training.

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.

On shifting Tenncare funds from nursing homes to home-based care:

“People simply need more choices,” Bredesen said. “In the months ahead we’re going to fundamentally restructure how our state deals with long-term care in the TennCare program.”

Gov. Phil Bredesen addressed the Tennessee Press Association winter convention in Nashville this morning and announced that he would be proposing legislation, the "Long Term Care Community Choices Act," that would begin to shift TennCare nursing home dollars to home-based care for elderly and disabled people on TennCare who would prefer it.

The governor talked about how home-based care is less costly, and more preferable for most elderly people.

For the number crunchers out there here is some info from the fiscal review committee.

Governor's mansion update

Commissioner Goetz and the State Building Commission appeared before Fiscal Review to allow the committee to ask questions about the improvements planned for the Governor's residence. Following is a breakdown of the dollars spent or/planned to be spent:

State: $3,445,369
Bonds: $9,379,631
Other: $6,400,000

TOTAL: $19,225,000 (Tennessee Res

Bill Hobbs, via a Republican Party presser, argues that the money being spend on the Executive Residence renovation could be used instead to