expenditures

The Bedford County Board of Education passed its budget for the 2008-09 school year at its regular meeting last night, with total expenditures expected to increase by more than $4 million. Last...

Yes, our esteemed Governor Bunker is forced to cut State jobs to save save teh budget. NTTAWWT, but I think he should have kept a lid on all State…expenditures, for both of his elected terms. It seems that the lid came off after that re-election; legacy-building was in the plans.
Now, the layoffs are scaring [...]

Legislators and the Governor are at odds over the details of the buyout offers Gov. Bredesen wants to give state employees in order to cut reoccurring expenditures:

In case you missed it, the final p-card audit has been submitted with Mayor Ragsdale's responses to questioned expenditures. WBIR has a copy.

As thousands of Tennesseans cut back on spending the past few months to teach Gov.

John McCain is backtracking on his tough talk over earmarks, first ensuring that Israel (which has a GDP per capita of $28,000...just under Great Britain) will continue to get their slice of the pie, and now he is saying that impoverished communities will still get to put their hand in t

Wade Munday, communications director of the Democratic party for Tennessee said "It is clear that the congresswoman understands as little about our present fiscal situation as she does her own campaign account."

Here is the "fact" sheet put out by Blackburn:

• $102,044 in unreported contributions

Politicians are scrambling to figure out how best to use our state’s lottery surplus:

“We started out so very conservative with expenditures,” said Rep. Les Winningham, D-Huntsville, chairman of the House Education Committee. “The reserve has got to be used in some way, and we’ve just got to determine how.”

Criticizes members of own party for “exorbitant spending”

Republican House Caucus Chairman Representative Glen Casada (R-College Grove) yesterday called out members of his own party for “exorbitant spending” for voting to authorize out-of-session expenditures by the executive branch of Tennessee’s government. The GOP leader’s attack is the latest move that highlights demarcated lines between Rep