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From the AP:

Lawmakers plan to divert land conservation money to help close a shortfall in the Tennessee state budget.

The $15 million hole in the spending plan was created after lawmakers rejected an administration plan to end a tax exemption on certain family-owned businesses.

Fifteen million dollars worth of “technical correction” just went out the window according to John Rodgers:

The provision would have eliminated a tax break for commercial real estate holdings of Family Owned Non-Corporate Entities, or FONCEs. A limited liability company is a non-corporate entity.

Jim Ridley reports on the film community’s new lobby in Tennessee:

Jim Ridley reports on the film community’s new lobby in Tennessee:

Cara Kumari liveblogged the Governor’s comments to the press in the lead up to his discussion of the budget tonight before a joint session of the legislature.

A Wall Street Journal editorial discussing how Tennessee picks it judges touches off a flurry of post from the right side of the blogosphere. From the editorial:

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

the next battle in the Voter ID arena appears to be in Missouri, where “fears of illegal immigrants voting” is fueling the Show Your Papers! people.

Charles Peters of the Washington Monthly points out in the Washington Post delineates:

A coalition of Tennessee home-schoolers and church-related schools have beaten back an attempt by a group of Democrat lawmakers and Tennessee Department of Education bureaucrats to declare their diplom