tva board

This isn’t good. No, I’m serious.

With cost pressures stretching its resources, the TVA Board today approved a 2009 budget that includes $12.613 billion to cover operating expenses and $2.088 billion in capital investments.

The invaluable Michael Silence gets the hat tip this morning! He links to a Knoxville News Sentinel story reporting that, effective October 1st, TVA is increasing rates. Remember this post when you vote this November!

The invaluable Michael Silence gets the hat tip this morning! He links to a Knoxville News Sentinel story reporting that, effective October 1st, TVA is increasing rates.  Remember this post when you vote this November!

Chris Sanders criticizes a recent profile of Senate Republican Conference Chair Lamar Alexander for not including one of his most recent achievements: a successful

The Tennessee Valley Authority’s only Democrat and first female board member steps down:

As the President’s nominees are blocked Tennessee Democrats look forward to the results of November’s election:

Otis Sanford points out the richness in the irony of the political cudgel that Lamar Alexander is using to beat over the head of Democratic Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid:

Our senior senator is none too pleased with what he sees as politically motivated hold ups of two nomination to the TVA:

Depends on who you ask:

Sen. Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn., co-chairman of the Congressional TVA Caucus, called the delay “petty politics.”

“The people of the Tennessee Valley need to know that the Democratic leader (Sen. Harry Reid, D-Nev.) is holding up the TVA board,” Sen. Alexander said. “He’s damaging our capacity to grow new jobs and have clean ai

WATE anchor Gene Patterson on U.S Senate candidate Mike Padgett’s “grit”:

Padgett - during his years as Knox County Clerk - developed a network of personal and professional relationships with other clerks around the state. Those clerks are, no doubt, tied into their counties’ political structures. Their support could help.