state employees

Sarcastro offers our Honorable Phil Governor a bit of advice on how to decide which state employees get his budget-cutting buyout:

Cara Kumari gets some impressions of the buyout process from some state employees who attended today’s closed-press seminar:

From Joe White:

State officials made reporters leave an informational meeting about the “voluntary buyout plan” for state employees today in Nashville. State Finance Commissioner Dave Goetz claimed he was protecting the privacy of employees, whom the administration is trying to buyout.

WSMV reporter Cara Kumari shares an anecdote from her off:

Today, state employees will be able to attend two town hall meetings here in Nashville about the VBP. I am hoping to attend one of those meetings this afternoon.

Nashvillest reports on the robbing of John Q. Government worker to pay Miley:

Packets set to go out week of June 16

Wearing rain gear and stickers reading, “Guess what?

If water is pouring from the sky, but the governor doesn’t want to see it, is it really raining? From where I sit, it is raining in Tennessee.

In his January 2008 State of the State speech, Gov. Phil Bredesen told the people, “We expect our revenues this year to fall at least $180 million below the final projection adopted last spring.”

Once again, our favorite blogging state house reporter is on the case with some more news on the state employee buyout.

An anti-Walmart blog has some questions for folks in Tennessee government after it was revealed that Tennessee unilaterally withdrew from a partnership with Walmart that would have made our state capitol the first to undergo an extensive energy audit: