Yesterday, SB0083 passed the Tennessee State Senate on a vote of 18 to 13.
While some will say that vote fell along party lines because of its stance on a “prevailing wage” (what some have referred to as a minimum wage), my “no” vote had absolutely nothing to do with a minimum wage but everything to [...]
By JAMES CLARK
Editor for the Southern Standard
(McMinnville, Tenn.)
Local governments would be forbidden from imposing a minimum wage higher than the federal rate of $6.55 an hour under a bill that passed yesterday in the Tennessee Senate.
According to state Sen. Eric Stewart (D-Belvidere), the bill is a response to action in Memphis where officials voted to [...]
Intercity Bus Grant to Expand Bus Service to More Tennesseans
March 11, 2009
NASHVILLE – Governor Phil Bredesen today awarded $237,542 in federal transit grant funds to the Southeast Tennessee Human Resources Agency to expand intercity bus service in southeast Tennessee including daily service in Bledsoe, Grundy, Marion, Rhea and Sequatchie Counties. The funds will be used [...]
March 11, 2009
NASHVILLE – Governor Phil Bredesen today awarded $100,662 in federal transit grant funds to the Upper Cumberland Human Resource Agency to expand intercity bus service along the Cumberland Plateau in Putnam, Clay, Pickett, Fentress, Overton, Jackson, Smith, Cumberland, Dekalb, White, Warren and Van Buren Counties. The funds will be used to provide Tennessee’s [...]