Tennessee: Bredesen: Incentives Already Offered (Chattanooga Times Free Press)
Tennessee business recruiters have already offered most of the $100 million that Gov. Phil Bredesen
wants lawmakers to set aside next year...
Budget
Cuts Won't Touch Fund for Recruiting Industry (Tennessean)
A $100 million state fund designed to help land new manufacturing and corporate headquarters for
Tennessee won't be cut despute the budget crisis...
KUB Considers 8 Percent Waste Water Rate Increase (Knoxville News Sentinel)
The Knoxville Utilities Board of Commissioners today approved on first reading an 8 percent waste
water rate increase as part of the upcoming fiscal year's $876 million budget,...
TDOT Project Launches Poster
Series of Knoxville Scenes (News-Sentinel/Mason)
Joel Anderson's poster for TDOT's SmartFIX40 project has triggered Anderson to introduce a series of
Knoxville-related posters...
Calvin Goes Underground for Stormwater Investigation (News Channel 9 Chattanooga)
Last week, a NewsChannel 9 investigation discovered a $100,000 fine against the city of
Chattanooga,...
TCRA Ready
to Pitch Airport Authority Concept to Owners (Kingsport Times-News)
BLOUNTVILLE - Tri-Cities Regional Airport officials are getting ready to hold a big town hall-style
meeting for the people who run the region's town halls...
Volkswagen Site Executives Were Courted in Chattanooga (Associated Press)
Volkswagen executives looking to build an assembly plant site in Tennessee, Alabama or Michigan
visited Chattanooga and met with officials...
Gallatin Lands Corporate Headquarters for Shoals Technology Group (Nashville Biz Journal)
A Muscle Shoals, Ala.-based manufacturer of solar energy panel components will construct a new
company headquarters in Gallatin,...
TDOT To Fix 'Dead Man's Curve'
(Associated Press)
Numerous Crashes Occur on Route 63 in Putnam County...The Tennessee Department of Transportation
announced a project to straighten "Dead Man's Curve" on State Route 62 in eastern Putnam County...
Company
Chosen to Manage River Port (Dyersburg State Gazette)
The Northwest Tennessee Regional Port Authority on Wednesday approved a Louisiana company to operate
the Cates Landing River Port terminal after initial construction is complete...
Tenn.
Officials to Stop Highway Work Over Weekend (Memphis Daily News)
Tennessee Transportation Commissioner Gerald Nicely has cleared the highways of construction work for
the Memorial Day weekend...
Road Construction Won't Slow
Memorial Day Travelers (WTVC-TV Chattanooga)
Road construction won't slow travelers through Tennessee this Memorial Day weekend...
Lawmakers pass $27.7 Billion Budget After 'Bunker' Brawl (Nashville City Paper)
Concluding a more than four-month session, the General Assembly approved a scaled-back, $27.7 billion
state budget Wednesday...
TDOT Suspends Bridge Painting Following Friday's Bizarre Accident (WDEF Chattanooga)
TDOT has suspended painting work on the Missionary Ridge bridges over I-24 following last Friday's
bizarre accident...
Dickel Distillery Keeps Spring Water Supply (Tennessean)
The George Dickel Distillery will continue to get water from Cascade Spring, even though the city
that controls the spring is connecting to a new water system...
Bypass River Site
Picked For Fuel Terminal (Clarksville Leaf Chronicle)
A new TEPPCO river-to-road fuel storage and transportation terminal planned for the Cumberland River
near the Bypass could re-energize conversation about building a multi-use barge port...
Mt. Pleasant Spill Creates River of Sewage (Tennessean)
Officials in Mount Pleasant say more than 1 million gallons of sewage leaked from a plastic pipe that
split open,...
Airport Authority Would Restructure TCRA Ownership (Bristol Herald-Courier)
Forming an airport authority would change how ownership of the Tri-Cities Regional Airport is
structured but not who owns it...
McGhee Tyson to Expand Taxiway (Knoxville News-Sentinel)
The Metropolitan Knoxville Airport Authority approved contract Wednesday to build a 1,4000 foot
taxiway at McGhee Tyson Airport...
Talks Begin on Raising
Normandy Dam (Tennessean)
Officials are considering whether to add 5 feet to the height of Normandy Dam so it could hold more
water...
Money
Limited For New Road Projects (Chattanooga Times Free-Press/Hightower)
Southeast Tennessee counties didn't get any new state road projects this year because the state
doesn't have money to pay for them,...
Postal Service to
Build Massive Center Near Airpot (Nashville Post)
Local office of national developer to oversee construction....The U.S. Postal Service plans to build
a 626,000-square-foot processing and distribution center...
Chattanooga: Cable Blamed in Overpass Fatality (Chattanooga Times-Free
Press)
Seminole Equipment Inc. workers waited about an hour Friday afternoon before learning a coworker had
been killed in a construction accident--...
Russians With Eye on Own Tourism Visit Tenn. to Get Tips on Roads (Tenn./Sanchez)
Russian delegates who traveled halfway around the world to Tennessee this week didn't come for the
country music or good Souther-style cooking...
Russians Look to TDOT For Road
Help (WSMV-TV Nashville)
Private Contractors Visit Road, Bridge Projects Diplomats from Russia are in Tennessee...
Repairs
Scheduled for Center Hill Dam (WSMV)
Work is scheduled to begin next week on the leaky Center Hill Dam...
SmartFIX40 Attracts International Attention (WBIR-TV Knoxville)
A delegation from overseas is learning about Tennessee road construction, including the project to
widen a stretch of I-40 through Knoxville...
Owner of Condemned Land Files Federal Suite to STop Port (Lake County Banner)
One of the land owners facing condemnation of her property for the Cates Landing river port has filed
a federal lawsuit to stop the port...
Program Offers
Laborers Training to Work on Highway Projects (TFP/Lazenby)
The Tennessee Department of Transportation has teamed up with the Urban League of Greater Chattanooga
to provide training that could lead participants to highway construction jobs...
Shelby County's Commercial Sales on Decline (Memphis Daily News)
It took a pair of West Coast companies to give Memphis commercial real estate a shot in the arm in
April...
Editorial: Candidates
Say 'fill'-er-up With a Shallow Gas-Tax (Tennessean)
Instead of a "gas tax holiday," what this nation needs is a tax on pandering in the presidential
election...
Guest Columnist:
Revenue Needed For Road Maintenance (Tennessean)
Among pundits, news commentators and certainly candidates seeking the presidency, there has been much
discussion of a federal "gas-tax holiday" that has prompted debate coast to coast...
Improvements Cost Far More When Delayed (Tennessean)
If an area business were to knowingly dump 16 million gallons of raw sewage into our local drinking
water source, it would be hauled into federal court,...
Projects Have Helped Restore Watershed (Tennessean)
Since 2002, 72 miles of streams in Davidson County--inlcluding 33 miles of the Cumberland River--that
were previously identified as contaminated because of wastewater overflow....
Nashville Should Not Put Off Serious Wastewater Issues (Tennessean)
Metro officials should strongly consider rate increases to cover vital needs in water and sewer
infrastructure,....
Editorial: Will Commission's Vote On Toll Road? (Knoxville News-Sentinel)
The Knox County Commission recently voted against an interstate toll road that would bypass
Knoxville, but it is unclear at this point how much influence that vote will have on the state Department of Transportation's final...
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