Tennessee on Thursday November 05, 2009

TN: U.S. takes back $190 million in Tennessee road funds
By Richard Locker, The Commercial Appeal, The Tennessean (Nashville)
After sending Tennessee $500 million in economic recovery money to fast-track scores of highway projects earlier this year, the federal government has rescinded $190 million from its regular transportation funding to the state.
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TN: TN legislators may scrap $70M biofuels project
By Chas Sisk, The Tennessean (Nashville)
State lawmakers say they might pull the plug on a University of Tennessee effort to produce ethanol from switchgrass, after school officials said it has changed business partners, scaled down production and now plans to start out using corncobs, not switchgrass.
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TN: Nashville sued in convention center eminent domain case
By Michael Cass , The Tennessean (Nashville)
Tower Investments, which owns a key site for the proposed downtown convention center, sued a Metro agency Wednesday for refusing to share records of appraisals it's using to acquire the property.
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TN: Blasts begin at rock slide site
By Jon Ostendorff, Asheville Citizen-Times , Knoxville News Sentinel
HARMON DEN, N.C. -- The highway department has said it will take at least four months to get two lanes open using the eastbound side of the interstate.
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TN: Bredesen OK'd $10K for slaying info, but DA didn't announce for 3 weeks
By Don Jacobs, Knoxville News Sentinel
An announcement that the governor had approved a $10,000 reward for information in the slaying of an East Knox County shopkeeper sat neglected for more than three weeks in the Knox County District Attorney's General office.
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TN: TWRA investigates man's death on Cherokee Lake
By Staff Reports, Knoxville News Sentinel
BEAN STATION, Tenn. — The body of a 60-year-old man was pulled from Cherokee Lake on Wednesday and authorities are trying to determine how he died, according to the Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency.
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Report: 11 states emerging from recession
By David Harrison, Special to Stateline.org
It’s going to be a long, hard climb out of the current economic downturn for many recession-ridden states hit hard by the housing crash, unemployment and shrinking revenues. But as the national economy starts its slow recovery, 11 states and the District of Columbia are showing signs of emerging from the recession, according to a new report.
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