Latest stories by Dave Flessner
- BlueCross eliminating 118 jobs in August
- Saturday, July 4, 2009
- A 43-year relationship at BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee is breaking up.
- Tennessee: EPA approves shipment of TVA coal ash to Alabama
- Thursday, July 2, 2009
- The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced today it has approved TVA’s plan to transfer up to 3 million cubic yards of coal ash from the Kingston Fossil Plant to an Alabama landfill.
- TRA elects Kyle chairman; Hill named as director
- Wednesday, July 1, 2009
- The Tennessee Regulatory Authority directors today elected Sara Kyle as chairman.
- Tennessee: Landfills approved for Kingston coal ash
- Wednesday, July 1, 2009
- State regulators announced today that four East Tennessee landfills have been approved to receive small amounts of coal ash from a major spill last December at a TVA power plant.
- Tennessee: TVA 'fares poorly' in containing expenses, report says
- Monday, June 29, 2009
- Operating and maintenance costs at the TVA are higher than most comparable utilities, even though the federal utility is able to borrow money at lower rates than other privately owned utilities, a report says.
- Tennessee: New climate for coal
- Sunday, June 28, 2009
- The Tennessee Valley Authority was created to harness the power of the Tennessee River and has invested the most money in its nuclear power plants.
- Chattanooga: Passage tangled up in lawsuits
- Sunday, June 28, 2009
- Chattanooga’s repair of the Passage downtown is destroying evidence needed to determine what caused problems in the first place, according to the waterfront monument’s initial designers and builders.
- Manufacturing makeover
- Despite loss of foundries and mills, VW and the nuclear industry to fuel factory revival.
- Sunday, June 28, 2009
- Over the past decade, Chattanooga has shed more than a fourth of its manufacturing jobs and lost its biggest remaining iron foundries and textile mills.
- Wired for competition
- Utilities fight for viewers of new video services.
- Sunday, June 28, 2009
- The digital age will bring new options for Chattanoogans this year in how they buy home entertainment and communication services.
- Dalton unemployment eases; state rate still high
- Friday, June 26, 2009
- Unemployment in metropolitan Dalton, Ga., declined for a second consecutive month in May, the Georgia Department of Labor reported Thursday.
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