Free Press Lets Go Of Its Wang
Posted on March 24, 2009 at 11:56 pm
Bad news in the Tennessee media world today as Post Politics has learned that workhorse Washington, DC correspondent Herman Wang has been let go today from the Chattanooga Times Free Press.
A graduate of both Northwestern’s undergraduate environmental science program as well as the Medill School of Journalism, Wang covered county government in Jacksonville, North Carolina for the Daily News and city government for the Times Free Press before taking the assignment covering Tennessee and Georgia’s representatives in the nation’s capital.
Apart from his journalism, Wang is probably best known as the reporter who surreptitiously emailed Sen. Alexander’s then press secretary Lee Pitts while restrained in the middle of an apparent home invasion robbery prompting the Alexander aide to have police dispatched to his DC residence.
UPDATE: Joe Lance reports that four Free Pressers in total were given the sack. The paper’s tweeter says that an explanation is forthcoming.
Inevitable?
Posted on December 4, 2008 at 11:34 amJeff Woods takes the Dean administration line and suggests Metro Schools drop its director search:
It’s time to give it up. Instead, the board is talking about signing the new schools director to a three- or four-year contract. When Mayor Karl Dean takes control of the district next year–an event that’s almost inevitable–then we probably will wind up buying out this contract to get rid of this superintendent. That’s wasting money when the district is facing spending cuts and layoffs
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Life After Death: Former Tennessean Columnist Reflects On The Layoffs
Posted on at 8:32 amTim Chavez consoles his newly sacked former colleagues with his story of life after Gannett:
First, God, saved my life. So my my life is dedicated to his will and the people around us in need. Yes, I write a blog that no one really reads. I am a nobody and technically a failure at 50 years of age. I can’t help people like I could when I was a columnist in a newspaper that reached a lot of people.
But God still provides us opportunities. Yes, I’m still a failure. I make little money compared to what I did as a columnist with a long career. I feel shame and am glad my parents are not alive to see me this way. But I still believe God kept me alive for a reason.
TNGOP Engages In “Class Warfare” Over Budget
Posted on May 7, 2008 at 2:39 pmGOP Communications Czar Bill Hobbs throws a little dust on the Governor for announcing employee layoffs for workaday bureaucrats while leaving his top dog political appointees’ pay raises intact:
“Upper management making out like bandits and getting lavish party facilities while the rank-and-file stand to lose everything.Gov. Bredesen promised voters he’d run Tennessee like a business. We didn’t know he meant Enron,” said Hobbs.
Budget Breakdown
Posted on at 12:18 pmTom Humphrey breaks down the proposals the Governor outlined in his press conference today at the Capitol:
Gov. Phil Bredesen is proposing elimination of 2,011 state government jobs, roughly 5 percent of the executive branch work force.
He’s hopeful that most of the reductions can occur through voluntary buyouts.
The governor said in a press conference this morning the layoffs will provide about $64 million of the $468 million in cuts needed to trim his original budget plan, outlined earlier this year.
The $468 million figure is the low end of the shortfall projected by the State Funding Board, whose economists said it could grow to as much as $580 million.
Bredesen said his planned cuts would need to be revisited if the most optimistic deficit projection falls through.
He said he has asked higher education to make $55 million in cuts but will let the University of Tennessee and Board of Regents systems decide specifics.
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