Governor Invested In Company Getting $330 Million Contract
(Story originally created June 10, 2013)NASHVILLE, Tenn. - Does Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam have a financial stake in a massive new contract to outsource the management of state buildings?That's the...
View ArticleState Rental Car Bills Riddled With Questionable Charges
(Story originally created June 3, 2013)NASHVILLE, Tenn. - An exclusive NewsChannel 5 investigation has discovered some state agencies may be paying more to rent cars than they should.But the company...
View ArticleEnterprise Deal Raises Questions About Outsourcing Effort
(Story originally created Jul 20, 2013)NASHVILLE, Tenn. - NewsChannel 5 has uncovered serious questions about how parts of Tennessee's state government are being outsourced to private business.That...
View ArticleVehicle Contract Outsourced To Company With Connections
(Story originally created May 15, 2013)NASHVILLE, Tenn. - Are you getting your money's worth from a multi-million dollar contract for maintenance on state vehicles?Two years ago, the Haslam...
View ArticleHaslam Administration Tries To Stop Outsourcing Leaks
Haslam administration officials have clamped down on what the public can learn about possible efforts to outsource more of state government.As they tried to put forward a "simple and positive message"...
View ArticleHaslam Pushes Back Against Privatization Critics
Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam is pushing back against critics who accuse him of putting Tennessee government up for sale.Still, the governor refused to take the idea of outsourcing state college and...
View ArticleHow Much Has Tennessee Privatization Really Saved?
The first stage of a Haslam administration effort to outsource the management of state buildings to a big corporation isn't saving near as much as taxpayers were promised, NewsChannel 5 has learned.As...
View ArticleInternal Data Fails To Justify State's Outsourcing Plan
New documents obtained by NewsChannel 5 raise a critical question: is the Haslam administration trying to fix something that's not broken?Administration officials recently acknowledged that they are...
View ArticleConfidential Timetable Puts Privatization On Fast Track
Was the outsourcing of state facilities on a faster track than the Haslam administration has been willing to admit?That's the question raised by an internal document uncovered by NewsChannel 5...
View ArticleState Museum Faces Questions About Politics, Art
NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- The taxpayer-funded Tennessee State Museum has denied that politics played role in a series of controversial decisions.But some past board members have questioned moves by the...
View ArticleDemocrats Blast Latest Haslam Privatization Plan
NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- Big corporations should not be making big profits at the expense of Tennessee taxpayers.That was the message from Tennessee Democrats, as they sounded the alarm Tuesday over a plan...
View ArticleHaslam Considers Outsourcing More State Buildings
NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- Could tens of millions of your tax dollars soon be going to another big corporation?The Haslam administration is now considering a controversial new plan to outsource the management...
View ArticleHaslam Administration Pays $100K For Contract Claim
NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- NewsChannel 5 Investigates has uncovered a secret, $100,000 settlement with your money.The state paid the money to a company that claimed it lost business after the Haslam...
View ArticleState Contractor Pockets $1.3 Million For Two Leases
(Story originally created Sept 11, 2014)NASHVILLE, Tenn. - The state of Tennessee's real estate consultant will pocket $1.3 million for helping to negotiate just two leases for state government.The...
View ArticleState Suggests Plan To Save Cordell Hull Building
(Story originally created Aug 21, 2014)NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- The Haslam administration now has second thoughts about destroying a historic building on the grounds of the state Capitol.It formally...
View ArticleStudy Offers New Hope For Cordell Hull Building
(Story originally created Aug 18, 2014)NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- There's new hope for a historic state office building on the grounds of the state Capitol that the Haslam administration had wanted to...
View ArticleLamar Alexander Dismisses Campaign Finance Complaint
NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- U.S. Sen. Lamar Alexander's re-election campaign faces a possible investigation by the Federal Election Commission over issues first raised by NewsChannel 5 Investigates. An...
View ArticleFBI Raids Company With High-Powered Connections
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. -- A company at the center of a controversy involving the governor and a high powered lobbyist now finds itself in the spotlight again. Agents with the FBI and IRS raided offices of HR...
View ArticleNewsChannel 5 Receives Prestigious Peabody Award
(Story originally created Apr 25, 2014)NASHVILLE, Tenn. - NewsChannel 5 and the NewsChannel 5 Investigates team have been awarded one of broadcasting's highest honors, the coveted George Foster Peabody...
View Article'Questions Of Influence' Special Receives Headliner Award
(Story originally created Mar 31, 2014)NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- NewsChannel 5's "Questions of Influence" documentary has been honored with a National Headliner Award.That documentary, the culmination of a...
View ArticleReport Pegs Cost Of Saving Cordell Hull At $64M - Or Less
(Story originally created Mar 11, 2014)NASHVILLE, Tenn. - Should the historic Cordell Hull state office building be saved -- and how much would it cost?Wednesday, the Haslam administration released the...
View ArticleEmails Reveal Strategy To Pass Proton Therapy Bill
NASHVILLE, Tenn. - A controversial bill requiring insurance companies to cover a specific type of cancer treatment moved forward Wednesday in the Tennessee legislature.The bill would require some...
View ArticleWell-Connected Investors Take Insurance Fight To Lawmakers
A controversial bill in the state legislature would force insurance companies to cover a specific type of cancer treatment.Insurance companies claim proton therapy is unproven and much more expensive...
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