Pay raises, college funding face cuts - Erik Schelzig, the Tennessean

Senate Speaker Ron Ramsey says worse-than-expected revenue collections could force Tennessee to cancel planned pay raises for state employees and reduce investments in higher education. The Blountville Republican said Thursday at his weekly news conference that he would prefer to find the savings among bigger ticket items rather “the little nickel-and-dime issues where you just stir up constituencies and there’s no big saving there.” http://www.tennessean.com/story/news/politics/2014/03/29/pay-raises-college-funding-face-cuts/7037709/