Dave Flessner is the business editor for the Times Free Press.
A journalist for 35 years, Dave has been business editor and projects editor for the Chattanooga Times Free Press, city editor for The Chattanooga Times, business and county reporter for the Chattanooga Times, correspondent for the Lansing State Journal and Ingham County News in Michigan, staff writer for the Hastings Daily Tribune in Nebraska, and news director for WCBN-FM in Michigan.
Dave, a native of Lansing, Mich., joined the Times Free Press in 1999 after working for 19 years at The Chattanooga Times. He covers energy, business and special projects, including the Tennessee Valley Authority. Dave has previously covered police, county government, politics and education.
A 1979 graduate of the University of Michigan, Dave also studied economics at Michigan State University’s Graduate School of Business.
He has won more than a dozen journalism awards for business, breaking and investigatory reporting, including first place honors for education coverage in 2007 from the Tennessee Press Association, investigative reporting in 2006 and project reporting in 2005 from the East Tennessee Society of Professional Journalists, deadlline reporting in 2002 from the Georgia Associated Press Association, and health care reporting in 2001 from the Tennessee Hospital Association.
Contact Dave at 423-757-6340 or dflessner@timesfreepress.com.
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Consumers are paying less to heat their homes this winter, but the mild winter is putting the heat on the nation’s biggest government utility.
The biggest construction project in Southeast Tennessee will take longer and be more expensive than originally forecast. The Tennessee Valley Authority disclosed Friday that finishing the second reactor at its Watts Bar Nuclear Power Plant will take at least a year longer than the five years planned for the project.
IVC US announced today it is adding a third shift and boosting its Dalton, Ga., staff by another 30 employees.
The Tennessee Valley Authority lost $173 million in the final three months of calendar 2011 as milder winter temperatures cut electricity sales by $260 million compared with the same time a year ago.
Chattanooga motorists traveling on U.S. Highway 27 will likely have to maneuver around orange cones and construction crews for at least the next five years as workers rebuild, revamp and expand the downtown thoroughfare.
Gov. Bill Haslam said today that closing the Taft Youth Development Center in Bledsoe County is part of his overall effort to streamline state government and offer services at less cost.
Tennessee boasted its best year for business recruitment in five years in 2011 during the first year of Gov. Bill Haslam’s administration, state officials said Tuesday.
The number of Chattanoogans going broke fell for the second consecutive year in 2011 as the number of local jobs rose and property foreclosures declined.
River barge traffic on the Tennessee River is being halted this weekend as TVA draws down its rain-swollen reservoirs.
