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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Buoyed by a 9.9 percent gain in home sales during the first quarter, Chattanooga home prices appear to have bottomed out from their recession lows.
Unemployment fell last month in Tennessee and Georgia to the lowest level in more than three years, although the decline in Tennessee was as much from fewer people looking for work in April as it was to an improving job market.
Chattanooga's biggest private equity fund announced Wednesday it has raised $222 million for its latest venture, twice as much as its previous fund launched six years ago and $22 million more than its initial goal.
A New York private equity group is adding to its growing automotive business by buying the U.S. subsidiary of ThyssenKrupp AG, including the 250-employee foundry in Etowah, Tenn.
ThyssenKrupp AG, an Essen, Germany-based materials and technology group that reopened its automotive foundry in Etowah, Tenn., earlier this year, has sold its U.S. subsidiary to a New York-based private equity group.
The mild winter helped cut power bills this year for most Chattanoogans, but the Tennessee Valley Authority will take back some of those savings next month with another increase it its monthly fuel cost adjustment.
Chattanooga Realtors last week urged Hamilton County Schools Superintendent Rick Smith to better define current and future school zones to help prospective home buyers make purchasing decisions.
As a construction supervisor for 17 years, Randy Cady traveled the country hiring workers to build restaurants and stores before the construction slump ended his job a year and a half ago.
