Archives for November 2005

A joint storm water plan between the Tennessee Department of Transportation and the Department of Environment and Conservation has been delayed for almost another year.

The new chairman of the legislature’s TennCare Oversight Committee says the group will continue to look into what data was or was not given to the task force charged with creating a health safety net.

Today Nashville Mayor Bill Purcell voiced his approval for an addition to the city’s skyline.

The Fraternal Order of Police lost its fight to stop Thursday’s re-certification election, where Metro Police officers will decide whether they want the FOP or the Teamsters Union to represent them.

Even before setting up its by-laws and meeting schedules yesterday, Tennessee’s Heritage Conservation Trust Fund board of directors discussed a plan of action for the sale of Bowater’s Tennessee landholdings.

The Teamsters Union lost the race to become the Metro Police officer’s bargaining representative by a close margin last September, and the Teamsters didn’t take the loss well.

A judge ruled today against the Fraternal Order of Police in its suit against the Metro Police Department’s new policy of putting undercover police in uniform for patrol duty.

At the last health care fair in Nashville nearly three months ago, there were more legislators than TennCare dis-enrollees, but turnout at last night’s information fair was better.

Smyrna Airport will soon get more than 2-million dollars to renovate its runway.