Archives for March 2006

Developers presented their case for filling an abandoned quarry with construction debris at a packed public meeting last night in Bellevue.

Todayhealth experts told the legislature’s Safety Net Study Committee that Tennessee is the only state not using the State Children’s Health Insurance Program or S-CHIP.

With shouts of ‘Si, se puede,’ or ‘Yes, we can,’ in english, thousands of people gathered in War Memorial Plaza last night to protest proposed immigration reforms being debated on the federal level.

Bolivar Representative Johnny Shaw filed a resolution in the state legislature yesterday urging his federal counterparts to re-authorize the Ryan White Act.

Large sales of timberland in the Southeast have the potential to alter the region’s landscape.

A mental health pilot project took a first step forward yesterday.  The project is the idea of Davidson County General Sessions Judge Dan Eisenstein, who also oversees Nashville’s mental health court.

Governor Phil Bredesen says ‘Cover Tennessee’ will fail without the participation of the state’s small businesses.

(Today/yesterday) Clarksville State Senator Rosalind Kurita officially filed her papers to run in the Democratic primary to fill the Senate seat Bill Frist plans to leave.

Bredesen has acknowledged that Tennesseans have some of the highest rates of obesity in the country and he said last night that children are at increasing risk of developing ‘type 2’ diabetes because of inactivity and being overweight.