Archives for November 2008

Nashville-based Plumgood Food will pull the plug on its grocery delivery service at the end of next week.

The number of miles driven on Tennessee highways has fallen more than three-percent for the year. That’s the longest period of decline since the Department of Transportation began counting passing cars 30 years ago.

Number fifty-four is the only senior on the basketball roster at Roane State Community College. Senior citizen, that is. Seventy-three year-old Ken Mink took some time off between his freshman and sophomore terms — fifty-two years, to be exact. He’s garnered international attention in his attempt to put a few more points on the board before he retires for good. In the process, he’s inspiring granddads and grandkids everywhere to believe in the impossible. Nashville Public Radio’s Kim Green reports…

Higher education officials today got strict orders from Governor Phil Bredesen to move quickly and come up with a way to cut at least 10-percent from their budgets.

President Bush received a rousing welcome at Fort Campbell today. He came to thank soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division who’ve recently returned from Iraq.

Just four months after announcing their site selection, Volkswagen is already laying concrete for the foundations of its Chattanooga assembly plant.

President Bush visits Fort Campbell this morning. He plans to eat lunch with 101st Airborne soldiers who’ve recently returned from Iraq and Afghanistan.

Governor Phil Bredesen said today Gary Odom’s narrow win to maintain party leader status for House Democrats indicates a deep divide within the caucus.