Investment markets around the world are showing signs of strain from the debt crisis in Europe. Those ripple effects potentially stretch all the way to the state of Tennessee’s pension fund. But officials don’t seem too worried.
State Pension Fund Ready to Ride the Debt Crisis Waves
GM to Add Almost 1,900 Jobs, Spend $250M at Spring Hill
GM’s plant in Spring Hill will start making cars again for the first time in two years. The factory had sat mostly idle except for some engine production. Now GM will spend about a quarter of a billion dollars on the plant and add almost two thousand jobs in two phases.
Gibson Awaits Reviews on Guitars without Rosewood and Ebony
Nashville-based Gibson Guitar has been forced to get creative in order to keep creaking out guitars after federal agents seized exotic hardwood from the company. The improvised instruments are just starting to hit the market.
No Harm, No Fowl
Listen Now: Writer and WPLN contributor Craig Havighurst, opened his front door one Thanksgiving morning, heading out to catch an early flight, and on the front porch of his East Nashville home, there stood…a live turkey:
200 New Citizens Naturalize Monthly in Mid. Tenn.
The number of new U.S. citizens naturalized in Middle Tennessee is on track to rise for a second year in a row. The count could beat last year’s total of more than 2,600.
GM Ready to Talk About Spring Hill’s Future
Officials with GM are ready to talk about the future of their plant in Spring Hill.
Walmart Snaps Up Consumers Burned by Banks
Listen Now: There’s a growing segment of consumers in Nashville and around the country asking, “who needs a bank when you’ve got Walmart?”
Aviator’s Family Donates Money to Conservation Effort
The 135-acre Cornelia Fort Airpark in East Nashville is already set to be conserved as green space. Now, friends and family members of the airfield’s history-making namesake are donating money so that the city can preserve even more land.
Agreement Likely Means Occupiers Stay Put Into 2012
Occupy Nashville protesters will likely be able to keep camping at the state legislature through the end of the year, thanks to an agreement in federal court today. That’s in sharp contrast to other cities, where this week hundreds of occupiers have been arrested and numerous encampments evicted.
Democrat Hopes to Find “Buyers Remorse” in Tennessee 4th
A Democrat in Tennessee’s 4th Congressional District announced today he’d take on Republican freshman Scott Desjarlais, who was elected to Congress last year.
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