Nashville Occupiers See Opening As Similar Efforts Struggle

Occupy Nashville will likely hold its ground for the next couple months, even as police around the country break up similar encampments. A court injunction says protesters can keep camping near the state capitol. Some Nashville occupiers see that as a chance to expand while efforts elsewhere dwindle.

The Tennessee Supreme Court has launched a website meant to help people with civil legal issues who can’t afford an attorney.

Nashville’s Fisk University will end the week in better shape than it started, according to school President Hazel O’Leary. Fisk received approval to sell a $30 million stake in its art and use the money to shore up its precarious finances.

A state task force has unanimously recommended cutting in half some Tennessee lottery scholarships. That’s meant to save millions while steering lower-scoring students toward community college instead of four-year schools.

The nonprofit long known for flying musical groups and comedians to entertain deployed troops will cut the ribbon on a support center at Fort Campbell Wednesday. The USO was drawn to the post – in part – because it’s been the front line in a battle against soldier suicides.

Nashville International Airport expects no immediate impact from the American Airlines bankruptcy.

TVA is moving ahead with plans to sell power plants as a way to generate cash and avoid its $30 billion debt ceiling. The country’s largest public utility would then lease its plants from a new owner and continue operating them.

TennCare could cut into how much it pays healthcare providers if it has to trim its budget next year. That’s as Governor Bill Haslam wrapped up a round of budget hearings where he asked each department what a 5 percent cut would look like.

The stock market has been good to the endowment that pays for Chairs of Excellence at Tennessee universities. After several years of losses, the fund has earned more than 56 million dollars in the last two years.

A public drive to unionize workers at foreign auto plants in the south remains stuck in neutral. The UAW president started the year saying he hoped to kickoff such a campaign in 2011.