Holly Petraeus Listens to Financial Problems of Fort Campbell Soldiers

Holly Petraeus, wife of the four star general and next CIA director, has taken on a pretty big job herself. She’s overseeing an office focused on service members in the new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. Petraeus has been visiting military installations and was at Fort Campbell Wednesday.

The MacArthur Foundation wants to know how the brain is involved in criminal behavior, and it’s giving Vanderbilt University $4.8 million to lead a study into just that.

The winningest coach in NCAA basketball history has released some details about her health problems and vowed to continue leading the Lady Vols this season. Pat Summitt has been diagnosed with early-onset dementia.

Tuesday night Nashville’s Board of Education passed on the school district’s first choice for a balanced calendar but did approve a start date of August 1st next year. That will give students a week-long break from class in the fall and an extended spring break, while still getting out for summer by May 24th.

The Tennessee Valley Authority is inspecting its dams closest to the epicenter of yesterday’s earthquake on the eastern seaboard. Engineers are performing visual checks of TVA’s coal ash storage sites as well.

A fallen Fort Campbell soldier will be posthumously honored with the Silver Star this week, at the headquarters of the 101st Airborne’s 4th Brigade Combat Team.

A slight majority of teachers and parents of students surveyed by Metro Nashville Public Schools say they’d like to switch to a balanced academic calendar. That would extend the school year and build in longer breaks in fall and spring, while trimming a few weeks from summer vacation.

Country music icons Alan Jackson and Garth Brooks are being honored for their songwriting abilities, not just star power.

Vanderbilt librarians are sorting through memorabilia from Senator Lamar Alexander’s early political life. The university announced today it will house the former governor’s papers prior to being elected to the U.S. Senate.

There are more than 250,000 motor and sail boats in the state required to post registration numbers – that string of numbers on the bow starting with the letters “TN.” They act like a license plate for boats, and the state agency responsible for enforcing boating safety is now experimenting with a mail campaign to get more of those boats on the water and more money to the state.