“Core Services” In Schools Funded With Non-recurring Money

Several times during a budget hearing Tuesday, Tennessee’s Education Commissioner came back to the point that one-time funds are paying for ongoing needs. The programs in question provide what he considers “core services.”

Brentwood-based LifePoint Hospitals is getting the fanfare of a corporate relocation for moving three miles down the road. Tuesday Mayor Karl Dean announced at a press conference the hospital chain will consolidate its three Williamson County offices into one building just inside the Nashville city limits.

This week we’re bringing you tales of Thanksgiving bloopers, mishaps, and downright disasters. Today, the story of a glorious feast that had guests running to the rescue.

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.

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.

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.

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:

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.

Officials with GM are ready to talk about the future of their plant  in Spring Hill.

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?”