Schools Dispute, Defend Ranking on Rising College Cost List

According to new federal rankings, Tennessee State and Lipscomb University have some of the fastest rising price tags of U.S. colleges.

With a referendum to determine the fate of the state fairgrounds set for this August, the issue is becoming central to other elections on the ballot.

Officials at Vanderbilt today announced a major donation helping pay for an expansion to the Monroe Carrell Jr. Children’s Hospital. It’s one of several building projects currently planned or underway at medical facilities in Nashville.

Tennessee’s Bill Haslam is among a group of fifteen governors from around the country asking the EPA and federal transportation officials not to push fuel economy too hard. Last week White House officials floated the idea of requiring all new vehicles to get better than 55 miles per gallon by 2025.

Vanderbilt University has announced an agreement with Barnes & Noble to operate its university bookstore. The chain runs some 630 campus bookstores around the country, including at Yale and Harvard.

The Army is restricting the use of certain prescription drugs, and Fort Campbell will adopt the new policy starting next week.

A group that spent the past decade studying national parks says that Tennessee’s sites are in the same “fair” to “poor” condition as parks across the country.

Senator Bob Corker has been a loud voice in the debate over whether the President needed Congressional permission to go into Libya. Tennessee’s other senator has started speaking in opposition to the White House.

The American Civil Liberties Union filed a federal lawsuit against the city of Brentwood over sales of the homeless newspaper, The Contributor. Earlier this year, the city fined eight of the Contributor’s vendors for selling the paper on city sidewalks.

A Seattle-based company is relocating its headquarters to Cool Springs.