Med Mart Signs Local Lease

A Nashville-based health care company called SpecialtyCare has signed on to have a showroom in a proposed medical trade center, which is planned for the city’s old convention center.

A new health clinic is opening at Nashville’s downtown homeless shelter. It will alleviate pressure on an existing clinic and may cut down on the number of people who end up in the Emergency Room.

U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan says Tennessee is well-positioned to receive a waiver to sidestep parts of the federal No Child Left Behind education law. Duncan was speaking in Nashville alongside Governor Bill Haslam, and says such a waiver should have only a few strings attached.

Self-styled dealmaker Bob Corker will not get the chance to be part the super committee charged with reducing federal spending.

The Musicians Hall of Fame is officially setting up shop in Nashville’s Municipal Auditorium. The museum has been homeless since being forced out of it’s previous location, which was condemned by the city to make way for the new convention center.

Nashville Congressman Jim Cooper says the House of Representatives can’t wait until next month to reconvene. He and three colleagues have sent letters to Speaker John Boehner and Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi asking them to call Congress back in session.

An increasing number of Tennessee’s children are growing up in households where putting food on the table is a challenge. The latest Kids Count report shows it’s a problem that nearly doubled in less than a decade.

The Tennessee Valley Authority will soon decide whether to move forward on restarting work at an old nuclear plant in Alabama, southwest of Chattanooga. But a watchdog group says it wouldn’t be worth the trouble to salvage TVA’s Bellefonte plant, which has sat unfinished for decades.

Turmoil in the financial markets has temporarily put the brakes on a bond refinancing by Metro Government. The city is trying to get a lower interest rate on roughly $100 million in bonds, originally used to pay for construction projects at parks and schools.

Tennessee has become the U.S. Department of Education’s case in point when it comes to why No Child Left Behind needs to change.