Nashville Fashion Week: Part Party, Part Business

New York and Paris are the world’s undisputed fashion capitols, but a growing number of cities like Omaha, Kansas City, Portland and now, Nashville have their own “Fashion Week” events.

Last year Metro Schools got all the money it requested, and Thursday in his final budget hearing, Nashville Mayor Karl Dean said schools remain a priority.

In a major win for Governor Bill Haslam, the state Senate gave final approval Thursday to his bill for teacher tenure changes.

Six members of the 101st Airborne Division at Fort Campbell were killed this week during an operation in Afghanistan involving as many as a thousand soldiers.

Several measures aiming to fight illegal immigration made their way out of a House subcommittee yesterday. Several business lobbies aren’t happy with one, and the measures’ sponsor says the other two need to trim their projected costs.

Tennessee lawmakers heard more testimony Wednesday on the governor’s tort reform bill that would cap financial awards in some personal injury lawsuits. Governor Bill Haslam has amended his bill to raise those caps, but lawmakers put off a decision on the changes.

Governor Bill Haslam’s expansion of charter schools was approved by the state Senate Education Committee Wednesday. The bill removes the limits on how many charter schools can open and which students can attend them.

The speaker of the Tennessee House of Representatives invoked a rarely used privilege in a subcommittee Wednesday to assure the passage of an anti-collective bargaining bill. House Speaker Beth Harwell was the seventh vote to get the measure past a six-six tie in the House Finance Subcommittee.

Sebastian Jones is a normal 17-year-old, until you put him on stage at a poetry slam.

Opponents haven’t been able to slow down a bill in the state legislature that would allow public school teachers to discuss theories at odds with the theory of evolution.