Task Force Fighting Tennessee’s High Obesity Rates

A state task force fighting Tennessee’s high obesity rate is looking to the law as one way to do it.

Tennessee Senator Lamar Alexander says the pollution trading market in the cap and trade bill from Democrats will send jobs overseas. Instead, he’s proposing loan guarantees to build one hundred new nuclear plants, and now he finally has a Democratic ally for his proposal.

Doctors at Vanderbilt’s Children’s Hospital have tried to help hundreds of overweight kids with little success over the last five years. The reason is that children can’t lose weight on their own. WPLN’s Anne Marshall reports.

Volkswagen has received some 35 thousand applications for factory jobs at its plant in Chattanooga. That’s for some 1,500 spots on its assembly line there.

Governor Phil Bredesen began his annual budget hearings Monday morning with a warning.

Thirteen teachers from all over the world are wrapping up their semester spent in Metro Schools and studying at Vanderbilt’s Peabody College.

Regional law firms in Nashville are getting a boost from the financial crisis. Several report new work coming from corporate clients who’ve left big city firms.

Davidson County has a 40% childhood obesity rate, but one program is making initial strides to change that. WPLN’s Anne Marshall reports on the Veggie Project, an effort to turn the kids least likely to eat healthy, into vegetable lovers.

China is Tennessee’s third-largest trading partner, and state officials hope to strengthen that economic bond even further.

One of the country’s largest discount retail chains will begin trading on the New York Stock Exchange Friday.