Both Candidates Face Likeability Challenge in Debate

Middle Tennesseans are gearing up to watch the back and forth between John McCain and Barack Obama at presidential debate watching parties across the city.

Contractors are working 7-day weeks with as many as 180 men to complete the new downtown Nashville transit station in time for the grand opening. Buses will begin rolling through the multi-level hub one month from today.

Local banks are saving comments about the Wall Street bailout until details are complete, but they don’t appear to have the same urgency found in Washington.

Of the three presidential debates between Barack Obama and John McCain, Belmont University is hosting the only town-hall format. But it’s a made for TV town-hall, which means it will be much different than the freewheeling format most might have in mind. WPLN’s Christine Buttorff reports.

State Senator Rosalind Kurita has filed a federal lawsuit challenging not only the Democratic party’s handling of her primary, but the very constitutionality of Tennessee’s election law.

Bringing a presidential debate to Nashville started as a half-joke between Belmont President Bob Fisher and Curb Records founder Mike Curb.

A change to the Presidential debate calendar could launch Belmont University to the front of the schedule and create more interest in the town hall event.

One hundred World War II veterans from Williamson County boarded a chartered plane this morning headed for Washington D.C. The group of gray-haired men and women, some in wheel chairs, are on a mission to see the new World War II Memorial.

Tomorrow is the fifth anniversary of a nursing home fire in Nashville that killed 16 people.

Despite bipartisan skepticism of the proposed Wall Street bailout, Tennessee Senator Lamar Alexander wants quick approval of the plan. He likens the proposal to the financial equivalent to last year’s troop surge, with Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson in a position similar to General David Petraeus.