NHC Nursing Home fire anniversary tomorrow

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.

If you want to send your child to a different Nashville public school than the one they’re zoned for, then the process will get a little easier under a new plan Metro Schools will implement for next year.

Those who provide food, shelter and medical care to Nashville’s homeless are reconsidering their approach. A new model outlined at a community meeting today would target the city’s most vulnerable, and most costly homeless residents, and put them in permanent housing.

As part of year-long push to prosecute identity thieves, the U-S Attorney’s office in Nashville has targeted immigrant cases.

Tennessee Senator Bob Corker wants the federal government to take a more cautious approach in its response to the nation’s financial crisis.

Service providers say childcare increasingly stands between Nashville parents living in poverty and getting a good job.

Nashville’s supply of gas was lower than average even before Hurricane Ike slowed delivery, leaving the city especially vulnerable to the current shortage.

A Rutherford County couple today launched a pilot program to give laptop computers to students throughout the county.

Hospice care organizations are bracing for their first major reductions in reimbursement rates in 25 years.