New EPA Rules Will Challenge Development

Stricter air-quality rules from the EPA will challenge growth in Middle Tennessee communities.

Fisk University President Hazel O’Leary told Congress today that the institution’s student body is changing.

Governor Phil Bredesen today tried to defuse any potential partisanship over his proposal to beef up assisted living options for people who would otherwise go into nursing homes.

Education advocacy groups in Nashville cast a wide net in search of booster club members for schools today. They’re recruiting Davidson County residents who will meet with Metro Council members and state legislators to argue for full funding of the school system next year.

After keeping a low profile since his release from a Nicaraguan prison, Eric Volz emerged in Nashville today, making an appearance at Belmont University.

A group convened by Nashville Mayor Karl Dean today decided the city needs a Truancy Center-a place separate from Juvenile Court where police can take kids who’ve been caught skipping school or loitering.

The Tennessee state Senate today approved a resolution to create two new offices – an elected lieutenant governor and secretary of state.

Two members of Tennessee’s Congressional Delegation are throwing their support behind a one-year moratorium on earmark spending.

A proposal to ban open containers of alcohol in vehicles on Tennessee highways stayed alive today. The bill was deferred a week in a House subcommittee, but given that a handful of amendments were approved by the subcommittee, it seems likely to pass next week.

Today the Civil War Preservation Trust named a Spring Hill battlefield to its list of the top-ten endangered sites in the county.