Vanderbilt Welcomes Eighth Chancellor

Today, Nicholas Zeppos spoke to the Vanderbilt University community for the first time as its chancellor.

The Greater Nashville Association of Realtors reports 26 percent fewer home sales closed in February than in the same month in 2007.

The former Saturn plant in Spring Hill is preparing to build a new GM vehicle – the Chevy Traverse. GM officials gave Chevy dealers around the region a tour of the retooled plant today.

A Vanderbilt University professor released a study on Sunday that said Metro employees need to earn at least $10.35 an hour to make ends meet.

Lawyers around the country have already begun studying the impact of Fisk University’s dispute with the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum over an art collection donated to the school in 1949. The American Bar Association held a conference on donor agreements last month and highlighted the Fisk case among a handful of others.

More than a month after deadly tornadoes ripped through the state, farmers in the hardest hit areas of Macon County are still trying to put their businesses back together.

Clarksville State Senator Rosalind Kurita has pushed a constitutional amendment that would allow voters to choose the Lieutenant Governor, Secretary of State, the Comptroller, and the Treasurer. All four officers are now elected by the General Assembly. WPLN’s State Capitol Correspondent Joe White explains this year, Kurita has settled on getting just two officers added to the ballot – and so far, her strategy is working.

In December, Tennessee Senator Lamar Alexander won a new position in the Senate’s Republican leadership, and since then, his life has gotten a little more complicated. Alexander is relishing the new job, though, and has been working to set Republican priorities on issues, most recently related to the war in Iraq and the credit crisis. WPLN’s Christine Buttorff was in Washington D.C. last week and talked with the Senator about his new role and the recent debates over Iraq, a stimulus package and the housing crisis.

Today, a gathering of Nashville teenagers told Mayor Karl Dean they need more from their teachers and guidance counselors.

The Tennessee Attorney General says he’s pleased at yesterday’s court ruling which keeps a prized art collection at Fisk University.