Franklin Alderman Continue Wrangling with Water

The city of Franklin is set to make big decisions about what water source to rely on – the Harpeth River, which can go dry in the summer, or the Cumberland. The state has given Franklin permission to pull twice the amount of water from the Harpeth, about 4-million gallons a day. But state conservation […]

A four-truck fleet operated by Metro Public Works is focused on keeping traffic moving despite automobile accidents – the number one reason for congestion. The Roadway Incident Response unit helped nearly six-thousand motorists in 2007. That’s up from 45-hundred in 2006. The white trucks with blue ‘Public Works’ markings are outfitted with programmable, flashing signs. […]

Starting today, overdue fines at Metro libraries can be forgiven with cans or boxes of food. Nashville Public Library is waiving one dollar in library fines for every can or package of food donated to Second Harvest Food Bank. Library spokeswoman Deana Larson says the fine forgiveness program, which started last year, helped feed Nashville’s […]

A senior economic adviser to the presidential campaign of Hillary Clinton talked with reporters today about the Senator’s plan to address a growing number of foreclosures in Tennessee. According to realty-trac, Tennessee has the 11th highest rate of foreclosures in the country. Clinton’s adviser Laura Tyson says there are more than 11-thousand loans in some […]

Today the last of some 200 patients who were faced with losing federal funding for their stays at McKendree Village will move out. The well-respected, private nursing home – Nashville’s largest – was the highest profile on a long list of facilities that received Health Department suspensions this year. The exodus from McKendree caps a record year for state regulators. WPLN’s Blake Farmer reports.

Middle Tennessee weather for 2007 can be described as nothing short of a rollercoaster. A new record was set for the coldest temperature late in the Spring. On Easter Sunday, April 8th, we hit 23 degrees. For only the fifth time since 1870, the average temperature in April was colder than March. But meteorologists will […]

A recent study has found that the number of Tennessee manufacturing facilities and jobs has dropped, even as their output goes up. According to a report from the University of Tennessee, the state’s factories are doing more with less, thanks to advances in efficiency and an increased reliance on highly skilled workers . The amount […]

When refugees immigrate to Tennessee, most of the time they settle in Davidson County. This year, nearly half of the 230 refugees who’ve immigrated to Tennessee live in Metro Nashville. The city is already well-known as home to one of the largest Kurdish populations in the country, but city officials estimate that as many as […]

The federal government’s annual accounting statement is in. It says the nation is spending 2 trillion dollars more each year than it makes in taxes. According to the Financial Report of the United States, that brings the nation’s current so-called “financial exposure” to a whopping 53 trillion dollars. That’s despite a doubling of tax revenues […]

The Metro Planning Department is taking a hard look at traffic congestion and suggesting the solution falls on the shoulders of residential developers. City planners want to calm streets and highways at rush hour by reducing the number of cars on the road, not increasing the number of lanes. Transportation planner Scott Adams says the […]