McPhee Case Sent Back to Lower Court

The Tennessee Supreme Court is sending a sexual harassment case against the state back to a lower court. The case centers on accusations that Middle Tennessee State University President Sidney McPhee inappropriately flirted with and touched an employee. The Supreme Court agreed with the earlier judgement that the employee did not suffer from discrimination or […]

The largest communications company in the world is having trouble airing ads on Tennessee’s local cable channels. A-T-and-T’s Tennessee president Gregg Morton says the company has been trying to air informative ads about its desire to ink a statewide franchise agreement to provide cable TV services. That would take a change in current state law […]

Washington environmentalists say Tennessee Senator Lamar Alexander will have a pivotal vote when key climate change legislation hits a Senate committee this week. Independent Senator Joe Lieberman and Republican John Warner are co-sponsors of the Climate Security Act of 2007. The bill aims to cut greenhouse gas emissions every year, starting in 2012 at about […]

Governor Phil Bredesen says he wants to give the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation access a state-wide prescription drug database, in an effort to curb fraud. The T-B-I requested the access during its budget hearing with the governor yesterday. In a later hearing for the finance department, the governor asked the finance commissioner, who started the […]

Mayor Karl Dean told Metro Department heads that they should prepare to cut their budgets anywhere from 5 to 15 percent. At the Downtown Library today Dean kicked off the budget process for the fiscal year beginning in July. He says revenues are projected to be lower, but he’s not sure yet which departments will […]

Despite the state Attorney General’s attempt to move ahead with executions, Governor Phil Bredesen said last week that all executions have been effectively stopped. “From my perspective, everything is on hold, until the Supreme Court rules, and I think it would be inappropriate for us to charge ahead and figure out how to execute everyone […]

Nashville Mayor Karl Dean met with neighborhood groups from around the city at the Downtown Library over the weekend to hear about problems in their areas of town. Many issues were related to prosecuting codes violations. Jerry Waering lives in the Priest Lake area. He’s had trouble in the past getting the Codes Department to […]

Financial information on hundreds of local non-profits – including Nashville Public Radio – is now available on the web. Over the weekend the Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee opened access to financial information on nearly 900 non-profits listed on its ‘giving matters’ website. The information on the nearly three-year-old site had been restricted to government […]

In light of the recent suicide of philanthropist and fraudulent investor Bob McLean, the Tennessee Board of Regents took up the issue of naming rights on its campuses at a meeting Friday. The Middle Tennessee State University School of Music took on the McLean name soon after his pledge of some 1.5-million dollars to purchase […]

For many Middle Tennessee families, this holiday season will be celebrated without a family member because tens of thousands of soldiers are deployed in Iraq. In Nashville, one government agency did what many others do – send gift boxes to troops, but this year it’s more personal. WPLN’s Jacqueline Fellows reports. The conference room at […]