Big Picture Calls on Chamber to Help Students Find Internships

Sixty 9th graders from an experimental high school in Nashville are calling on business owners – from chefs to auto mechanics – looking for internships. Metro’s Big Picture High School opened this fall. Part of the curriculum includes spending two days a week on the job in a field students choose. School officials worry business […]

The TennCare bureau will soon be reopening one of the eligibility categories it closed in 2005, when the state removed 170-thousand individuals from the program due to concerns about rapidly escalating costs. The new category is for adults whose net income is reduced to 241-dollars per month because of high medical bills they can’t pay. […]

The Americana Music Association opened its annual conference last night, at a time when the genre is bucking for more attention – but faces some hurdles. Created as a bastion for alternative country, the genre willingly welcomes R&B, folk, bluegrass, rock-a-billy, blues and soul. But Americana ’s strength of diversity creates a challenge for airplay. WPLN’s Debbie Tannacore reports on the Americana Music Association’s push to get radio stations to flip to the “big tent” approach of Americana.

Predators owner Craig Leipold has called off a deadline of midnight tonight for a group of local investors to complete negotiations to purchase the team. Predators spokesman Gerry (as in ‘Jerry’) Helper says Leipold realizes city officials and the investor group led by David Freeman have been working non-stop to finalize a new lease agreement […]

Governor Phil Bredsen’s return from an eight-day trade mission to China hasn’t been all ‘welcome back’s’ and ‘how did it go?’ While Bredesen was gone, Chattanooga Congressman Zach Wamp issued a harsh warning that the governor should use caution when doing business with a country known for its human rights violations. Bredesen said (today/yesterday) he’s […]

Pilots of the 118th Airlift Wing – housed at Nashville’s Berry Field – will soon teach airmen from allied nations how to fly C-130 cargo planes. The new training mission was announced (today/yesterday) and received applause from guardsmen like Master Sgt. Margaret Gilbert. “Isn’t it an awesome opportunity. We get to make allies instead of […]

Metro Police Chief Ronal Serpas says neighborhoods can help prevent juvenile crime with more vigilance. At a meeting about youth crime at Antioch High School last night, Serpas says violent crime among juveniles is up, but he also cautioned that its repeat offenders who are the problem. “There’s a small number of kids, and hopefully […]

A study committee charged with making sure the state’s death penalty is applied fairly has raised concerns that district attorneys now have too much discretion in the process. State law sets out 15 factors to consider in a first-degree murder case. One of which, says committee chairman Doug Jackson, is whether the community where the […]

Education experts say a proposed redrawing of zoning boundaries for Metro Schools could have a negative impact on desegregation efforts over the past 10 years. That was the general consensus of a panel discussion last night organized by Vanderbilt University to tackle the potential re-segregation in Metro Schools. School board members are meeting this week […]

A state lawmaker called attention to possible problems with two new TennCare managed care companies during a meeting of a legislative committee yesterday. The TennCare bureau selected two managed care companies, Americhoice and Amerigroup, for the Middle Tennessee region in a competitive bidding process last year, knocking Blue Cross Blue Shield of Tennessee out of […]