Newcomers Win At-Large Seats

In the race for Metro council’s at-large seats, voters proved the pundits wrong. Six of the eight candidates in the runoff had served on council before-three are currently finishing up terms as district council members. Their name recognition was expected to carry the race. But in the end, both of the newcomers won seats. Almost […]

After a tight race in the general election and a contentious run-off, Karl Dean will be Nashville’s next mayor. He beat out his opponent former Congressman Bob Clement by thousands of votes instead of the several hundred that separated the two in the general election. The former public defender and Metro Law director started with […]

Early voting for Metro’s runoff election set records, but it’s not yet clear if election day turnout will be as strong. Last week, election commissioner Ray Barrett projected a doubling of the more than 43-thousand ballots cast during early voting. As of 2:00 this afternoon, just 8-thousand 6-hundred voters had turned out at the polls. […]

It looks as though Fisk University and the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum in Santa Fe will actually make it to trial next week after years of litigation. A Davidson County judge has rejected a settlement over the school’s famed art collection. The agreement would have allowed the school to sell one of O’Keeffe’s paintings to the […]

AT&T’s new Tennessee president hopes his experience as head of the telecom giant’s South Carolina operations will help grease controversial legislation through the General Assembly. Gregg Morton was named last week to replace Marty Dickens as head of Tennessee operations. Morton says one of his priorities will be to get AT&T a statewide franchise agreement […]

Bob Clement and Karl Dean are out shaking as many hands as possible before tomorrow’s run-off election to see who’ll be the next mayor of Nashville. Clement spent the lunch-hour at the downtown arcade. Walking out the door of a sandwich shop, he says it’s nice that people recognize him. CLEMENT: “That’s one thing. People […]

The Nashville NAACP wants the next mayor to act immediately to fix the disproportionately low number of Metro contracts going to minority-owned businesses. The issue of minority contracts has been raised throughout the campaign. Both former Congressman Bob Clement and former Metro Law director Karl Dean have committed to passing meaningful legislation once in office. […]

Research groups are mobilizing to inform the public about the possible benefits of stem cell research that could be used to treat a range of diseases from Parkinson’s to diabetes. Stem cells are not given a specific function by the body, and scientists hope those cells can become “replacement parts” to treat diseases. At an […]

Nashville Democratic Congressman Jim Cooper will be among the politicians watching and listening to General David Petraeus today as he testifies on the progress of the President’s troop surge in Iraq. Cooper says General Petraeus has been the subject of most of the attention surrounding the report, but Cooper says the military seems to be […]

With less than two weeks to go until the end of his term as Mayor of Nashville, Bill Purcell made stops over the weekend highlighting milestones in the city’s parks plan. While touring the new visitor’s center at Fort Negley, which opens in October, Purcell says Nashville has invested about $179 million into his 10-year […]