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 […]

A new report calls eight Nashville High Schools “dropout factories” because their graduation rates are 60-percent or less. Johns Hopkins researchers released its dropout rate study on behalf of the Associated Press today. In it, Glencliff, Hillwood, Hunters Lane, Maplewood, McGavock, Pearl Cohn, Stratford and Whites Creek high schools are all cited for poor graduation […]

For the first time in 40 years, a majority of public school students in Tennessee-and the rest of the South-are poor. That’s the finding of a new study by the Southern Education Foundation, an organization that has examined trends in the region’s schools for 140 years. Study coordinator Steve Suitts says 35 percent of students […]

Peers of country music legend, Porter Wagoner, began receiving word of his death at the Country Music Hall of Fame’s induction ceremony on Sunday night for the Hall’s three newest members, Vince Gill, Mel Tillis, and Ralph Emery. Porter Wagoner died at a Nashville Hospice Sunday at 8:25 p.m. Wagoner was an artist who could […]

In the past year, enrollment in Tennessee’s private, for-profit colleges has increased 23%. The for-profit schools are usually referred to as career colleges that target non-traditional students. They promote the opportunity to earn less expensive specialized degrees quicker. Shamiah McMillan, a 25-year-old single mom, attends night classes at the Kaplan Career Institute, which just opened […]

A Davidson County Chancellor has asked the Tennessee Baptist Convention to show what evidence it has that shows it’s given Belmont University 58-million dollars since 1951. The TBC is suing the school to get that money back after Belmont Trustees voted in 2005 to add non-Baptist board members. When asked, the TBC hadn’t previously handed […]

The Metro Planning Commission approved a proposal by California-based Foursquare Properties to redevelop Bellevue Center. No one spoke against the proposal before the Planning Commission, which unanimously approved it without debate. The plan has been well received by the mall’s neighbors and Bellevue residents. The one legal hurdle left is a meeting with Metro’s Industrial […]

Community Enhancement Grants Controversy: This year, state legislators set aside $20 million dollars for a program that supporters called “Community Enhancement Grants”, but critics termed “pork barrel spending”. So far, only $2 million has been awarded, but some legislators are reportedly upset because they’re afraid some of their pet projects won’t get funded. Our state capitol correspondent, Joe White came in to the studio to discuss the controversy with WPLN’s Morning Edition Host, Jacqueline Fellows.

A year-and-a-half after opening its museum in downtown Nashville, the Musicians Hall of Fame has named its first class of inductees. The geographically diverse group includes members of the Nashville A-Team, the Wrecking Crew from Los Angeles, the Memphis Boys and the Tennessee Two. The groups of musicians played on hits by the Beach Boys, […]