A Nashville middle-schooler is in Washington, DC this week, competing as a finalist in the Discovery Channel’s Young Scientist Challenge. Shalom Rottman-Yang is an 8th grader at Meigs Magnet Middle School. He’s one of just forty 5th through 8th graders from around the nation to make it to the final round. He says the inspiration […]

JetBlue Airways announced today it is canceling service to and from Nashville. The discount airline began offering three flights to New York City just last year. The company will eliminate flights to Nashville and Columbus, Ohio beginning January 6th. Dave Barger, JetBlue’s CEO made the announcement during today’s 3rd Quarter meeting. “These markets did not […]

Attorneys representing Fisk University offered some details today on just how bad the school’s financial condition has become. Fisk attorneys says the school has mortgaged every building on campus and has no other lines of credit to draw from. They told a Davidson County judge the 140-year-old institution won’t be able to make its payroll […]

At the first meeting on proposed zoning changes for Metro Schools, many parents in the Antioch cluster said that rezoning some of their schools won’t alleviate overcrowding. The Antioch Cluster is being split so the new Cane Ridge high school will anchor a new cluster by the same name just to the west. Antioch High […]

Davidson County Chancellor Ellen Hobbs Lyle ruled this afternoon she will consider a deal between Fisk University and the Crystal Bridges Museum of Art in Bentonville, Arkansas. The museum, a project of Wal-Mart heiress Alice Walton, would pay Fisk 30-million dollars for a 50-percent stake in the university’s famed art collection. It was donated by […]

Tennessee Conservation Voters say the General Assembly looks more ‘green’ these days. The group released its annual legislative score card (today/yesterday) ranking lawmakers for their votes on 20 different bills. Only two of the bills tracked by the Conservation Voters would have had negative impacts on the environment. One passed after being watered down. The […]

Last week, Turkey’s parliament authorized military action against the Kurdish Worker’s Party, or P-K-K, a group that has been fighting for Kurdish independence. The vote specially allows Turkey’s army to cross the border into Northern Iraq to pursue the P-K-K. The move set off protests in the Kurdish area of Northern Iraq, and the 8-thousand […]

The U-S drought monitor now classifies 71-percent of the state as experiencing ‘exceptional drought,’ the most severe condition on the scale. That’s up from 61-percent just last week, with the driest conditions in middle and east Tennessee. Tennessee and Alabama have shared the title of ‘most drought-stricken’ over the past few months, but farmers here […]

The title of ‘fastest growing county in the region’ belongs to Williamson County right now, mostly because of the explosive growth in the Cool Springs area. That’s created some tension in economic development circles as some worry downtown Nashville is missing out on corporate relocations while losing existing employers who’ve moved south. Representatives of the […]

The Tennessee Farm Bureau has new figures on how bad this year’s rollercoaster weather has hurt the state’s agriculture industry. As of October 1st, farmers had lost 850-million dollars. Congressman Lincoln Davis, who sits on the House Agriculture Committee, said yesterday he’s redoubling an effort to get Tennessee farmers money they need to stay in […]