Natural gas will soon cost more for customers in some Middle Tennessee counties. Texas-based Atmos Energy is the gas utility in Rutherford, Bedford, Maury and Williamson Counties. Atmos has been eager to raise its rates since last year, when the Tennessee Regulatory Authority decided the company was overcharging its Middle Tennessee customers. At that time, […]

Governor Phil Bredesen told business leaders (today/yesterday) that the state’s program to train teachers who have real world experience works and it should be expanded. For three years the state’s been piloting a program called ‘Teach Tennessee.’ So far it’s produced 140 teachers who left careers in engineering, medicine and the military, to name a […]

In his first nine months as a U.S. Senator, Repubilcan Bob Corker has opposed the Bush administration on energy, immigration, and most recently, healthcare for children. Corker was in Shelbyville Tuesday, and said that he’s proud of his voting record even if it doesn’t sit well with his Republican supporters. Expanding the State Children’s Health […]

“Slightly more and then lock it. A little bit more, ok, then lock it…” Lighting designer Mathle Leyes calls out directions to an assistant who’s adjusting lights on Nashville’s newest piece of public art, the Ghost Ballet for the East Bank Machineworks. Installed this summer by artist Alice Aycock, the red, semi-circle roller coaster tracks […]

Today, computer maker Dell announced layoffs at its Nashville facility. Spokesman Ken Bissell says the company is giving severance packages to 250 technical support operators-the people who answer the phone when customers call in for help with their computers. “We will provide opportunities for some of these employees to return to work, we have positions […]

The Nashville Area Chamber of Commerce announced big gains for the year in jobs and income (today/yesterday) in its annual report. The number of jobs in the 10-county region grew by more than 19-thousand. Annual incomes rose more than 18-hundred dollars. Both well surpassed goals set by the Chamber. 43 new companies moved into the […]

Federal authorities renewed the state’s Medicaid program (today/yesterday) but with 270-million dollars less than the state requested for TennCare. The Centers for Medicaid Services – or CMS – wanted to cut reimbursements to hospitals that care for Medicaid patients and the uninsured. The original offer would have cost the state 385-million dollars over the three-year […]

The founder of Colorado-based Focus on the Family, James Dobson, has voiced his opposition to Fred Thompson as a candidate. But one evangelical leader says the former Tennessee Senator should be conservative coalition’s pick. Richard Land, the president of the Southern Baptist Convention’s Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission, says once evangelical voters get to know […]

People were turned away at the door of downtown Nashville’s War Memorial Auditorium on Saturday, where over 15-hundred gathered to hear GOP Presidential candidate Ron Paul. The Texas Congressman is a libertarian, but is running as in the Republican primary. Paul is the only GOP candidate opposed to the war in Iraq, and the subject […]