Local investors looking to buy the Nashville Predators brought the Metro Sports Authority a new study (today/yesterday). It shows that if the team left town the city would lose a million dollars more than it does now running the Sommet Center. The last profitable year for the venue was 1997. Since then, the Predator’s home […]

The Nashville Homeless Power Project renewed its call for more housing Tuesday night. The homeless advocacy group rallied in front of the courthouse before the start of the Metro Council meeting. They’re asking for 200 additional units. There are 84 homeless housing units now. Kay Rowe used to be homeless, but now volunteers for the […]

Franklin voters will soon elect a new mayor. On the ballot is the city school board chairman John Schroer, taking on the incumbent Tom Miller. Schroer, who’s a retired real estate developer, says people aren’t happy with how the growing city has handled development issues like access to water. Franklin has consistently placed summer water […]

Viewing public records in Tennessee is no easy task. That’s what a legislative subcommittee studying the issue of open records heard today. Hedy Weinberg, ACLU’s Executive Director in Tennessee, told committee members that she believes one of the major flaws with the state’s open records law is requiring people to appear in person to view […]

A 2-year old pilot program that uses Global Positioning Systems to monitor sex offenders is expanding. The Board of Probation and Parole currently monitors 330 high risk sex offenders in 8 cities, including Nashville, with a GPS ankle bracelet. Their actions are recorded 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. If they wander into […]

State lawmakers won’t be back at the capitol until January, but groups around the state are preparing their legislative agendas. The pro-life group, Tennessee Right to Life, says it will be bringing back, for the fourth time, a constitutional amendment specifically stating that abortion is not a protected right. The proposed amendment is a reaction […]

With a few exceptions all enclosed public places in Tennessee are smoke-free today. The smoking ban applies to restaurants, workplaces, sports arenas and hotels. April Anderson is a bartender at Nashville’s popular restaurant SouthStreet. She says a lot of people she works with are wondering if their bar business will slow down. “I think it’ll […]

Congressman Jim Cooper launched another salvo in his battle against the national debt last week, when he filed a bill to create a new commission to look at the country’s financial problems. The Nashville Democrat has long criticized the federal government for not accurately portraying the nation’s deficit, estimated to be about 158-billion dollars this […]

McMinnville residents like to think of their Cumberland Plateau town as the nursery capital of the world. It’s safe to say it’s the industry’s center in Tennessee where the so-called ‘green industry’ makes nearly a 4-billion dollar impact annually. It ranks third in agriculture revenue, behind cattle and poultry. But this year, business is bad. Extreme weather conditions have left many nurserymen looking to cash in on crop insurance. They’re realizing that, unlike row-crop farmers, the federal program leaves tree farms in the lurch. WPLN’s Blake Farmer reports.

Two Tennessee women told a congressional committee last week that the music industry must stop slandering women to make a profit. Congressional concern over offensive stereotypes in hip hop music is nothing new. But it’s getting a new look since Don Imus was fired for using racist and sexist slurs to describe a women’s basketball […]