Democratic Presidential Candidates Make Commitments to Cancer

Researchers at Vanderbilt Ingram Cancer Center watched a live webcast from Iowa (today/yesterday) of Democratic presidential candidates speaking about cancer. Dennis Kucinich, Bill Richardson, John Edwards and Hillary Clinton made commitments to varying degrees to renew a focus on curing the disease. As Senator Hillary Clinton vowed to fund cancer research, heads at Vanderbilt nodded […]

The 150th anniversary of the Civil War won’t roll around until 2011. But communities that were in the thick of the fighting are looking now to cash in on a projected boom in tourism. No site in the country has gone quite to the extreme of Franklin, where preservationists are partnering with the city to piece back together a forgotten battlefield. Now the city’s moving forward with building a battlefield park.

Metro Police officers began a citywide sweep for fugitives yesterday in what’s being called ‘Operation Falcon.’ It follows a program earlier this month called ‘Fugitive Safe Surrender’ that offered fugitives leniency for turning themselves in. Metro’s commander of special operations Tony Carter will be cooperating with federal agents for the next ten days looking for […]

Nashville’s Mayoral candidates Bob Clement and Karl Dean met in their second televised debate on Saturday at Vanderbilt University. Dean, Nashville’s former legal director, criticized Clement’s voting record on tax hikes as a U.S. Congressman, but the fireworks reached a peak when Dean responded to Clement’s repeated request to pledge not to raise property taxes […]

This month, Franklin’s board of mayor and alderman approved the design for a 12-million dollar park on part of the Franklin Battlefield. The Civil War battle was fought on November 30th, 1864, and resulted in more than 9-thousand casualties. The battlefield, however, was long forgotten. Most of it has been developed. Franklin Mayor Tom Miller […]

This week Nashville played host to a Republican fundraiser for likely presidential contender Fred Thompson. Next week, it’s Democratic candidate John Edwards. Elizabeth Edwards will be in town Tuesday for a 15-dollar-a-person ‘Small Change for Big Change’ fundraiser on West End. John Edwards was in Nashville this spring to rollout his rural recovery plan. Even […]

An outlandish, irreverent take on country music and the people who hope to make it to stardom is the longest running original play in the history of the Bongo Java After Hours Theater.

The Governor and state highway officials pledged today to reduce the number of deaths on Tennessee’s roads by 10% by the end of next year. That represents 127 lives. The pledge is part of the Strategic Highway Safety Plan, which all states are required to have. The plan calls for improving intersections and cracking down […]

(Today/Late yesterday) the Metro teacher’s union endorsed mayoral candidate Karl Dean after supporting David Briley in the general election. The 20-member leadership council of the Metro Nashville Education Association or MNEA met with both Dean and candidate Bob Clement over the weekend. The decision basically says Clement is stuck in the past and doesn’t have […]

The city of Franklin is making examples out of those who don’t follow the water restrictions in place because of the ongoing drought. Five homeowners were shutoff yesterday and several more were today for breaking restrictions on watering lawns and washing cars. Mayor Tom Miller says some people don’t understand the seriousness of the water […]