Oreck Adds Tennessee Retail Stores

Vacuum maker Oreck will open a retail store in Franklin today. WPLN’s Blake Farmer reports. Company founder and familiar-face David Oreck will be at the grand opening. He says its part of the company’s push to have a larger Tennessee presence after moving its manufacturing headquarters to Cookeville from the Gulf Coast last year. Oreck […]

The state Senate flared up in a partisan outburst today when a Democratic senator tried to amend a bill to limit the shifting of money between political action committees, or PACs. Nashville Senator Joe Haynes offered the provision to a routine bill that schedules how candidates can correct their campaign finance documents. The amendment was […]

Today, Governor Phil Bredesen kicked off the first meeting of his advisory committee on the temporary transfer of chief executive powers. He did so by reminding the panel members of his tick-induced illness last summer. The governor says while that illness did not “incapacitate” him, it did mean he wasn’t fully functional for a couple […]

There’s a 250-million dollar marina and luxury waterfront project going in near the intersection of Briley Parkway and Lebanon Road in Donelson and now we know when. Developers of what will be called the Cumberland Yacht Harbor set a groundbreaking for the project of November 29th. The marina near Mills Creek – about three miles […]

Nissan Motor Company announced a significant drop in its annual profits today – as expected by industry analysts – but for the first time in seven years.  The Japanese automaker also extended key restructuring goals for another year. Profits are down 11-percent for Nissan’s global operations, and down 54-percent in the most recent quarter. The […]

A river side scrap yard that many Nashvillians have called an eyesore and an impediment to progress may make way for development. The Marks family has an option to buy land now leased the PSC Metal Recycling Center on the East Bank of the Cumberland. The facility is one of the last vestiges of a […]

Governor Phil Bredesen says he’s talking with legislators about changes in funding for K-12 education. But the governor says those changes won’t include cutting back on the amount of money he believes is needed and how he wants to raise it. The governor stood firmly behind his proposed 40-cent a pack cigarette tax increase, which […]

Nashville leaders dedicated a “crime victims’ suite” in the new A.A. Birch court house in downtown today. Susan Tucker, assistant director of the Davidson County Victim Witness Program, says the rooms are important to protect victims who come to court to testify. The big room in the suite has a television, chairs and a kitchen […]

Louisiana-Pacific Corporation lost 37 million dollars in the first quarter of 2007. The Nashville-based building products supplier did make a profit on siding and engineered wood, but sales of oriented strand board plummeted. OSB is usually the company’s biggest seller, thanks to demand from builders of single-family homes. CEO Rick Frost says LP is feeling […]

David Keith is a sometimes-farmer from Sweetwater and often an actor in Hollywood movies. But today he talked to Tennessee legislators as a board member of the National Association to Protect Children. As part of National Crime Victims Rights Week, Keith was in Nashville to urge lawmakers to fund a major task force to fight […]