Name Change Rumors Become Official for Dickerson Pike

If you aren’t a regular on East Nashville’s Dickerson Road, you may not know that there’s talk of changing the name to Skyline Boulevard.

The State Senate approved a bill last night to let the Highway Patrol to enforce immigration law. It would allow the state to be part of a federal program called 287-G being pioneered now in the Davidson County sheriff’s office. Senator Mark Norris, a Memphis Republican, sponsored the bill and says it underwrites a process […]

The proposed Westin Hotel development that will dramatically change the skyline of Lower Broadway is up for its third and final reading before the Metro Council tonight. But a last minute push from two Council members could derail the proposal and its companion bills. Council ladies Ginger Hausser and Lynne Williams have proposed an amendment […]

The hottest bill in the Tennessee General Assembly, the so-called “AT&T” bill, will be up for public hearing on the Internet when the House Commerce Committee meets this morning. Legislators have been hesitant to support the bill. It allows AT&T – or any other communications company – to provide cable service in Tennessee without negotiating […]

Tennessee Republicans Lamar Alexander and Bob Corker have written a letter to Senate colleagues protesting a proposed change in the way the federal government funds Medicaid programs. The federal government wants to save about 12-billion dollars in Medicaid spending by capping reimbursement payments, establishing cost limits for public health providers, and redefining what is considered […]

After a 30-day waiting period mandated by the state attorney general, Nashville’s Fisk University is rethinking a proposal to sell a prized painting by Georgia O’Keeffe. The financially-strapped institution had planned to sell O’Keeffe’s Radiator Building – Night, New York for 7-million dollars to the O’Keeffe museum in Santa Fe. In turn, the historically black […]

Members of the Senate Environment Committee may take a trip to Upper East Tennessee to judge for themselves if one of the state’s rivers is being polluted by coal production in Virginia. Representatives from the World Wildlife Federation told senators last week that mussels, the river’s freshwater shellfish, are dying. The Clinch drains out of […]

  A deadline set last month for Fisk University to find an alternative to selling-off two prized paintings from the school’s collection passed at 5 p.m yesterday. And still, there’s no confirmed buyer who’s agreed to purchase the works and keep them at the school as the donor wished. One of the paintings is Georgia […]

A rally to protest the ongoing war in Iraq drew a small, yet energetic group to Music Row in Nashville on Saturday. Nashville was one of many cities around the country marking the fifth year of the conflict in Iraq with demonstrations. About a-hundred people gathered at the Musica Statue to hear speakers and musicians. […]

The Bredesen Administration is working full speed to sign up small businesses for its new health insurance program, Cover Tennessee. The hope is that it can address the needs of the uninsured “working poor” in the state. Governor Phil Bredesen told small business leaders last week the program is “version one-point-oh,” and like a computer […]