Bredesen Launches CoverTN

Bredesen Launches CoverTN 3/09/07 Blake Farmer Governor Phil Bredesen launched his program for the working uninsured yesterday. “I have the very first CoverTN card ever given to anyone, so Angie, I would like to…(applause)” Angie Moore, who owns a Franklin fine foods shop, was the first enrollee in Cover Tennessee. The plan calls for the […]

Nissan’s corporate headquarters is cutting its call center based in Cool Springs and outsourcing the operation to a third-party. The company confirmed (today/yesterday) that 255 jobs will be lost, though most are temporary employees. 73 are full-time Nissan workers and 17 of those made the move from California when the automaker relocated its headquarters here […]

The Metro Council unanimously approved on the second of three readings, the historic overlay for Lower Broadway in Downtown Nashville. The overlay is part of a package of bills related to the proposed Westin Hotel tower that will rise just off of Lower Broadway. Last night was the public hearing for the overlay bill, and […]

Governor Phil Bredesen says he intends to change the Basic Education Program formula in time to affect the new money he wants to add in to next year’s budget. The BEP is the formula by which the state funds local school systems. The governor used a new adjective to describe how hard it is to […]

Governor Phil Bredesen says he’s disappointed in the state Senate’s passage of a bill which is supposed to make drivers licenses an English-only exam. He says Tennessee’s welcoming attitude is diminished by the bill. “One of the state Senators who was supporting it, I guess it was Senator Ketron down here, said ‘Well, This is […]

For more than a decade the Tennessee General Assembly has fought over medical malpractice, which boils down to how much money an injured patient should get when a doctor makes a mistake. The question comes up again today when the Senate Judiciary Committee takes up the latest round of proposals to change the medical liability system. WPLN’s Joe White reports.

The State Senate approved a bill last night that aims to make driver’s license tests in English only. Murfreesboro Republican Bill Ketron amended his bill to also allow Spanish, Korean and Japanese tests, which the Department of Safety already offers. Ketron won’t call it a compromise. “It’s speaking on behalf of what the people of […]

Preparations are underway to open the Tennessee Governor’s Academy, a two-year residential program for some of the state’s top math and science high school students. This fall, 12 girls and 12 boys will move into cottages on the campus of the state’s school for the deaf in Knoxville. At the academy, they’ll meet all of […]

A Williamson County judge has frozen the assets of a mail order company based in Lebanon as part of an identity theft case. The alleged scheme is that National Fulfillment Inc. successfully charged nearly 20-dollars to at least 30-thousand credit cards for a product that didn’t exist. The fraudulent charges totaling half-a-million dollars showed up […]

While more and more businesses are taking sales exclusively to the web, used car dealers have been slow to make their deals solely online, where buyers would have to purchase a car sight-unseen. One Middle Tennessee start-up, though, is trying to make its name in online used car sales. It’s called auto2auto.com. WPLN’s Blake Farmer reports.