‘Ghost Ballet’ Unveiled

Today Nashville dedicated “GHOST BALLET FOR THE EAST BANK MACHINEWORKS,” the first project completed under Nashville’s public art program. Made of sprawling steel arcs, reaching 100 feet into the air and weighing 12 tons, GHOST BALLET serves as a symbolic union between the once-industrialized east side and the arts-influenced west side. The work was funded […]

Across the river from lower Broadway, next to the Shelby Street Bridge and in front of LP Field is a new kind of Nashville star – a giant red super nova. A public sculpture that looks like parts of a whirling spiral galaxy come to earth. Fabricated of industrial steel like the barges that used to launch from this part of the riverbank, Its the creation of Alice Aycock, known worldwide for her industrial sculptures. WPLN’s Susan Knowles reports.

Today Franklin-based Community Health Systems becomes the largest publicly-traded hospital operator in the country. It acquired Triad Hospitals in a 6.8-billion dollar deal. Dallas-based Triad had been shopping for buyers since early this year, and it’s purchase by Community Health Systems makes for a publicly-traded powerhouse. The two companies run nearly 150 hospitals and surgery […]

Nashville-based building products company Louisiana-Pacific announced today a 23-million dollar loss for the 2nd quarter, which brings total losses for the year to 61-million. Company officials blame weak home construction starts and strengthening of the Canadian dollar which adds cost to materials purchased from that country. In light of the recent losses, LP CEO Rick […]

Today the Annie E. Casey Foundation released its yearly study, called the Kids Count report, detaling every state’s progress in providing for youth. The report indicates Tennessee has made significant improvements in curbing its infant mortality and high school dropout rates. Despite improvements, however, the report shows Tennessee is still ranked 43rd overall in the […]

State lawmakers want to streamline the jury selection process and make serving more appealing. A committee of the Tennessee Judicial Council started examining the jury selection process today, at the behest of Nashville Representative Rob Briley. He sponsored a bill to make changes to the state’s rules this year, but later said it would be […]

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The Mayor’s office gets frequent requests from local businesses that want to join the Mayor’s Honor Roll. This is a list that recognizes local employers who give their workers time off to take their children to the first day of school. In a press conference today Purcell, along with representatives from five businesses on the […]

U.S. Secretary of Transportation Mary Peters met with Governor Bredesen last week to discuss solutions to growing traffic demands in Tennessee, all while federal road funding moves in reverse. In June, Congress took back more than 18-million dollars in road funding for the state, putting a virtual halt to new projects. Peters says states will […]

A state board is looking for answers from nuclear waste processors, landfill operators, and the state agency that monitors them. The Solid Waste Advisory Board is charged with studying the state’s program for dumping select waste from nuclear sites in several landfills, using one near Murfreesboro as the test case. The program began in the […]