Davidson County Property Tax Freeze Signed into Law

Mayor Bill Purcell signed into law a property tax freeze for Davidson County residents over 65 (today/yesterday). It allows homeowners who make less than 34-thousand dollars a year to freeze their current property tax payment even if their property value or the Metro tax rate increases. Tennessee voters approved the freeze for seniors in 2006. […]

WPLN recorded candidates’ stump speeches last month at Christ Church Cathedral on Broadway. Throughout this week, we’ll be airing excerpts of those addresses, starting today with David Briley. He comes from a political family – his grandfather Beverly Briley was the first mayor for the consolidated Metro Nashville government. His brother Rob is a state representative. David Birley is an attorney, who has served as an at-large councilman since 1999.

Governor Phil Bredesen said last week that he hasn’t personally gotten involved in the negotiations over Tennessee’s expired Medicaid program, but he says he will. The state and the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services have been fighting over the application of an accounting rule that could cost the state 400-million dollars over three […]

Poor pasture growth, caused by the late-spring freeze and summer drought, have forced local livestock producers to search farther than usual for hay. Tom Womack is the spokesperson for the Tennessee Department of Agriculture. He says neighboring states that usually supply hay to Tennessee like Kentucky and Alabama are experiencing drought as well, so farmers […]

A rally to save the Predators Hockey team drove over 75-hundred people downtown last night. The rally was designed to urge supporters, like Jerry Ellis, to buy more season tickets. Ellis is already a season ticket holder, but says he waited in line buy extra tickets for his son-in-law. “Never watched hockey ‘til five years […]

President Bush attempted to divert attention away from the Iraq War in Nashville today, where he held a town hall meeting on the federal budget. But the conversation inevitably turned to Iraq. After 20 minutes of speaking about the federal budget, cutting taxes, and healthcare priorities, the President took random questions from the audience for […]

Most of the candidates for Metro offices, including Mayor, Vice-Mayor, At-large and district Council members, were out campaigning at Vanderbilt University’s ‘Meet the Candidates’ picnic today. The University is one of the largest employers in Davidson County at about 22-thousand people and candidates shook hands with the about 2-thousand mostly employees who turned out for […]

A local homeless advocacy group is helping the homeless this election season. In 2006 the Nashville Homeless Power Project began a program to help homeless people register to vote, and then take them to the polls. This year, the campaign has already helped register over 500 homeless and low-income Nashville residents. Team member Kay Rowe […]

Governor Phil Bredesen said today that he’s revamping the pay scale for state commissioners. A study released today by a private firm says Tennessee’s top commissioners should be earning more to stay competitive. The top three commissioners, Dave Goetz of Finance and Administration, Matt Kisber of Economic and Community Development and Lana Seivers of Education […]

This August, fugitives in the Nashville-Davidson County area will be able to turn themselves in, and possibly have a reduced penalty for it. Nashville is the fifth city in the country to have a Fugitive-Safe Surrender program. A typical police sweep may only result in the arrest of less than a hundred people, but organizers […]