BellSouth Wants to Compete in Cable Market

BellSouth is testing out a new video service in markets throughout the Southeast. But before rolling out Internet Protocol Television or ‘IPTV’ in Tennessee, the company wants new statewide franchising rights like 14 other states have, including North and South Carolina. In Tennessee, cable companies like Charter and Comcast must negotiate contracts with individual cities […]

The Metro Council passed an English-first bill on second reading last night. It would require all government communications to be in English expect for instances relating to public health or safety. Sponsor Eric Crafton linked a bi-lingual society to the fall of the Roman Empire in his opening statements on the bill. “Now any student […]

The new leader of the Tennessee Baptist Convention – elected last week – has virtually no expectation of mending a relationship with Belmont University.

The Bredesen administration filed to dismiss a long-standing TennCare consent decree yesterday. The John B. consent decree was entered into in 1998, with the aim of making sure the state was providing necessary and preventative medical care for children. The state and the Tennessee Justice Center, a non-profit law firm that filed the original suit, […]

A  bill moving through the Metro Council could help the city conserve water by allowing new no-flush urinals.

English teachers from around the country gathered in Nashville this weekend for their annual conference, this year focusing on what they perceive as problems with the No Child Left Behind Act. The National Council of Teachers of English has drafted a set of recommended changes to the NCLB law for members of Congress because it […]

The ‘Meth Free Tennessee’ act that was signed into law in 2004 has cut the number of methamphetamine labs in the state by half.

Third generation guitar and stringed instrument maker Manuel Delgado moved recently from East Los Angeles to East Nashville. The last time the Delgado guitar company uprooted this significantly was when Manuel’s grandfather and great-uncle moved from Juarez, Mexico to the U.S. in the 1940s. He’s a one-man operation, but there’s something from those patriarchs in every instrument Manuel Delgado builds, as WPLN’s Craig Havighurst reports.

State legislators are looking to increase the availability of high-speed Internet connections in Tennessee. Today, executives from the region’s largest telecom companies testified before the State Broadband Taskforce. Tennessee has fallen behind the national average, with broadband Internet access available to only 25-percent of homes and businesses. Of those who have the option for high-speed […]

You may think roller derby went extinct in the seventies along with mood rings and Leif Garrett. But today’s re-vamped roller derby has risen from the ashes – and it’s gotten a face-lift. In cities all over the country, roller derby squads are springing up, and they’re sporting a kind of self-aware, cool-kitsch aesthetic that values sport over sideshow. WPLN’s Kim Green reports on the Nashville Rollergirls.