HCA Shareholders Approve Buyout

HCA shareholders voted overwhelmingly to take the hospital chain private today in an 11-minute meeting at the company’s Nashville headquarters. About 75 people, almost all HCA employees, gathered to hear results from the voting that has been ongoing for the last month. Nearly 73 percent of the votes – one for each of the company’s […]

A Tullahoma High School student is a regional finalist for the Seimens Competition in Math, Science and Technology. Larissa Wenren will compete this weekend at Georgia Tech University for scholarship money from the Seimens Foundation. She earned the honor for completing a paper written by Leonhard Euler, an 18th century Swiss mathematician, renowned for his […]

A DUI Task Force, assembled earlier this year by the governor’s office, has proposed changes to current DUI laws. Topping the list is a request to repeal what has come to be known as the “shame law,” which was approved by the General Assembly last year.

The Metro Planning Commission signed-off on the proposed Westin Hotel development last night with a vote of 8 to 2. The voting majority, however, doesn’t indicate the hesitation commissioners showed in approving the project.

The Tennessee Highway Patrol has filed papers with the Department of Homeland Security to gain new enforcement power of federal immigration laws. Governor Phil Bredesen described the formal request today to a gathering of law enforcement officials. The announcement follows the Governor’s request in September for jurisdictions around the state to begin seeking further immigration […]

A new study released by the Census Bureau today shows widespread racial disparities in Tennessee. The American Communities Survey analyzed things like household income, education, and homeownership levels in three-million U.S. households. Nationwide, statistics show minorities still lagging in college degrees and income, but in Tennessee the disparity gap between whites, blacks and Hispanics is […]

A proposed Westin Hotel development has the full-throated support of small businesses that fall in its future shadow. But the preservation community says the 200-foot high-rise could open the floodgates to more undesirable development in the Lower Broadway historic district.

Metro Councilman at-large David Briley will announce his candidacy in the race to be Nashville’s next mayor this morning on the steps of the courthouse.

When Governor Phil Bredesen signed the Meth Free Tennessee Act of 2005 into law, it was designed to combat the drug’s widening epidemic of addiction and the spread of volatile and toxic meth labs. In this report, WPLN’s Todd Jarrell weighs the affect that the new law has had on Tennessee’s methamphetamine crisis.

A charter amendment on Tuesday’s ballot that gave Nashvillians the final approval in any property tax increases passed by more than a 3-to-1 margin. But the aftermath is raising questions from Metro Council members about the likelihood that voters would actually vote to tax themselves.