U.S. Attorney General Speaks at D.A.R.E. Training Conference

The United States Attorney General Alberto Gonzales says the two main threats to young Americans today are methamphetamines and gangs. Gonzales was the keynote speaker today at the Drug Abuse Resistance Education training conference at the Opryland Hotel. In his speech, Gonzales said the nation’s law enforcement is taking a “two-fold” approach to dealing with […]

The $263 million dollar capital budget passed the Metro Council last night. That means school improvements and upgrades for roads, libraries, parks and technology. The bond measure needed to pay for Mayor Bill Purcell’s capital improvement budget caused some concerns among council members who weren’t in favor of passing a number of projects that will […]

Belmont University’s plan to build a sports complex at Rose Park advanced Tuesday night. The Metro Council approved the lease agreement on the second of three readings, though the proposal isn’t in the clear yet. Belmont wants to build track, soccer and softball fields and a baseball stadium that will be used by some of […]

The six major candidates running for Nashville mayor committed to creating a $5 million dollar Affordable Housing fund at a forum held last night at the Downtown Public Library. The money could build more affordable housing, rehab existing housing stock or provide assistance to those struggling to pay rent. Candidate Karl Dean said the fund […]

Rutherford County citizens angry over radioactive waste dumping at a nearby landfill got a chance to air their concerns last night. The state’s Solid Waste Advisory Board held a public hearing in Murfreesboro about the practice of burying some waste from nuclear sites in Middle Point Landfill. Low-level radioactive waste has been dumped at that […]

Tennessee Technological University got a little more than one million dollars this week for a new campus building from the federal department of agriculture and Caney Fork Electric Coop. The money will help fund the university’s new “STEM Center”- a science, technology, engineering and mathematics center. It will have programs for students from pre-school through […]

TennCare, the state’s Medicaid program received a second extension on its operating agreement with the federal government last week. The two sides have been unable to compromise over an accounting rule, which could cost the state 400-million dollars over three years. The federal government wants local governments to stop using Medicaid dollars to pay hospitals […]

The Metro Council will vote on the bonds to pay for the 263-million dollar capital budget tonight, which funds major infrastructure and technology improvements around the city. Metro Schools has about 65-million dollars in capital requests, one of the largest for the 2008 projects list. Other than technology upgrades, School Board Finance Chair David Fox […]

A new deal promises to transform beleaguered 100 Oaks Mall. Vanderbilt University Medical Center has signed a lease for just over half of the facility. The mall’s more successful stores, which open directly out to the parking lot, will remain open. Vanderbilt will take over what has been mostly empty interior retail space on the […]

The country’s top federal accountant told a Nashville audience today that the national debt is out of control and that Washington politicians are not calculating the deficit’s amount correctly. U-S Comptroller David Walker says the future costs of social security, Medicare and Medicaid have not been included in the government’s tally of the national deficit, […]