TTU Gets One Million Dollars to Fund New Building

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, […]

Metro Police officials say a year-old program to reduce the number of runaways is working. In Nashville, statistics show that once a kid runs away, there’s 33-percent chance they’ll do it again. Now, instead of just closing the case after a runaway returns home, someone from a team of four counselors and two police officers […]

The squabble between Belmont University and residents of the Edgehill area continues to fester. The proposal to give the University access to a city park comes up for a vote on the second of three readings tomorrow night. Belmont has proposed repairing existing buildings and adding a track, soccer and softball fields and a baseball […]

The US Comptroller General wants Americans to take notice of the nation’s financial situation. David Walker is coming to Nashville Monday on what he’s calling a Fiscal Wake Up Tour. It’s a series of town-hall style meetings discussing the federal deficit and other economic trends. Each year, the comptroller’s office audits the federal government. The […]

A state law in 2005 put most cold medicines behind the counter. Now some law enforcement officers say there may be a need for all cold medicines to be taken off the shelves. Liquids and gel caps were exempted in the Meth Free Tennessee Act passed by the legislature. They remained on the shelves because […]

The Tennessee Preservation Trust released a list today of the top ten endangered historic sites in the state. The trust’s executive director Dan Brown says the list of locations, nominated by the public, should draw attention to the sites and encourage the public to preserve them. He says that if they are lost, people could […]