Ads Part of Final Debate

At the third and final debate Saturday night, the candidates for U-S Senate addressed their more than week-long spat over negative campaign ads paid for by national committees. Less than two weeks ago, the Republican National Committee aired an ad painting Democratic Congressman Harold Ford Junior as not right for Tennessee. At the end, a […]

Tennessee State University inaugurated its 7th president today, Doctor Melvin Johnson. Johnson assumed the helm of the historically black university over a year ago, but says he wanted to wait to have the official ceremony until he had his leadership team in place. Johnson says he wants to improve the university’s status as a research […]

State officials gave Middle Tennessee Medical Center in Murfreesboro the go ahead on Wednesday to expand and relocate its hospital. The deal has been in the works for seven years. Hospital CEO Gordon Ferguson says the current facility is now in a hard to find location and it’s not able to keep up with patient […]

This weekend’s opening of The Lion King is the first major test of a new partnership between the Tennessee Performing Arts Center and several local food and drink vendors. Before and during shows, the venue’s concession stand now offers foods with a local flavor in addition to the prepackaged snacks that have always been available. […]

Congressman Jim Cooper says he supports efforts to relax some of the corporate governance requirements created by the Sarbanes-Oxley law. The law was created in 2002, following corporate scandals at Enron, WorldCom and Adelphia. It strictly regulates the accounting and auditing practices at publicly traded companies. Earlier this week, US Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson said […]

Congressman Harold Ford Junior continued to denounce ads from the Republican National Committee today. The new ad charges the democratic U-S Senate candidate with voting for gay marriage and for wanting to give the abortion pill to minors. Ford, speaking in Knoxville, says he wants the ad pulled. “I have never supported gay marriage, never […]

Locomotive motifs decorate the newly reopened Demonbreun Street Viaduct, referencing the trains running below the bridge in the Gulch and Nashville’s railroad history. Local business owners like Choi Suk-Won says they are glad the bridge is reopening. “It’s really exciting, much, much better than, because bridge, when it reopen, then there are freeways to here […]

The redevelopment plan for Nashville’s river got a little easier to digest last night, as designers presented a modified riverfront park idea, with a much smaller price tag. In August, the Boston architectural firm hired to design the master plan, presented the idea of making an island out of the Titans stadium. Gavin McMillan, a […]

Nashville’s Police Department is having a hard time finding new recruits. Metro Police Chief Ronal Serpas says the problem isn’t as bad here as it is in other large cities. He says Nashville is down about 7-percent, or 70 positions. Chief Serpas says one challenge is the relatively low unemployment rate in the region. “We […]

Two Nashville area hospitals, St. Thomas and the Vanderbilt University Medical Center are among the safest and highest quality in the country according to a new ranking from the Leapfrog group. The relatively new group is a consortium of major employers that want to encourage hospitals to implement a variety of safety and efficiency measures […]