Walk In The Park

This weekend, Nashville Mayor Bill Purcell kicks off a series of walks through Metro Parks. As part of the Celebrate Nashville festivities, Purcell will lead hour-long hikes on the first Saturday of each month through June. The effort is intended to bring attention to the large system of parks, trails and greenways in Davidson County. […]

Next week’s election will determine whether local governments in Tennessee can lower the tax burden for some senior citizens. A proposed constitutional amendment would allow cities and counties to freeze the property taxes of some homeowners over the age of sixty-five living on a limited income. Brian McGuire is the state legislative director of the […]

A former Ft. Campbell soldier will stand trial in federal court on charges of murder, conspiracy, rape, and obstruction of justice. While he was a member of the 101st Airborne serving in Iraq this spring, twenty-one year old Steven Green allegedly raped, killed and burned the body of a fourteen-year old Iraqi girl, and killed […]

U.S. Senate-hopeful Harold Ford Junior tried to distance himself from Senator John Kerry at a Clarksville rally yesterday.

One of the proposed changes to Metro’s governing document on the November 7th ballot, would require the Mayor to deliver the Davidson County budget to Metro Council members two months earlier. The budget is usually handed over to Council on the 25th of May. Councilman Buck Dozier says that leaves council members only a month […]

Democrat U-S Senate candidate Harold Ford Junior, criticized the newest negative ad released from his opponent, Republican Bob Corker yesterday. The ad criticizes Ford for a 1-thousand dollar donation to the legal defense fund of Dwain Kyles, a former campaign manager for Ford’s father. Kyles was indicted on involuntary manslaughter charges after a fire and […]

In addition to the races for governor and U-S Senate, for Davidson County voters there’s a slew of amendments to Metro’s governing document on the November 7th ballot. One of those would require the Mayor to give the annual State of Metro address in a public forum. The Nashville Area Chamber of Commerce has hosted […]

The U-S Senate campaigns of Bob Corker and Harold Ford Jr., and their respective national parties, have spent nearly 40-million dollars, making this the most expensive race in Tennessee history.

Activists on both sides of the gay marriage debate are campaigning heavily to get out the vote on a proposed amendment to Tennessee’s constitution. But no matter what the result of next week’s election, Tennessee law will stay the same for the foreseeable future. In 1996 the General Assembly clarified Tennessee’s marriage laws to state […]

Express Scripts has won the contract to be the pharmacy benefit manager for CoverRx, a prescription drug plan that’s under the Cover Tennessee umbrella. It’s the first contract to be awarded for any of the programs in Cover Tennessee which also includes the health insurance for employees of small businesses and the high-risk pool. State […]