Nashville Police Recruits Follow National Trend

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 […]

Congressman Harold Ford Junior criticized the Bush administration today for not changing its policy on the war in Iraq. White House spokesman Tony Snow said today that President George Bush is no longer using the term, “stay the course” to talk about U-S policy in Iraq. Ford, who’s running on the democratic ticket for the […]

Governor Phil Bredesen received the first Oreck vacuum cleaner made in Tennessee (today/yesterday) during the opening of the corporation’s newest plant in Cookeville. Referencing the nearly 2.8-million American manufacturing jobs lost since 2001, CEO Tom Oreck says the company has made a pledge to keep its production within the U-S. “I think the U.S. consumer […]

Tennessee is among four states in the country where healthcare premiums grew eight times faster than earnings over the last six years. The more liberal leaning Families USA, a Washington D.C. based group, conducted a nationwide analysis of healthcare costs. Its study concluded that premiums are outpacing the rise in wages in Tennessee, South Carolina, […]

Governor Phil Bredesen says he’d like to shift more TennCare money to pay for at-home health care services for seniors. Bredesen made his comments yesterday in response to a Tennessean article describing the selling of homes to pay for nursing home care. The state and federal government spent 1-billion dollars on long-term care services last […]

Women in Tennessee make about 72 cents for every dollar men make, according to a recent study published by the Tennessee Economic Council on Women. The group held its annual meeting today in Nashville. House Majority Leader Kim McMillan says the issue of getting women paid equally for similar work is likely to come back […]

A former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations came out in support of Harold Ford Jr. today. Richard Holbrooke, who served in President Bill Clinton’s cabinet and is best known for brokering the 1995 Dayton Peace Accords in Bosnia, held a mid morning teleconference from New York. He says Ford’s proposal to divide Iraq into […]

A Vanderbilt study has found a new link between a gene variation and the development of autism. Researchers Daniel Campbell and Pat Levitt found a mutation of a particular gene where people with two copies of it were more than 2-times as likely to develop autism. Levitt says the gene is one of 5 to […]

Meharry Medical College is opening a new center this week devoted to research on women’s health, specifically that of minority women. Health disparity research has usually focused on access to care, since minorities are more likely to be uninsured or have trouble getting to a doctor. But director Valerie Montgomery Rice says the Center for […]