New Chamber of Commerce CEO

After a three-month search, the Nashville Chamber of Commerce has chosen a new president and CEO. Ralph Schultz will take the helm of the chamber on November first. The previous president, Mike Neal, resigned in July. Schultz’s entire career has been spent in non-profit management. He is currently president of Nashville’s Adventure Science Center. During […]

Former Titan Eddie George will be trying to convince Tennesseans to exercise and eat healthier as part of a new diabetes awareness campaign. The pro-athlete is the new public face of Get-Fit-Tennessee, an initiative kicked-off by Governor Phil Bredesen today/yesterday. George says he’ll be talking to schools and community groups about preventing obesity, a condition […]

The president of Nashville’s teachers’ union says she’s surprised by a vote to reject a pilot program for merit-based bonuses. The Metro Nashville Education Association had a hand in creating the plan to reward the faculty and staff of the city’s two lowest-performing elementary schools, Alex Green and Inglewood. MNEA President Jayme Merritt says the […]

Governor Phil Bredesen’s new health insurance program, CoverTN, took a big step forward late last week. The state released the request for proposals late Friday. Health insurance companies will now have an opportunity to bid on the contracts to provide health insurance to small businesses with 25 or fewer employees. Bredesen has touted the program […]

Ethics in government was the first subject of last night’s gubernatorial debate in Memphis—the second of three. Governor Phil Bredesen says he’s done a good job of tackling ethical problems in state government. “There are going to be things that go wrong. And to me the test is, what the public is looking for is […]

A Vanderbilt Psychologist is being honored for his work regarding one of the most universally unpleasant sounds. Two decades ago, Randolph Blake worked with colleagues at Northwestern University set out to discover just why just about everyone is bothered by the sound of fingernails on a chalkboard. They began with the hypothesis that the sound’s […]

Fisk University is celebrating the 135th anniversary of the Jubilee Singers. Nine students originally formed the touring group on this day in 1871 to raise money for the cash-strapped institution.

The Ryman Auditorium is known world-wide as the Mother Church of Country Music. But many fans and scholars have long known the former home of the Grand Ole Opry enjoys a more specific status as the birthplace of bluegrass. Last week, music greats gathered to unveil a historical marker that recognizes that accomplishment and its far reaching consequences. s.

Dallas Cowboy center Andre Gurode informed the Metro Police Department today that he will not press criminal charges against Tennessee Titan Albert Haynesworth.

An international humanitarian organization is tapping the Nashville healthcare market for doctors and nurses interested in practicing medicine in war-torn nations.