An education nonprofit in Nashville has launched a statewide campaign aimed at convincing high-achieving students to consider the teaching profession.
Nonprofit Launches Campaign To Recruit The Best And Brightest Into Teaching Profession
Pace Slows But Nashville Home Sale Prices Hit New High In April
Listen Nashville area home sales slowed last month, but prices hit a new record high. According to relators, the median price for a single family home in the Nashville area is $275,000, up by $25,000 since last year
Even Before The Official Start Of Tennessee Reconnect, Community College Will Be Free For Adults
Listen The governor’s proposal to make community college free for most adults in Tennessee is in the final stages of discussion. It’s widely expected to pass the state legislature this week.
Too Many Students, Not Enough Money: Williamson County’s Top-Tier Schools Hit A Tipping Point
Listen In Franklin, Page Middle and High School are so overcrowded that parents like Karen Hynes say it’s become untenable—kids eating lunch in hallways, overflowing toilets, too many portable classrooms.
Hepatitis C Rates Are High In Tennessee, As Are The Costs Of ‘Game-Changing’ Cure
Listen Tennessee has one of the highest rates in the nation of hepatitis C, an infectious disease that predominantly affects the liver and is killing far more Americans than any other. A new interactive map shows that 2.5% of all Tennesseans had or currently have HCV, as it’s known, which is twice the national average.
Capitol Hill Conversation: What Budget Sniping Says About The Political Mood In Tennessee
Listen Tennessee lawmakers are trying to finish up their business for the year, but the close vote over hiking the gas tax a few weeks ago seems to be getting in the way. Democrats and some rank-and-file Republicans felt steamrolled and forced to approve the governor’s infrastructure spending plan. So last week they took pot […]
Rep. Jim Cooper Wants Senate To Start Over With Health Care Bill
Nashville’s Democratic Congressman berated the health care bill that passed in the U.S. House Thursday. Jim Cooper called the bill “a box of old Republican bandaids” at a press conference at the Nashville Library Friday morning. He accused his conservative colleagues of fast-tracking a plan that’s destructive to those with pre-existing conditions.
Tennessee Governor Signs Bill Urging ‘Natural Meaning’ Of Marital Legal Terms
Tennessee’s governor has signed a bill that is seen as a way to chip away at gay marriage rights in the state. The legislation orders courts to use the “natural and ordinary” definitions of legal terms like husband, wife, father and mother. Governor Bill Haslam says he didn’t see a problem with the bill because, he […]
Garrison Keillor: Prairie Home Companion Wouldn’t Exist Without The Ryman
Listen Nashville’s Ryman Auditorium is the backdrop for a story Garrison Keillor tells pretty frequently. In 1974, the New Yorker magazine dispatched him to document the Grand Ole Opry. The show was moving out of the decaying “Mother Church of Country Music” and into new digs near Opryland. The experience changed his life. Within months, he […]
Ending A Republican Insurrection, Tennessee House Approves $37B State Budget
Update 5/5/17 at 3pm: Members of the Tennessee House of Representatives have set aside their differences and approved the state’s $37 billion budget. That comes just a day after bickering over the budget exposed a wide gulf between House Republican leaders and their rank-and-file colleagues. They joined with Democrats to cause more than $300 million […]
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