Listen Beyond Nashville’s border, the regional transportation system has not kept up with demand and could fall further behind as the population grows, according to a new transit study. The issues holding back transit through the 10-county region, according to the “State of the RTA System” report, are lack of frequency of regional train and bus service, […]
Regional Transit Authority Predicts Gridlock By 2040 Without New Options For Suburbanites
Tennessee Schools Break New Online Testing Software (At The State’s Request)
Listen Schools uncovered some vulnerabilities in the Tennessee Department of Education’s new online testing software Thursday morning. It was part of the department’s experiment to see if its new program could handle high levels of traffic before it starts administering real statewide testing, called TNReady.
Opponents See Chance To Repeal Tennessee Law That Lets Police Jail Drug-Addicted Mothers
Listen Tennessee’s new law that makes it a crime for pregnant women to use illegal narcotics is coming up for debate again. Groups that tried to block the bill last year are now aiming to keep the law from being renewed.
Haslam Says Tennesseans Shouldn’t Assume The Fix Is In With Review of Prison Safety
Listen Gov. Bill Haslam is urging Tennesseans to wait until a report on prison safety is released, rather than drawing conclusions from how the review is being conducted. The Republican governor defended an audit under way from the American Correctional Association, which is inspecting three Tennessee prisons following reports of violence, staffing shortages and […]
Nashville Pedestrians Fight Construction-Related Sidewalk Closures With A Hashtag
Listen One consequence of Nashville’s construction boom: Displaced (and grumpy) pedestrians. As many as a dozen sidewalks at a time have been closed recently near downtown construction sites.
Tennessee Has A New List Of Best And Worst Counties For Children
Listen For the first time, all of Tennessee’s counties have been ranked against one another in terms of quality of life for children. That’s the new twist in the annual “Kids Count” study by the state’s Commission on Children and Youth.
KIPP Argues To State That Expanding Charters Won’t Be A Cost Burden For Nashville
KIPP Nashville made its case to the state after its application to open two more charter schools was denied by the Metro board of education in August. KIPP is rebutting claims that further expansion of charters eats into money that would be spent on traditional schools.
Fighting Terminal Cancer, John Jay Hooker Says He’ll Appeal Right-To-Die Ruling
Listen John Jay Hooker says he intends to fight a Nashville judge’s ruling that he does not have the right to die. The two-time Democratic nominee for governor and longtime political activist is rejecting Chancellor Carol McCoy’s determination that Hooker and his doctors lack the legal standing to challenge the state’s ban on physician-assisted suicide.
Google Fiber Gets Its ‘Time At The Podium’ To Pitch Nashville Businesses On Ultra-Fast Internet
Listen This has been the year of the telecom companies. Comcast, AT&T and Google Fiber have not only announced their plans to deploy competing gigabit-speed Internet services in Nashville — they’ve also been vying for the attention of the city’s business, nonprofit and political leaders. Wednesday morning brought another example of that, when Google Fiber gave […]
Syrian Refugees ‘Challenge Every Moral Fiber Within Us,’ Says Corker
Listen The flood of refugees from the civil war in Syria “should challenge every moral fiber within us,” U.S. Senator Bob Corker said Tuesday morning. The remarks by the Tennessee Republican opened a hearing of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee aimed at finding ways to help the 11 million people — half of them children — […]
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