Archives for November 2008

TennCare faces nearly a billion dollars in budget cuts next year, but bureau officials say they can easily meet the challenge with some help from the courts.

Nissan North America has announced it achieved its goals with a buyout program offered to employees in late July.

While the Republican Party is trying to reinvent itself at the national level, in Tennessee, it’s the Democrats who are doing the soul-searching.

State House Democrats gathered in Nashville last night to select new leadership. House Democratic Leader, Gary Odom, hung on to his post despite a last minute attempt by the governor to unseat him.

Fewer people will travel through Nashville International Airport this Thanksgiving week than last year, but getting there could be more difficult anyway.

In the past ten years, at least 25 Nashville record labels have shut their doors, while others have downsized or consolidated. That’s caused a lot of pain, but it’s also launched a new wave of music business entrepreneurs.

The lineup is taking shape for House Republican leadership in the state legislature, where only one of the eight open positions is contested.

Yesterday, Congress passed another extension of unemployment benefits. It’s the second this year.

Nashville leaders are divided on whether temporary shelters should go up

in the homeless encampment known as Tent City.