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After nearly a year of discussion, the proposed May Town Center project did not pass the Metro Planning Commission Thursday night.

Nashville Congressman Jim Cooper is not on any of the committees dealing directly with health care reform this summer. But he teaches health care policy at Vanderbilt University and has become known as some-what of an expert. WPLN’s Christine Buttorff sat down with Congressman Cooper to talk about the health care proposal that he’s supporting.

A former national healthcare information technology director says Tennessee could become a center for the industry.

At a West Nashville community meeting last night tempers of residents, Metro Council members and the developer of the proposed May Town Center, flared over the project’s impact.

Congressman Jim Cooper says the term “rationing” in the health care reform debate is usually thrown around to derail the discussion.

If you live in Jackson or Cookeville or have been driving through the areas, you may have heard some ads bashing two Tennessee Congressmen. Voting numbers in recent elections indicate John Tanner and Bart Gordon’s districts are trending Republican and the National Republican Congressional Committee is taking aim. WPLN’s Christine Buttorff reports.

Welfare rolls have increased about 12-percent over last year in Tennessee, but the number of people using food stamps has jumped 22 percent.

In order to increase revenues, the Tennessee Board of Regents’ finance committee voted to increase tuition today.

The Mayor’s office hasn’t filed a financing package for Nashville’s new downtown convention center with the Metro Council, which will have to sign off on the deal.

Nashville Mayor Karl Dean says he’s inviting the mayors of surrounding counties and cities to begin meeting monthly to address regional issues.