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Businesses are making fewer background checks because of the economy causing one Metro department a revenue shortfall.

The first veteran’s health clinic in Tennessee devoted solely to caring for women opened in Nashville today.

The Nashville Mayor’s office released a new capital improvements budget last week, slashing over $100 million worth of projects. One department head says the revised list is actually better.

A consortium of healthcare providers met with President Obama yesterday and pledged to cut costs by as much as 2-trillion dollars as part of health care reform. A local hospital CEO downplayed that announcement today.

Davidson County homeowners are appealing their tax reappraisals at about the same rate as the last time homes were revalued four years ago.

One Metro department escaped the budgetary axe and actually got an increase in Mayor Karl Dean’s spending plan for the next fiscal year. That’s because Dean wants to focus public transit monies on a regional network.

Deputy Governor John Morgan says he now thinks the state will accept 100-percent of federal stimulus dollars for unemployment.

Mayor Karl Dean says his first list of construction projects reflects his administration’s priorities to fund items benefiting citizens, not Metro Departments.

With the announcement that it’s hired a consultant and established an advisory board, the Mayor’s office signaled yesterday it’s wading into the morass of how to pay for the city’s safety net hospital.

The Metro Council delayed a bill again last night that would bring Nashville’s fire code in line with international standards.