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Governor Bill Haslam says the state should keep learning as it goes when it comes to evaluating teachers.

Tennessee Senator Bob Corker was among those questioning the CEO of J.P. Morgan Chase yesterday. While some senators grilled Jamie Dimon over the two billion dollars his company lost earlier this year on a bad hedge, Corker chose a different tack.

Tennessee Senator Lamar Alexander says he will vote to uphold a clean-air rule, even as attackers say he’s siding with President Obama in a quote “war on coal.”

Tennessee once again brought in more tax dollars than expected last month. That’s been the case for the whole budget year so far. But today’s numbers came with a few words of caution.

A new review of how Tennessee evaluates its teachers makes relatively few recommendations that would take approval from state lawmakers. But an outgoing Republican senator says one of them is a doozey.

A long-awaited review of Tennessee’s system for evaluating teachers came out yesterday. Six months ago Governor Bill Haslam asked the education group SCORE to study the new system, after hearing complaints from educators about the fairness of the evaluation, and how much time it takes.

The National Folk Festival is facing some tough questions about its plans for Nashville this year. Last summer the downtown music festival didn’t go as well as organizers had hoped, and what they’ll do this year is unclear.

Last month’s home sales in the Nashville area were the best since the economic meltdown four years ago. And home prices, while not what they once were, are showing improvement.

An Arizona-based charter school operator says it won’t give up on expanding into Nashville. Great Hearts Academies is appealing a rejection from the Metro School Board this month. Even if it doesn’t win approval this year, Great Hearts says it won’t walk away.