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JetBlue Airways announced today it is canceling service to and from Nashville. The discount airline began offering three flights to New York City just last year. The company will eliminate flights to Nashville and Columbus, Ohio beginning January 6th. Dave Barger, JetBlue’s CEO made the announcement during today’s 3rd Quarter meeting. “These markets did not […]

Governor Phil Bredesen will be leaving this weekend on a trade mission to China. Tennessee was ranked as the nation’s fourth largest export state to China last year, shipping goods like cotton, chemicals and electronics. The Governor says Tennessee will also open an economic development office in Beijing to show China how serious the state […]

Band and orchestra programs in Metro Public Schools got a huge boost today with a 655-thousand dollar donation from the Country Music Association. Music education at Metro schools is barely funded – less than 143-thousand dollars is spread out across the district for instruments, repairs and uniforms.

Viewing public records in Tennessee is no easy task. That’s what a legislative subcommittee studying the issue of open records heard today. Hedy Weinberg, ACLU’s Executive Director in Tennessee, told committee members that she believes one of the major flaws with the state’s open records law is requiring people to appear in person to view […]

A 2-year old pilot program that uses Global Positioning Systems to monitor sex offenders is expanding. The Board of Probation and Parole currently monitors 330 high risk sex offenders in 8 cities, including Nashville, with a GPS ankle bracelet. Their actions are recorded 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. If they wander into […]

With a few exceptions all enclosed public places in Tennessee are smoke-free today. The smoking ban applies to restaurants, workplaces, sports arenas and hotels. April Anderson is a bartender at Nashville’s popular restaurant SouthStreet. She says a lot of people she works with are wondering if their bar business will slow down. “I think it’ll […]

Local union workers at the General Motors plant in Spring Hill are in their second day of a nationwide strike against the company. About 800 workers walked out of the plant yesterday morning. When the facility opened as a Saturn plant, the company was protected from strikes, but two years ago, GM changed its agreement […]

Fort Campbell soldiers have only been home from Iraq for a year. Now, due to the President’s troop surge, they’­re heading out again with soldiers from the 1st Brigade leaving this month. WPLN’s Jacqueline Fellows sat down with brigade commander, Colonel Michael McBride to talk about the challenges of leaving families again in such a short time.

The Southern Baptist Convention is among 20 major religious organizations who say the Food and Drug Administration should regulate cigarettes. An earlier Supreme Court decision sided with tobacco companies, saying the FDA’s authority didn’t extend to tobacco products, but a new bill could change that. In the Senate, the measure has passed a key committee, […]