VOL. 39 | NO. 41 | Friday, October 9, 2015
Mary-Michael and Joe Horowitz know their son Armour, 5, can handle the academics of kindergarten. But instead of pushing him through to meet state age cutoff standards, they decided to delay his start until next year when he is older and emotionally ready.
Preston Abraham had always imagined he would go to Vanderbilt University after graduating from Goodpasture Christian School in the spring, but it’s not the only dream school in the running anymore.
At Nashville’s Akiva School, each graduating class creates a gift for the school and future students: framed artwork, a mosaic, a treehouse or a garden.
All tuition prices are for the 2015-2016 academic school year unless otherwise noted. Some tuition prices are subject to change. Some schools have additional fees, payment plans and other programs such as need-based financial aid, tuition breaks for siblings or for religion, or other types of aid. Please contact the individual schools for more information. Compiled by Hollie Deese.
VIEW FROM THE HILL
The ink wasn’t dry on standards for Metro Nashville’s local-hire charter amendment when new Mayor Megan Barry put the measure on hold – despite sizable support in the August election.
REALTY CHECK
TRID is upon us. Long live TRID. With the time and money that the industry has invested in crowning this monarch now ruling the real estate closing, the hope is that she will hang around for a while.
TENNESSEE TITANS
Some team has to win the AFC South. League rules require it, even if no team truly deserves to go to the playoffs.
UT SPORTS
Please, coach. Just say the right thing. Please. Tennessee football coach Butch Jones lost another press conference Monday, two days after his team blew a 14-0 lead and lost to Arkansas 24-20 at Neyland Stadium.
NEWSMAKERS
The YWCA of Nashville & Middle Tennessee has elected three new members for the 2015-2016 board term, including former Mayor Karl Dean.
BEHIND THE WHEEL
Buyers typically don’t associate Kia with luxury, but its 2016 top-level Sorento SX-Luxury model is so robust in its looks, pleasing in its ride and stocked with features that it feels like a luxury SUV.
GUERRILLA MARKETING
Company culture can make or break a sales team.
CAREER CORNER
The last time you applied for a job, you probably assumed your application and resume were the only things your future employer used to make a decision about whether or not to hire you.
I SWEAR
For the guy who said “It ain’t over ‘til it’s over,” it’s over. Yogi Berra – catcher, coach, manager and quip-coining character extraordinaire – died Sept. 22 of natural causes. He was 90 years old.
STATEWIDE
NASHVILLE (AP) - Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton has named a 46-member Tennessee leadership team headlined by U.S. Reps. Jim Cooper of Nashville and Steve Cohen of Memphis.
HEALTH CARE
NASHVILLE (AP) - A recent annual report has revealed that the estimated number of Tennesseans without health insurance has dropped again.
WASHINGTON (AP) — It's getting harder to sign up the uninsured for health coverage.
UnitedHealth Group's third-quarter profit slipped, but the nation's largest health insurer still beat Wall Street expectations due partly to fast growth in pharmacy benefits management and other areas outside its core business.
NEW YORK (AP) — Valeant Pharmaceuticals International Inc. says that federal prosecutors are seeking information on the drug developer's drug pricing, distribution and patient assistance program.
AUTO INDUSTRY
BERLIN (AP) — Germany's transport authority has ordered a mandatory recall of all 2.4 million Volkswagen cars in the country fitted with software that gave them the ability to evade diesel emissions testing, officials said Thursday.
DETROIT (AP) — Kia is recalling more than 377,000 Sorento SUVs because the transmission can be shifted out of park when the driver's foot isn't on the brake.
TECHNOLOGY
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Yahoo is trying to phase out passwords with an update to its mobile application for its email service.
REAL ESTATE
WASHINGTON (AP) — Average long-term U.S. mortgage rates rose this week yet remained below 4 percent for a 12th straight week.
NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS
NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks climbed on Thursday as investors responded to some positive earnings surprises. Financial stocks were boosted by a strong third-quarter earnings report from Citigroup. Hospital shares slumped after HCA said its earnings would fall short of projections.
WASHINGTON (AP) — The number of Americans seeking unemployment aid fell last week, matching the lowest level in 42 years, strong evidence that employers remain confident enough in the economy to hold onto their staffs.
WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. consumer prices were dragged lower again last month by plunging energy costs, according to the Labor Department.
WASHINGTON (AP) — There will be no benefit increase next year for millions of Social Security recipients, disabled veterans and federal retirees, the government said Thursday.
NATIONAL POLITICS
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Treasury Department on Thursday told Congress that it needs to act by Nov. 3 or the government will be dangerously close to being unable to pay all its bills.
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama will keep 5,500 U.S. troops in Afghanistan when he leaves office in 2017, according to senior administration officials, casting aside his promise to end the war on his watch and instead ensuring he hands the conflict off to his successor.
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 14
STATEWIDE
NASHVILLE (AP) - Tennessee's general fund tax collections have beaten projections by $117 million through the first two months of the budget year.
NASHVILLE (AP) — Republican Gov. Bill Haslam's embattled new Tennessee logo has finally received approval from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.
HEALTH CARE
Paula Bennett pockets about $3,000 a year from her employer mainly for driving around 80 miles roundtrip for a deal on doses of her Crohn's disease treatment Remicade.
COURTS
NASHVILLE (AP) — Lawyers across Tennessee are providing free legal services in October to mark "Celebrate Pro Bono Month."
AUTO INDUSTRY
DETROIT (AP) — Electric car maker Tesla Motors is leapfrogging competitors with a new autopilot system that lets cars change lanes by themselves.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Volkswagen has disclosed to U.S. regulators that there is additional suspect software in its 2016 diesel models that would potentially help their exhaust systems run cleaner during government tests.
FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — The recently named head of Volkswagen's North American business won't be taking up his new job - and has left the company.
TOKYO (AP) — Toyota, under ambitious environmental targets, is aiming to sell hardly any regular gasoline vehicles by 2050, only hybrids and fuel cells, to radically reduce emissions.
NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Federal Reserve says steady consumer spending and an improving housing market spurred modest U.S. economic growth in the late summer, though factory output was sluggish in part because of the strong dollar.
NEW YORK (AP) — Weak earnings guidance from Wal-Mart and a couple of tepid reports on the economy pushed stocks lower on Wednesday.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Americans spent cautiously at retailers in September, with stepped-up spending for cars, clothes and restaurants tempered by sales declines for gasoline, building materials and online outlets.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Prices fell for manufacturers, farmers and other producers in September, as lower energy costs have limited broader inflation.
NEW YORK (AP) — Bank of America, the consumer banking giant, said it swung to a profit in the third quarter on Wednesday, helped by lower borrowing costs and legal expenses.
NEW YORK (AP) — Wells Fargo reported a slight gain in third-quarter earnings on Wednesday, helped by an increase in borrowing from consumers and businesses.
NATIONAL POLITICS
WASHINGTON (AP) — When does "free" cost a lot of money? It's when presidential contenders Hillary Rodham Clinton and Bernie Sanders pitch plans for free college tuition, playing down the cost to taxpayers and brushing past assorted other perils to the education system, as happened in the Democratic debate.
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 13
NASHVILLE AREA
Dollar General Corporation today announced it is restructuring its corporate support functions to eliminate approximately 255 positions.
STATEWIDE
NASHVILLE (AP) - Officials mulling over the privatization of operations at state buildings, college campuses, prisons and armories are being discouraged from putting their thoughts into emails.
NASHVILLE (AP) - The state Economic and Community Development Department is creating an $8 million program aimed at promoting projects in rural Tennessee.
TECHNOLOGY
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Twitter is laying off up to 336 employees, signaling CEO Jack Dorsey's resolve to slash costs while the company struggles to make money.
NEW YORK (AP) — Apple is adding Retina displays to its iMacs, which will enhance the text and the image quality of photos and videos.
AUTO INDUSTRY
LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Volkswagen clean diesel emissions scandal is still chugging along, but Hollywood already has its eyes on a possible movie about the ordeal.
FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — Volkswagen's flagship brand will switch to new diesel emissions control technology in Europe and North America as well as cut a billion euros ($1.1 billion) in annual investment spending.
NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS
NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. stocks dropped on Tuesday for the first day in five as investors assessed company earnings and the latest corporate deal news. More evidence of weakness in China's economy also unsettled the market.
BRUSSELS (AP) — The world's biggest beer maker clinched a deal Tuesday to take over its nearest rival in a bid to stave off the megabrewers' most serious problems: the surge in popularity of craft brews and weakening sales in the rich markets of the U.S. and Europe.
NEW YORK (AP) — Playboy is about to find out how many people really do read it for the articles.
MONDAY, OCTOBER 12
COURTS
NASHVILLE (AP) - Three appeals judges appointed by Gov. Bill Haslam are among the nine applicants to fill a vacancy on the bench of Tennessee's highest court.
AUTO INDUSTRY
BEIJING (AP) — Volkswagen said Monday it is recalling 1,950 diesel vehicles in China to change engine software it has admitted cheats on emissions tests and Singapore suspended sales of the company's diesel cars.
MILAN (AP) — Fiat Chrysler Automobiles NV has begun the process of selling a near 10-percent stake in luxury sports car brand Ferrari to Wall Street investors.
NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS
NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks are closing higher as traders look ahead to a busy week for corporate earnings.
NEW YORK (AP) — A survey of business economists finds that a majority still expect the Federal Reserve to raise interest rates before the end of the year, with the broader economy expected to grow at a slightly faster pace in 2015 than previously forecast.
A day after technological problems delayed hundreds of flights, operations appear to have returned to normal Monday for Southwest Airlines.
NEW YORK (AP) — Dell is buying data storage company EMC in a deal valued at approximately $67 billion, a move that will transform the PC company into a major player in the data storage market.
STOCKHOLM (AP) — Angus Deaton of Princeton University won the Nobel prize in economics Monday for improving understanding of poverty and how people in poor countries respond to changes in economic policy.
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 9
MIDSTATE
MURFREESBORO (AP) — Rutherford County Chief Administrative Officer Joe Russell has been suspended for 10 days without pay after records showed he used his work email to conduct business unrelated to his job.
AUTO INDUSTRY
DETROIT (AP) — The United Auto Workers union unveiled a richer proposed contract with Fiat Chrysler on Friday, a week after angry union members voted down a previous agreement.
DETROIT (AP) — Volkswagen could compensate owners of diesel-powered cars that emit high levels of pollutants, possibly by paying them for the lost value of their vehicles, the company's top U.S. executive said.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Volkswagen's top U.S. executive offered deep apologies yet sought to distance himself Thursday from the emissions scandal enveloping the world's largest automaker, asserting top corporate officials had no knowledge of the cheating software installed in 11 million diesel cars.
NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS
WASHINGTON (AP) — It's a question whose answer seems to be in constant flux: When will the Federal Reserve finally raise interest rates?
NEW YORK (AP) — The stock market closed out its best week this year with a modest gain on Friday, helped by airlines and industrial companies.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Cheaper oil and less demand for autos and machinery weighed on wholesalers in August, as their inventories edged up just slightly while sales dropped.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal Reserve officials were almost ready to raise interest rates in September but held off because of China's economic slowdown and its potential to derail U.S. growth and inflation.
WASHINGTON (AP) — More flights are arriving on time but consumer complaints about the airlines have risen sharply.
NATIONAL POLITICS
WASHINGTON (AP) — With no warning, Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy withdrew Thursday from the contest for speaker of the U.S. House, shocking fellow Republicans just before voting was to begin and plunging Congress into chaos.