VOL. 35 | NO. 12 | Friday, March 25, 2011
Reduced price points, condo-to-apartment conversions offer new options for urban living
Many of those who wanted to live in or near downtown a few years ago but couldn’t swing the prices may be getting a do-over.
Metro Airport is gradually upgrading its camera system in order to enhance security and surveillance throughout the facility.
Eco-consciousness, which seems to be gaining traction across the country, and especially here in Tennessee, had to start somewhere.
Rob Masri was a traveling man. From Miami to Denver, Seattle to New York, he visited every city, large and small, for his previous job as chief development officer of the University of Virginia Alumni School.
It only weighs about a pound, it’s sleek and thin and, from a distance, could almost be mistaken for some kind of clipboard.
GET A JOB!
Some occupations require the use of the curriculum vitae instead of a resume. It is important to understand the difference and when to use one approach instead of the other.
NEWSMAKERS
Revive, a national public relations firm specializing in Health Services and Healthy Living, has announced the opening of a second office in Nashville.
I SWEAR
“I’ve never unbuckled a dead man.” So said a law enforcement officer, later quoted by both Dear Abby and her sister, Ann Landers.
KAY'S COOKING CORNER
Lent, the Old English word for spring, is a 40-day period before Easter, beginning on Ash Wednesday. It derived that name from the season of the year during in which the 40 days fall. This name is unique to English. In almost all other languages its name is a derivative of the Latin term Quadragesima, or “the forty days.”
STATE LEGISLATURE
NASHVILLE (AP) — A set of immigration bills that includes an Arizona-style provision allowing local law enforcement agents to question suspects about their immigration status passed a House subcommittee on Wednesday.
NASHVILLE (AP) — Add the election of Supreme Court justices and appellate judges to the list of disagreements between the top two Republicans at the Tennessee Statehouse.
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Legislation that seeks to create more charter schools in Tennessee would hurt public schools, critics said of the proposal that advanced in the Senate on Wednesday.
NASHVILLE (AP) — A House panel has parked a bill to exchange a reduction in Tennessee's sales tax on groceries with an increase in the tax on sugary drinks.
NASHVILLE (AP) — Republican House Speaker Beth Harwell of Nashville has cast a tiebreaking vote to keep a bill curbing teachers' collective bargaining rights alive.
NASHVILLE (AP) — A Senate panel has rejected a proposed constitutional amendment to limit lawmakers to eight years per chamber of the General Assembly.
STATEWIDE
NASHVILLE (AP) — HealthStream Inc., which provides Internet-based educational and training content for health care professionals, said Wednesday that it signed an amendment with SunTrust Bank to increase its line of credit to $20 million from $15 million.
NASHVILLE (AP) — An analysis of federal data shows that Tennessee ranks eighth best in maintaining its bridges.
NATIONAL BUSINESS
WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States is out of step with the rest of the world's richest industrialized nations: Its economy is growing faster than theirs but creating far fewer jobs.
OMAHA, Nebraska (AP) — The high-ranking Berkshire Hathaway executive who suddenly resigned this week says he wants to start his own investment firm patterned after Warren Buffett's company.
BRUSSELS (AP) — Microsoft Corp. on Thursday threw its weight behind an existing probe by European Union authorities into whether rival Google Inc. is unfairly thwarting competition in the online search market.
NATIONAL POLITICS
WASHINGTON (AP) — The tea partiers who helped drive GOP gains in the last election are rallying in the city they love to hate Thursday, urging Republican House leaders — Speaker John Boehner above all — to resist the drive toward compromise in the protracted fight over the federal budget.
WASHINGTON (AP) — The House is expected to take up a bill Thursday to provide long-term authority for aviation programs, but a possible veto looms if lawmakers persist in proposed funding cuts or include a provision strongly opposed by labor unions.