WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican senators angrily challenged Sen. Tommy Tuberville on his blockade of almost 400 military officers Wednesday evening, taking over the Senate floor for more than four hours to call for individual confirmation votes after a monthslong stalemate.

2. It’ll take time for new chicks to become egg producers - Friday, January 27, 2023

The nation’s egg shortage could continue for another year, even though prices have slightly declined from record highs in recent weeks.

That’s the word from Dale Barnett, executive director of the Shelbyville-based Tennessee Poultry Association, an organization that supports, educates and promotes the sustainability of the state’s integrated broiler/breeder industry.

3. Gresham Smith makes Changes to board - Friday, November 18, 2022

Architecture, engineering and design firm Gresham Smith has announced changes and additions to its board of directors, effective Jan. 1. Those changes include:

• CEO and board director Rodney Chester has been elected to chair the board. Chester, who has been with the firm for 24 years, is immediate past-president of the Tennessee chapter of the American Council of Engineering Companies. He also is on the board of GraceWorks Ministries and serves on the advisory board for his alma mater, the University of Alabama.

4. Nashville ‘a roof shy’ of landing other major events - Friday, May 13, 2022

If the Titans build an enclosed stadium and Nashville someday hosts a Super Bowl, rest assured the Music City hospitality industry is confident it can handle the crowds that come with such events.

That’s the word from Leesa LeClaire, president and CEO of the Greater Nashville Hospitality Association.

5. Universities to buses: Tennessee COVID law exemptions sought - Friday, November 12, 2021

NASHVILLE (AP) — Universities, transportation agencies and the operator of a national laboratory are among those landing exemptions to a new Tennessee law that strictly limits or prohibits most government entities and businesses from implementing COVID-19 prevention mandates. For some, approval was almost immediate.

6. Top Davidson County residential sales for second quarter 2021 - Friday, July 16, 2021

Top residential real estate sales, second quarter 2021, for Davidson County, as compiled by Chandler Reports.

Chandler Reports has been publishing Real Estate Market Data since 1968. That year, Chandler began collecting residential sales information for the Chandler Residential Report, considered the authoritative source for residential real estate sales information. Over the next three decades, the publications have been continually refined, enhanced and expanded, growing to include lot sales data, new residential construction and absorption information, and commercial sales. In 1987, Chandler Reports began one of the first on–line real estate market data services in the country, and is a nationally recognized leader in the industry. In 2004, Chandler Reports was purchased by The Daily News Publishing Co. In 2007, Chandler introduced RegionPlus, including property research for Nashville and Middle Tennessee. Visit online at chandlerreports.com.

7. Inside one network cashing in on vaccine disinformation - Friday, May 14, 2021

The couple in the website videos could be hawking any number of products.

"You're going to love owning the platinum package," Charlene Bollinger tells viewers, as a picture of a DVD set, booklets and other products flashes on screen. Her husband, Ty, promises a "director's cut edition," and over 100 hours of additional footage.

8. Top Davidson County residential sales for April 2021 - Friday, May 14, 2021

Top residential real estate sales, April 2021, for Davidson County, as compiled by Chandler Reports.

Chandler Reports has been publishing Real Estate Market Data since 1968. That year, Chandler began collecting residential sales information for the Chandler Residential Report, considered the authoritative source for residential real estate sales information. Over the next three decades, the publications have been continually refined, enhanced and expanded, growing to include lot sales data, new residential construction and absorption information, and commercial sales. In 1987, Chandler Reports began one of the first on–line real estate market data services in the country, and is a nationally recognized leader in the industry. In 2004, Chandler Reports was purchased by The Daily News Publishing Co. In 2007, Chandler introduced RegionPlus, including property research for Nashville and Middle Tennessee. Visit online at chandlerreports.com.

9. Not just COVID: Nursing home neglect deaths surge in shadows - Friday, November 20, 2020

When COVID-19 tore through Donald Wallace's nursing home, he was one of the lucky few to avoid infection.

He died a horrible death anyway.

10. Not just COVID: Nursing home neglect deaths surge in shadows - Friday, November 13, 2020

When COVID-19 tore through Donald Wallace's nursing home, he was one of the lucky few to avoid infection.

He died a horrible death anyway.

Hale and happy before the pandemic, the 75-year-old retired Alabama truck driver became so malnourished and dehydrated that he dropped to 98 pounds and looked to his son like he'd been in a concentration camp. Septic shock suggested an untreated urinary infection, E. coli in his body from his own feces hinted at poor hygiene, and aspiration pneumonia indicated Wallace, who needed help with meals, had likely choked on his food.

11. Top Davidson County commercial sales for September 2020 - Friday, October 30, 2020

Top commercial real estate sales, September 2020, for Davidson County, as compiled by Chandler Reports.

Chandler Reports has been publishing Real Estate Market Data since 1968. That year, Chandler began collecting residential sales information for the Chandler Residential Report, considered the authoritative source for residential real estate sales information. Over the next three decades, the publications have been continually refined, enhanced and expanded, growing to include lot sales data, new residential construction and absorption information, and commercial sales. In 1987, Chandler Reports began one of the first on–line real estate market data services in the country, and is a nationally recognized leader in the industry. In 2004, Chandler Reports was purchased by The Daily News Publishing Co. In 2007, Chandler introduced RegionPlus, including property research for Nashville and Middle Tennessee. Visit online at chandlerreports.com.

12. GOP reckons with polarizing candidates amid civil unrest - Friday, June 5, 2020

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Republican Party is facing a reckoning over some of its most divisive candidates. So far the results are mixed, and that's dicey for the GOP as a country shuddering from coast-to-coast civic unrest hurtles toward November elections.

13. Nursing home infections, deaths surge amid lockdown measures - Friday, April 3, 2020

Nursing homes across the country have been in lockdown for weeks under federal orders to protect their frail, elderly residents from coronavirus, but a wave of deadly outbreaks nearly every day since suggests that the measures including a ban on visits and daily health screenings of staffers either came too late or were not rigorous enough.

14. Trump ally Roger Stone sentenced to over 3 years in prison - Friday, February 21, 2020

WASHINGTON (AP) — Trump loyalist Roger Stone was sentenced Thursday to more than three years in federal prison, following an extraordinary move by Attorney General William Barr to back off his Justice Department's original sentencing recommendation.

15. Trump ally Roger Stone to be sentenced as case roils DOJ - Friday, February 14, 2020

WASHINGTON (AP) — Roger Stone, a staunch ally of President Donald Trump, faces sentencing Thursday on his convictions for witness tampering and lying to Congress.

The action in federal court comes amid Trump's unrelenting defense of his longtime confidant that has led to a mini-revolt inside the Justice Department and allegations the president has interfered in the case.

16. 4 lawyers quit case after DOJ decision on Stone prison time - Friday, February 7, 2020

WASHINGTON (AP) — Four lawyers who prosecuted Roger Stone quit the case Tuesday after the Justice Department said it would take the extraordinary step of lowering the amount of prison time it would seek for President Donald Trump's longtime ally and confidant.

17. Top Middle Tennessee commercial sales for August 2019 - Friday, October 4, 2019

Top commercial real estate sales, August 2019, for Davidson, Williamson, Rutherford, Wilson and Sumner counties, as compiled by Chandler Reports.

18. What statewide candidates say about opioids, public safety - Friday, July 6, 2018

The spread of opioid abuse claimed more than 1,600 lives in Tennessee in 2016, and it is getting worse. Methamphetamine abuse, while not getting the headlines, has increased. Gun violence and murder is increasing. What proposals do our candidates have to help Tennesseans address these public safety issues?

19. Top Middle Tennessee commercial sales for May 2018 - Friday, June 29, 2018

Top commercial real estate sales, May 2018, for Davidson, Williamson, Rutherford, Wilson and Sumner counties, as compiled by Chandler Reports.

20. Fall Creek Falls project leaves destructive trail - Friday, May 11, 2018

The Fall Creek Falls Inn and Conference Center will soon be in ruins like the livelihoods of the state employees who worked there.

Fewer than half the state employees who worked at the inn found new state jobs after it closed in early April. Some are working for nearly half the pay, and some had to move away from Van Buren County or drive long distances to keep a job with the state.

21. Sex Week seems tame compared to Legislature's antics - Friday, April 20, 2018

Why should UT Knoxville be limited to its annual Sex Week when Tennessee legislators are celebrating year-round?

Based on the scurrilous reports published in these parts over the last couple of years, state legislators are doing more than collecting per diems in Nashville, and there’s plenty of evidence to prove it.

22. Lots of noise but few results in Legislature - Friday, April 13, 2018

Just when you think the Tennessee Legislature is going off the deep end, someone will throw them a bungee cord. Maybe a rope made out of hemp would work better because a bungee cord leaves people bouncing, never quite reeling them in.

23. Events - Friday, October 6, 2017

Street Food Thursday. Enjoy a gathering of up to 20 local food trucks parked along Deaderick Street between 4th Avenue North and 5th Avenue North.

FRIDAY, OCT. 13

Nashville Steam Open House

Celebrate the Nashville Chattanooga & St. Louis Railway No 576 in Centennial Park, just west of the Parthenon, 27th Ave. North, at the train. Enjoy locomotive tours, vintage automobiles, food trucks, silent auction, kid’s activities and more. 4-9 p.m. Information: Nashvillesteam.org

24. Patent attorney launches intellectual law practice - Friday, July 28, 2017

Patent attorney A.J. Bahou has opened Bahou Law, PLLC. Bahou is experienced in trials and mediations, and is a registered patent attorney who practices in the area of electrical and computer engineering technologies, Blockchain, data privacy, cyber security, health care and intellectual property law, including litigation management of patents, copyrights, trademarks, and trade secrets.

25. Tennessee, Left Coast a world apart on immigration - Friday, June 30, 2017

San Francisco resident Terry Karlsson relishes her hometown’s reputation for embracing “multi-cultural diversity.”

The wife of a Swedish immigrant, Karlsson says she believes San Francisco’s status as a sanctuary city, one in which it refuses to participate in the enforcement of federal immigration law, reflects a nation born of people who moved here, a land of immigrants from many countries.

26. Mistreated GOP legislators only want to be heard - Friday, April 14, 2017

Word has it extra tissue will be placed on the desks of some House members in the coming weeks so they can dry their tears of pain.

It seems a faction of the Republican supermajority just hasn’t gotten a fair hearing – from their own party – on opposition to Gov. Bill Haslam’s IMPROVE Act, which contains a dreaded gas and diesel tax increase to rebuild the state’s roads and bridges. It’s the gas tax versus the surplus, which is pretty big at $1 billion in one-time money and another billion in extra recurring money.

27. Restaurants keep Valentine spirit alive by creating an experience - Friday, February 3, 2017

Something began to shift in Nashville’s dining scene about a decade or so ago.

A once-minimal restaurant landscape started to expand, slowly at first with a new wave of pioneers joining the Randy Rayburns and Jody Faisons – City House in Germantown, Watermark and Flyte in The Gulch, the beginnings of Strategic Hospitality’s reign all over.

28. High-scoring Ohio a good warmup for Florida game - Friday, September 16, 2016

Tennessee football returns to normalcy this week, if you call a noon EDT kickoff normal.

The Vols survived a Thursday night scare in the season opener against Appalachian State in Neyland Stadium. Then they roared from behind last Saturday at Bristol Motor Speedway and beat Virginia Tech 45-24 in the Pilot Flying J. Battle at Bristol before a college football record crowd of 156,990.

29. Haves, have-nots get varied levels of tax relief from legislators - Friday, May 13, 2016

Amid the rancor of bathroom and counseling bills, two major pieces of legislation slipped through the General Assembly this session with hardly a peep – elimination of the Hall tax and a partial revitalization of property tax relief for seniors and disabled veterans.

30. Statewide demand outstrips supply of qualified workers - Friday, April 1, 2016

Tennessee is surging as a major manufacturing state, bouncing back from the Great Recession by attracting billions of dollars in new investment and creating thousands of new – and often very high-paying – advanced manufacturing jobs.

31. Nashville’s most romantic restaurants - Friday, February 6, 2015

Romance means something different for everyone, but most people can agree that if there is low lighting, soft music, a charming companion and something delicious to eat, you’ve already got the makings of one outstanding evening.

32. Can old favorites survive Nashville's ‘foodie’ revolution? - Friday, February 6, 2015

A few years ago, Tandy Wilson, chef and owner of City House, offered this tip about earning his respect as a diner: Don’t tell me you’re a foodie, he said, tell me you’re a “regular.”

33. Tennessee voters to decide on veterans gaming measure - Friday, October 10, 2014

NASHVILLE (AP) — A proposed constitutional amendment to allow charitable gaming fundraisers for veterans groups may not carry the same excitement as other Tennessee ballot measures on abortion, judges and income taxes, but supporters say it would correct an omission dating to the approval of the state lottery in 2002.

34. For those who dare to ‘think different’: Budding entrepreneurs find a friend in Burcham - Friday, March 7, 2014

Michael Burcham accepted his Kiwanis Club’s 2013 Nashvillian of the Year award with a moving and resonant speech that was less about his own accomplishments than about creating opportunities for those who are marginalized by society.

35. Grand new grub: Top chefs, hot restaurants are drawing a new breed of tourist to Music City - Friday, February 14, 2014

Sure, most tourists come to Nashville for the music. But the city’s burgeoning culinary scene is starting to attract visitors more attuned to their palates than their ears.

The emergence of culinary tourism combined with a booming landscape of chef-driven restaurants is drawing foodies – a well-heeled set with sophisticated palates who are more inclined to put “Eat at The Catbird Seat” ahead of “Visit Tootsie’s” and “See the Grand Ole Opry” on their travel checklists.

36. 12 artists inducted into Musicians Hall of Fame - Friday, January 24, 2014

NASHVILLE (AP) — The Musicians Hall of Fame inducted 12 new members across the genres, including bluesman Buddy Guy, British rock guitarist Peter Frampton and pedal steel player and country singer Barbara Mandrell.

37. Top Midstate commercial real estate transactions for August 2013 - Friday, September 27, 2013

Top August 2013 commercial real estate transactions for Davidson, Williamson, Rutherford, Wilson and Sumner counties, as compiled by Chandler Reports.

38. Top Midstate commercial real estate transactions for March 2013 - Friday, April 19, 2013

Top March 2013 commercial real estate transactions for Davidson, Williamson, Rutherford, Wilson and Sumner counties, as compiled by Chandler Reports.

39. Nashville State quietly grows to 10K+ students, 3 campuses - Friday, April 5, 2013

Everything old is new again at Nashville State Community College, which has repurposed part of the Hickory Hollow Mall into a thriving new campus even as it reconfigures space at its White Bridge Road main location and strengthens its new Clarksville satellite.

40. Top Midstate residential real estate transactions for February 2013 - Friday, March 22, 2013

Top February 2013 residential real estate transactions for Davidson, Williamson, Rutherford, Wilson and Sumner counties, as compiled by Chandler Reports.

41. Where are you now? - Friday, October 5, 2012

After scoring a degree in biology in the mid ‘80s, Jimmy Harnen, to the delight of his parents, was heading to dental or medical school.

But first, Harnen decided to throw a Hail Mary pass.

42. Might be good time to ‘love the one you’re with’ - Friday, September 30, 2011

I ran into an executive from the automobile industry at the Elvis Costello concert at the Ryman. A smashing performance by Liverpool’s Elvis and an interesting conversation with the man from the motor trade, a term made famous by some other Liverpudlians.