Years later, Desneige VanCleve still won’t eat pancakes. After all, when that’s all you eat six months out of the year for much of your childhood, it’s not something you exactly crave as an adult. In fact, she’d just as…
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Hundreds of TN Lawyers Work for Free for Poor Clients
Lawyers across Tennessee are providing free legal services in October to mark “Celebrate Pro Bono Month.” The Tennessee Bar Association says the initiative is in its seventh year and brings together legal services providers with local bar associations, law schools,…
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Big Cat Seen in West TN
Officials with the Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency have launched an investigation after they received a photo showing what could be a cougar in the western part of the state. The photo in question was apparently taken around 8 p.m. on…
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LT Gov Urges Christians To Carry Firearms
Tennessee Lt. Governor Ron Ramsey encouraged his “fellow Christians” to arm themselves and “think about getting a handgun carry permit.” This statement, on Ramsey’s Facebook page, comes following the mass shooting in Oregon Thursday. The gunman, Christopher Harper Mercer, was…
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Rethinking Solutions to Homelessness in Nashville
More than 30 people — ranging from the homeless, to members of the new mayor’s administration — met Monday to discuss a possible new policy to allow camping villages in Nashville. The brainstorming session followed closely after the city broke…
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Growth Spills Over Into North Nashville
With the new Nashville Sounds ballpark, Farmers’ Market and the attractions of downtown just moments away, the Buena Vista and Elizabeth Park neighborhoods on the city’s north side are attracting new attention from builders and homebuyers. “I guess the secret’s…
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Legislature May Pursue Federal Nullification Laws
Last week, among the reported 400 attendees at a “Religious Freedom Rally” in front of the state Capitol sponsored by the Tennessee Pastor Network, were about 40 state legislators. The rally, which featured several topical speakers — Rafael Cruz, father…
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Local Rabbi Supports Scandal Plagued Abortion Provider
The oldest and largest Jewish congregation in Nashville has opened its synagogue to Planned Parenthood for its annual Middle Tennessee fundraiser. The women’s health non-profit — known in part as a provider of abortions — has struggled this year to…
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Williamson County Still Fastest Growing in the State
The Nashville metro area gained an average of 96 residents every day from 2013 to 2014, according to a new batch of U.S. Census Bureau data. Dive in, and you discover that those population rankings are a fresh reminder than…
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Nuclear Energy a Clean Power Option for the Future
A nuclear evolution is now occurring, in Tennessee. While it’s been a long and slow process, the Tennessee Valley Authority is moving closer to starting up one of its nuclear plants that it expects will displace coal and help curb…
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