The city of Nashville is hiring its first ever “chief data officer” — a person described in a new job posting as an “evangelist for data.” This new city staffer will be tasked with updating Metro’s “open data” project, in…
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TDOT Enters 21st Century In Partnership With Waze Traffic App
The Tennessee Department of Transportation plans to expand its SmartWay traffic monitoring system through a new data-sharing partnership with Waze, a free navigation app powered by a community of drivers all sharing information on road conditions. Designed as a free,…
Read MoreMemphis Democrat Wants to Restrict First Amendment Rights
The Confederate flag has disappeared from some places, but it’s still on some Tennessee license plates. The controversial flag landed on the agenda on Capitol Hill on Monday where lawmakers are weighing in on a lot of hot button issues,…
Read MoreClarksville Police: Taking Photos in Public Now a Crime
A Clarksville man was arrested Tuesday after a frightened woman told police he followed her around a Clarksville store for 20 minutes apparently taking photos of her. Clarksville Police arrived at Hobby Lobby at 11:21 a.m. and met the woman…
Read MoreLocal Anglican Priest Gets Political With Trump Essay
The email inbox of Thomas McKenzie, an Anglican priest in Nashville, is drowning in backlash after he penned an anti-Donald Trump essay in response to the Republican presidential front-runner’s rhetoric and mounting success. About a week before Tennesseans overwhelmingly picked…
Read MoreTakeaways from Last Week’s GOP Debate
You can give it this much. The Thursday night GOP debate was civil, and probably the last one, too. Rubio is done, Kasich is on vapors and Senator Ted will never stop the Trump Express. In short, The Donald didn’t…
Read MoreHorror: East TN Police Shoot and Kill Another Unarmed Man
A Middle Tennessee man was killed by a Lenoir City police officer overnight when the victim allegedly attempted to flee a DUI stop, according to the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation. The officer, whose name has not been released, had made…
Read MoreTN’s Fetal Assault Law Gets More National Attention
When she went into labor in late 2014, Brittany Hudson couldn’t go to the hospital. The 24 year-old east Tennessee native had been abusing prescription drugs for years and knew that, under a new state law, if her baby was…
Read MoreShock: NSA Routinely Spying on Tennesseans
A while back, we noted a report showing that the “sneak-and-peek” provision of the Patriot Act that was alleged to be used only in national security and terrorism investigations has overwhelmingly been used in narcotics cases. Now the New York…
Read MoreFive Disasters That Have Defined Nashville
One of Nashville’s biggest disasters was an enormous fire that broke out in East Nashville on March 22, 1916. As we approach the 100-year anniversary of that event, we look back on five defining disasters that have occurred in the…
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