<!–Saxotech Paragraph Count: 8–> MURFREESBORO — Neighboring Lebanon and Loudon County in East Tennessee are among those offering economic packages in competition with Rutherford County for Project Tango, a secret proposal that could bring hundreds of jobs with it. The Lebanon City Council and Wilson County officials recently approved tax incentive deals designed to lure [...]
When Norwegian terrorist Anders Breivik planted a bomb in an Oslo government building, killing eight people, and later killed 68 (mostly teenagers) at a Labor Party Youth Camp in Norway’s Utoya Island, fingers immediately were pointed at a possible Al Qaeda or “jihadist” connection. But in the days that followed, the motivation for Breivik’s horrendous [...]
<!–Saxotech Paragraph Count: 4–> MURFREESBORO — One hundred and thirty-eight and counting. That’s how many combined years the Roach sisters of Woodbury have worked at MTSU. Youngest sister Betty Roach Smithson is the only sister still working on campus. Entering her 46th year in the Office of Student Affairs, Smithson has worked closely since 1965 [...]
<!–Saxotech Paragraph Count: 3–> MURFREESBORO — MTSU will celebrate the U.S. Constitution and civility on Tuesday, Sept. 13, with help from a special guest: James A. Leach, chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities. Leach, a 15-term U.S. congressman from Iowa, will speak on “Civility, the Constitution and the Courts” at 4:30 p.m. Sept. [...]
Armed with a bachelor’s degree in medical imaging, Latasha Stout thought upon graduating from Austin Peay State University that it wouldn’t take long to get a job in her field. More than two years later, the Clarksville, Tenn., woman makes $8.65 an hour caring for developmentally disabled people. “When I got out of school, I [...]
<!–Saxotech Paragraph Count: 2–> Even as annexations and population growth have vaulted Clarksville into the ranks of Tennessee’s five largest cities, the local Housing Authority still offers residents the same supply of low-income housing it has for the last 40 years. That, coupled with a lack of participation in a key federal voucher program, has [...]
Operation Enduring Freedom/Operation Iraqi Freedom Vietnam Era (18) Don N. Hodges – USA 1956 Gerald W. Davidson – Vietnam 1964 Charles G. Tucker – Vietnam 1965 George W. Burkheart – Vietnam 1965 John E. Fuqua – Vietnam 1966 Joseph R. Fulghum, Jr. – Vietnam 1967 Robert R. Boyd – Vietnam 1967 James V. Howard – [...]
<!–Saxotech Paragraph Count: 3–> In the Aug. 26 Tennessean was an article with the subheading, “Activists want Washington to concentrate on jobs.” The obligatory appeal assumed, falsely, that it is “Washington’s” job to create jobs. On the next page, another headline spoke of Murfreesboro wanting a “company to pick it for up to 1,150 jobs,” [...]
<!–Saxotech Paragraph Count: 4–> MURFREESBORO—A frenetic search for horseshoes, a vibrant step show and a spicy chili cookoff are just some of the events that will lend variety and excitement to MTSU’s Centennial Homecoming celebration, which is sponsored by the Student Government Association. “The homecoming committee is excited to celebrate the centennial homecoming with the [...]
MURFREESBORO — Chancellor Robert Corlew dispelled arguments this week that the new Islamic Center of Murfreesboro’s mosque on Veals Road will be a base for terrorism. “The allegations presented at the initial hearing include assertions that this structure will be used as a base to undermine our laws and our government, and perhaps even serve [...]
<!–Saxotech Paragraph Count: 12–> “This group, headed by Vice President Sells, was charged with developing a comprehensive and ongoing plan to teach, train and research ways to reinforce positive conflict resolution,” McPhee told the faculty who gathered Friday for a meeting at the university. “It is my desire and goal to promote a campus environment [...]
<!–Saxotech Paragraph Count: 3–> MURFREESBORO — The Islamic Center of Murfreesboro has a right by law to build a bigger place of worship, Chancellor Robert Corlew III decided today in upholding his May ruling. “Those who are adherents to Islam are entitled to pursue their worship in the United States just as are those who [...]
Robyn and Chad Smotherman – he was convicted along with Chris Rowland in a money laundering scheme – are escorted from their Warrior Drive home by attorney Will Fraley in September 2007. (TMP file photo) Rutherford County Sheriff Robert Arnold pushed back Wednesday against criticism he has received for writing a character letter on behalf [...]
Tennessee Senator Bob Corker says the best case scenario in Libya would be for rebels taking control there to handle the transition without infighting. Corker says if tribes in Libya fracture, it opens to the door to destabilization, corruption and potentially terrorism. Corker spoke at a Kiwanis Club meeting in Murfreesboro on Wednesday. Corker, who [...]
As the old cliché goes, government should be run like a business. Though that’s not always practical or even desirable, Murfreesboro City Hall has rightly tapped into that mindset in an area that all taxpayers should appreciate — good customer service. It seems a no-brainer, but in many ways, today’s fast-paced, impersonal and hyper-connected world [...]
