The city of 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 the American warehouse and [...]
Residents throughout Davidson and Rutherford counties – and everywhere in between – are still buying homes, newly released data shows. There were 2,047 home closings reported for the month of August, according to figures provided by the Greater Nashville Association of Realtors. This figure represents a 28.4 percent increase from the 1,594 closings reported for [...]
As our nation marks the 10th anniversary of the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, we should all reflect on how those events still impact our nation today. With 10 years of evidence, we have to ask if the terrorists succeeded in their stated desire to undermine American security. The attacks claimed [...]
<!–Saxotech Paragraph Count: 3–> MURFREESBORO — County leaders hope to hire an information technology project manager to update court computer software that dates back to 1989. “We’re losing efficiencies,” Circuit Court Clerk Laura Bohling told members of the Rutherford County Commission’s Budget, Finance Investment Committee Thursday night. She wants a project manager to work with [...]
<!–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 [...]
