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February 25, 2010 | GOVERNMENT & POLITICS
Christian Grantham
February 25, 2009
Gerald Coggin, a prominent Tennessee lobbyist for Murfreesboro-based National Health Care, has been arrested and charged with patronizing prostitution.
The mug shot for Coggin, 58, is displayed with several others on Metro Police's website. Coggin was charged on February 18, 2010.
National Health Care is one of Murfreesboro's largest employers and runs several nursing homes across the state of Tennessee.
Last Sunday,... May 27, 2009 |
Mailbox Blues sweeps the state
By Henry Nichols - Special to Nashville247.tv/
Neighborhood mailboxes are going the way of the buffalo, the glass milk bottle and the phone booth. They’re slowly vanishing.
Without any fanfare, the U.S. Postal Service has removed 46 of Nashville’s blue mailboxes in the past year. There are 239 left in the city, and fewer than 3,500 in the entire state.
The move appears be a growing... May 3, 2010 | NEIGHBORHOOD NEWS
We have not yet begun to assess the full scope of the damage from this weekend's flood, but during its height, David Ewing who runs Facebook's The Nashville I wish I knew published this:
The Nashville Flood of 1926
The first weekend in May, 2010, Nashville faced rain and flooding like we have not seen since the famous "1926 Christmas Day Nashville Flood."
We at The Nashville I Wish I Knew bring you rare photos few... April 26, 2009 | CRIME & COURTS
Forbes magazine is dissing Nashville again. The magazine that called us the fattest city in America is now calling us one of the most dangerous. Nashville is number 9 on the Forbes list of most dangerous cities in America. We find this hard to believe in a place where many people still don't lock their doors. But maybe it's time to wake up and pay attention.
Forbes looked at FBI statistics for 2007 in the metropolitan area that... March 1, 2010 | TOP STORIES
by Matthew Hurtt
March 1, 2010
Some Nashville lawmakers seek to circumvent Tennessee Department of Transportation "principle and precedent" by hiding a special provision for one Murfreesboro businessman in what legislators call a "caption bill." Knoxville News Sentinel's Nashville Bureau Chief Tom Humphrey investigated the nature of "caption" legislation last May:
Late in most every session of the Tennessee General Assembly, fresh... July 31, 2010 | NEIGHBORHOOD NEWS
World Breastfeeding Week is August 1-7, 2010
Cook Islands celebrates self-government in free association with New Zealand 1965
Lydia
Presented by Exit/In at Exit/In
Lydia travels to Nashville to say good-bye, and with new music set to come out this summer, you don't want to miss your last chance to see them.
The East Nashville Farmers Market Open on Wednesdays from 3:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m., we will feature over 15 local farms & vendors... May 25, 2009 | SPORTS
Lane Kiffin and his Tennessee staff came up just short this week in their recruiting pitch to Miami (FL) transfer Robert Marve, who chose a scholarship offer from Purdue over walking on this year in Knoxville. That said, it wouldn't seem to be that big of a whiff for the Vols. Tennessee and Vanderbilt are two of the top teams slugging it out for a top 2010 quarterback prospect, and if nothing else has been proven during his time in the Big Orange, it's that Kiffin knows how ruffle... September 4, 2009 | SPORTS
Someone dust Jay Cutler's shoulders off. After playing great his first preseason in Chicago, the former Vanderbilt star made his modeling debut in Chicago's (allegedly) chic Michigan Avenue Magazine, and has drawn all sorts of new media attention (as if he needed more) just in time for his regular season debut as the most heralded quarterback in Bears history since the retirement of Sid Luckman (though fellow Vanderbilt alum Bill Wade did lead da Bears to an NFL title in 1963). Meanwhile,... April 26, 2009 | TOP STORIES
The family of a runner who died at Saturday's Country Music Marathon is asking for privacy, and has not released his name. The 26 year old man collapsed and died at LP Field, right after crossing the half marathon finish line. A medical team nearby tried to revive him but could not. Doctors who examined the man have not said what caused his death, or whether the high temperatures played a role. But a spokesman... July 6, 2009 | TOP STORIES
Metro police have a long list of people to question as they investigate the murder of Steve McNair and his 20 year old friend Sahel Kazemi. Detectives are talking to friends of both to see if they were squabbling about anything.
They hope to question Keith Norfleet, Kazemi’s former boyfriend, who knew she was dating McNair, and hoped to get back together with her.
They're talking to witnesses at two bars where McNair was spotted Saturday night to learn who was with him. They did... February 12, 2009 | GOVERNMENT & POLITICS
Gail Kerr, Tennessean columnist, is usually a must read and today is no exception. She has a great story about a Metro Board that has been all but invisible since its creation in 1959. Overseen by a mysterious woman who has rarely if ever attended a board meeting in the past two years. A fascinating read in today's Tennessean. Makes you wonder what other boards are lurking out there with "Lost" like characters running them. Yikes! May 18, 2010 | GOVERNMENT & POLITICS
To begin, this story references a website that is NSFW. But it's snark, so what do you expect?
There are folks in this world would not even be happy if Al, Tipper, all their children and all their friends and everyone who ever voted for the Former Vice President were reduced to digging grubs with their bare hands for food, and those folks certainly won't won't be pleased to learn that the Gores just closed on a nearly $9 million dollar home in Montecity, California.
You... April 11, 2009 | GOVERNMENT & POLITICS
The campaign to make English the official language of Nashville was financed by an organization in Virginia that's linked to hate groups. Nashville English First took $14,000 from ProEnglish out of Arlington, VA, a suburb of Washington, DC. The Southern Poverty Law Center is watching ProEnglish and his donor groups.
read more in TheTennessean
May 17, 2010 | ODDS & ENDS
Partial list from the AP via Vindy.com LINK
On this date in:
1510: Early Renaissance painter Sandro Botticelli dies in obscurity in Florence, Italy; he was probably in his mid 60s. (More than three centuries would pass before the art world rediscovered Botticelli and his works, such as “The Birth of Venus” and “Primavera.”)
In 1792, the New York Stock Exchange had its origins as a group of brokers met under a tree on Wall Street.
In 1849, fire... April 26, 2009 | HEALTH
The federal government declared a public health emergency Sunday and confirmed 20 cases of Swine flu in 5 states: eight cases in New York City, one case in Ohio, two in Kansas, two in Texas, and seven in California. In Mexico police are handing out masks, and the flu is spreading. 81 people are dead and 1,300 people are sick. There are also cases in Canada, Spain and New Zealand.
Top health officials briefed reporters at the... June 25, 2010 | ODDS & ENDS
[This is a highly-slanted, unbalanced version of the full AP list, which can be found at the Korea Times, and they'd be so proud if you'd visit!]
Highlights in history on this date:
1945 - Charter establishing United Nations is signed in San Francisco, California, by 50 nations.
1948 - The Berlin airlift begins after the Soviets blockade West Berlin. The lift feeds two million Berliners for eleven months. Read about Gail Halvorsen, AKA The Candy Bomber at the... |
