Mayor pictures Nashville Bridge site as a gateway to city By MICHAEL CASS • Staff Writer • October 6, 2008 After sitting empty for years, a riverfront building where workers once forged bridges, barges and Navy minesweepers...
By MICHAEL CASS • Staff Writer • October 3, 2008 The former executive director of the Metro Arts Commission does not have a right to get her job back, a Davidson County judge ruled today. Chancellor Carol McCoy denied Norree...
By MICHAEL CASS • Staff Writer • October 3, 2008 Bill Phillips has been around a big political event or two. Phillips, 64, managed the Republican National Convention in New Orleans in 1988. Last month, the former Republican...
As the U.S. Senate considered a package to put the economy on more stable ground, two House members who represent Nashville and some of its neighboring communities sat down Wednesday with The Tennessean to discuss their stands...
By Michael Cass, THE TENNESSEAN Barack Obama's presidential campaign wasn't done with Natasha Blackshear after she gave the Illinois senator $1,300 in May. "I think I received an e-mail every day from the Obama campaign,"...
By MICHAEL CASS • Staff Writer • September 26, 2008 Nashville Mayor Karl Dean has decided to wait to file his budget for new construction and renovation projects until the nation's bond markets stabilize, his top finance...
By MICHAEL CASS • Staff Writer • September 23, 2008 The Metro Arts Commission fired its executive director this afternoon. Norree Boyd was dismissed after more than four years on the job. Arts Commission members gave no...
By MICHAEL CASS • Staff Writer • September 23, 2008 Hundreds of Nashville government, business and religious leaders joined forces Monday to start tackling one of the city's most entrenched problems: poverty. "Going it...
By MICHAEL CASS • Staff Writer • September 19, 2008 Gov. Phil Bredesen is getting squarely behind the Democratic Party’s controversial nominee for a state Senate seat, with plans to host a $500-a-person fund raiser later...
TSU gave honorary degrees Thursday to 14 Freedom Riders, former students who put their lives on the line in 1961 to protest racial segregation and paid the price when they were thrown in jail and expelled from school....