NASHVILLE, TN — Mayor John Cooper announced the launch of the “Refer to Win” vaccination campaign in Nashville. The campaign aims to incentivize residents to refer their family, friends, neighbors and coworkers to get the COVID-19 vaccine shot so Nashville can protect itself against the current wave of COVID-19. Nashvillians can win one of 20 different prizes by referring friends and family to get vaccinated. The most valuable prize is a pair of Nashville Predators season tickets, valued at more than $5,000. Referral cards are available at Metro Public Health Department vaccination sites only. Vaccine recipients can write the name…
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By Vivian Jones Main Street Nashville NASHVILLE, TN — Mayor John Cooper has joined a coalition of mayors in calling on the Biden administration to include in the next economic recovery package a pathway to citizenship for undocumented immigrants with temporary conditional residency. In a letter to President Joe Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris, and House and Senate leaders this week, the group of 84 mayors from across the country requested Biden to grant a path to citizenship for “Dreamers,” individuals with temporary protected status, and all essential workers and their families. An estimated 5 million immigrants who are in…
By Denne Michele Norris Simone Biles, widely considered the greatest gymnast of all time, has made a career of mastering skills that no other woman dares to try. In fact, she’s done this five times. She will likely perform three of the four skills that are named “The Biles” at the 2020 Summer Games in Tokyo, as well as her new vault, the Yurchenko double pike, which will then become the fifth Biles. She has advanced the technical side of gymnastics in unprecedented ways, yet two of her skills are undervalued by the Code of Points. In other words, she…
By Josh Cross Orinthia Montague has been chosen by the Tennessee Board of Regents to become the fourth president of Volunteer State Community College.“As the college celebrates its 50th anniversary I am excited to join the community,” she added. “I look forward to continuing to build upon the great work already in place at Vol State as we look towards our next 50 years.” The search to find the next president of Vol State began earlier this year after Jerry Faulkner announced his plan to retire at the end of August after more than nine years at the college. An…
OSHKOSH, WI — It was hard to miss the plane that MTSU Aerospace graduate Mike Starnes brought to EAA AirVenture. That’s because Starnes, 54, a captain for United Parcel Service, brought a brand-new Boeing 747-8F to the world’s largest aviation celebration. It is more than 63 feet tall and more than 250 feet long. The long-range jet, with only about 30 flight hours on it before Starnes flew it from Louisville, Kentucky, to Oshkosh, turned a lot of heads at the Wisconsin air show. It is so new that it has yet to haul any cargo for UPS. Starnes, a…
NASHVILLE, TN — The National Museum of African American Music (NMAAM) has announced the addition of seven new board members, new leadership under Stacey Garrett Koju, a museum-affiliated State of Black Music podcast and a partnership with Blanx, an artisan footwear brand that tells a story on every shoe. As the museum rounds out its inaugural year, these updates mark the beginning of a transition from a brick-and-mortar museum to a unique storytelling institution. New Board Members Under Koju’s new leadership as board chair – and as the first Black woman to lead the museum’s board – the changes have…
NASHVILLE, TN — Nashville Electric Service (NES) has announced the appointment of Anne Davis to the Electric Power Board. A prominent Nashville-based attorney, Davis has practiced civil and criminal litigation at firms such as Bass Berry & Sims and Neal & Harwell. She has a deep passion for the environment and served as the managing attorney for the local Southern Environmental Law Center’s office. Davis served as chair for the Metro Nashville Task Force on Environmental Sustainability, served as a member of the Green Ribbon Committee and as Nashville’s first lady from 2007-2015 when her husband, Karl Dean,w as mayor.…
Nashville, TN (TN Tribune)–Davis, 43, of Franklin, Tennessee, and the former CEO of Anesthesia Services Associates, PLLC d/b/a Comprehensive Pain Specialists (“CPS”), agreed to a permanent voluntary exclusion from participation in federal procurement and non-procurement programs as part of an agreement to resolve the United States’ civil claims against him, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Mary Jane Stewart for the Middle District of Tennessee. CPS, which was based in Brentwood, Tennessee, at one point operated over 40 pain clinics and had operations in 12 states, until it shut down in 2018. On July 22, 2019, the United States filed a Consolidated…
Nashville, TN (WPLN)–Thistle Farms, a Nashville nonprofit that sells products made by survivors of sex work and human trafficking, is expanding yet again, thanks to a spike in sales during the pandemic. CEO Hal Cato said he signed a lease last week for a new production facility. At 22,000 square feet, it’s twice the size of their current one. “I thought we had our 10-year home, and we made it 4-and-a-half years,” said Cato, laughing. He’s referring to when they moved into the current production facility, in 2016, after Thistle Farms products were picked up by Whole Foods. Since then, Cato…
To put an end to continuing losses in blood, pride and treasure, Washington has finally accepted the reality of its defeat. After Vietnam, Syria and Iraq, the US seems to have lost its third major war and the longest of them all – The Afghan war. A history lesson for all imperialist nations: all empires, from Alexander the Great, the Persian and the Mongol to the British and Soviet, have suffered defeat in Afghanistan. Afghanistan is a graveyard of empires. The neo-cons and the coalition of the willing armed with the most sophisticated hi-tech weapons and the US defense budget…