By April Hefner It’s time. With a short and simple phrase, Belmont University President Dr. Bob Fisher announced yesterday to the Board of Trustees his intent to retire in May 2021 following more than two decades of service to the Nashville institution. A visionary and innovator in higher education, Fisher’s tenure is marked by Belmont’s phenomenal growth, dramatic rise in national prominence, dedication to student success and an extraordinary commitment to what he calls “the greatest privilege in life, serving someone else.” “In my inauguration speech in 2000, I remarked that Belmont was a really good university, but then went…
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The Supreme Court seemed likely Tuesday to leave in place the bulk of the Affordable Care Act, with Chief Justice John Roberts and Associate Justice Brett Kavanaugh signaling that they weren’t prepared to dump ObamaCare in its entirety during oral arguments about the landmark health care law. A number of Republican-headed states, led by Texas and the Trump administration, are arguing that Congress’ elimination of the penalty for not having health insurance in 2017 means the entire law is unconstitutional. “I tend to agree with you this a very straightforward case for severability under our precedents, meaning that we would…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. – Nashville State Community College was recently ranked as having the 13th best Associate Degree Nursing Program in the Southeastern United States. NursingProcess.org, an independent group of passionate educators and healthcare professionals who are committed to providing expert-driven information that makes it simple for prospective nursing students to make informed decisions, looked at 731 nursing programs in the region. “Due to top-notch faculty with years of hands-on experience in hospitals, and the aptitude and determination of our students to learn, succeed, and become vital leaders in their organizations, we have built a highly successful program,” said Cindy Waller, Ph.D., MSN, RN, Dean of Nashville State’s…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. – Nashville Tree Foundation has been awarded a $50,000 gift from Bank of America, in partnership with the Arbor Day Foundation, to increase tree planting efforts in North Nashville. This gift will allow Nashville Tree Foundation to plant 225 trees, and distribute an additional 100, across Nashville’s 37208-zip neighborhood. Planting day kicked off on Saturday, October 17, “This is incredible news for Nashville Tree Foundation, as well as for the city of Nashville,” said Andrew Bell, Executive Director of Nashville Tree Foundation. “Bank of America’s generous gift will drastically increase the canopy cover of Nashville’s 37208-zip neighborhood and…
Atlanta–Tennesseans from Georgia please remember these deadlines for the Georgia run-off. Voters must request an absentee ballot by November 18. The voter registration deadline is December 7, and early voting begins on December 14. So while the election is not until January, the campaign for Democrat Jon Ossoff is urging you to make call to Atlanta citizens living in Nashville and the state of Tennessee. Remember Voters must request an absentee ballot by November 18.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Democrat Joe Biden defeated President Donald Trump to become the 46th president of the United States on Saturday, positioning himself to lead a nation gripped by the historic pandemic and a confluence of economic and social turmoil. His victory came after more than three days of uncertainty as election officials sorted through a surge of mail-in votes that delayed the processing of some ballots. Biden crossed 270 Electoral College votes with a win in Pennsylvania. Biden, 77, staked his candidacy less on any distinctive political ideology than on galvanizing a broad coalition of voters around the notion…
By Kathleen Ronayne Kamala Harris made history Saturday as the first Black woman elected as vice president of the United States, shattering barriers that have kept men — almost all of them white — entrenched at the highest levels of American politics for more than two centuries. The 56-year-old California senator, also the first person of South Asian descent elected to the vice presidency, represents the multiculturalism that defines America but is largely absent from Washington’s power centers. Her Black identity has allowed her to speak in personal terms in a year of reckoning over police brutality and systemic racism.…
NASHVILLE, TN – Blacks, Latinos, and Asians overwhelmingly voted for the Biden-Harris ticket and sent Donald Trump an eviction notice last week. He’s got two months to vacate the White House. It was a fitting end to the regime of an unpleasant and jingoistic loudmouth who divided the electorate and diminished U. S. standing in the world more than any previous President. By the slimmest of margins, voters in Pennsylvania, Nevada, Arizona, Georgia, Wisconsin, and Michigan picked Biden over Trump. Trump refused to admit defeat in those battleground states and vowed to take court action “to ensure election laws are…