BY ELIZABETH AYOOLA American spaceflight company Virgin Galactic is on a record-setting streak. The company launched its “Galactic 02” flight on Aug. 10 and sent six people to suborbital space and back. They set a couple of records in this one trip including having the most women on a single space flight, the first mother-daughter duo, and the first women from a Caribbean nation to reach space. Additionally, the daughter was the youngest space flyer in history. In terms of the mother and daughter, they got on the flight thanks to good luck. Keisha Schahaff, who was born and raised in…
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(COLUMBIA, TN) August 23, 2023 – Watershed Public Theatre announced that the first production of their 2023-24 season is the musical Anastasia, created by Lynn Ahrens, Stephen Flaherty and Terrence McNally. Six performances will run September 15-24, 2023, at Columbia State’s Cherry Theater. The stage musical is inspired by the 1997 animated movie of the same name and the legend of the Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia, who was rumored to have disappeared during the fall of the Russian Imperial Romanov family. The story follows amnesiac orphan Anya who is looking for answers about her past, and the con…
NASHVILLE, TN — Show Me Victories, a full-service political consulting company based in St. Louis, MO, conducted a survey of 430 registered voters in Davidson County who are likely to vote in the September 14 Metro Nashville Mayoral runoff election. The results showed Freddie O’Connell with support of 58 percent of Nashville voters and Alice Rolli with 40 percent, with 2 percent undecided. Of the 2 percent of undecided voters, 91 percent of them are leaning toward voting for O’Connell. “O’Connell is the clear front runner in the race for Nashville Mayor,” stated Show Me Victories Senior Political Strategist, Braxton Payne.…
NASHVILLE, TN — This week history was made as Metropolitan Sports Authority Chair Cathy Bender signed off on one of the largest bond deals ever issued by the city of Nashville. The Sports Authority approved the issuance of $760 million in revenue bonds to offset contributions by the NFL, the TN Titans, and the state of Tennessee toward funding expenses of the new Titans stadium. Chairwoman Bender was also a signer on the initial stadium bond deal while serving as secretary of the authority. As the most tenured member of the authority, she is the first black woman…
NASHVILLE, TN — California Governor Gavin Newsom will be the keynote speaker at the Tennessee Democratic Party’s annual fundraiser, the Three Star Dinner. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis was the headliner at the Republican Party’s annual Statesmen’s Dinner. Here’s the release from the Tennessee Democrats: We are excited to announce that California Governor, Gavin Newsom, will deliver the keynote speech at the Tennessee Democratic Party’s annual Three Star Dinner. The dinner is scheduled for 6:00pm on Saturday, August 26, 2023 at the Music City Center in Downtown Nashville. The theme of this year’s dinner is Lift Your Voice. We will recognize…
NASHVILLE, TN — Metro Councilmember Freddie O’Connell highlighted his vote against the $2.1 billion Titans stadium deal as a central selling point of his campaign, but his time on the council paints a more complex picture of a progressive who regularly supported economic development. Why it matters: O’Connell’s track record is facing heightened scrutiny as he hurtles toward a runoff against former Republican political strategist and businessperson Alice Rolli. Zoom in: During his first seven years on the Metro Council, O’Connell supported every significant economic development deal that came up for a vote. O’Connell backed 11 economic development proposals, including…
NASHVILLE, TN — Ahead of the Special Election in House District 51 that’s scheduled for Thursday, September 14th, the Tennessee AFL-CIO Labor Council announces its endorsement of Aftyn Behn. This decision was based on a recommendation from the Central Labor Council of Nashville & Middle Tennessee and finalized after a vote by the state federation’s Executive Board. “It’s no secret that the Tennessee General Assembly is sorely lacking in the number of voices that will stand up for working families or speak out against the corporate greed that runs rampant through the legislature,” said TN AFL-CIO President Billy Dycus. “Fortunately,…
By Dale Mitchell and Rick Neal of Pinnacle Financial Partners The affordable housing gap is built from complex historical and systemic factors, including problems rooted in decades old social and economic issues. The issue isn’t simple, and neither is its solution. Advocating for more housing is the right thing to do. Understanding and supporting the mechanisms required to build it are just as important. Multifamily developments take tens of millions of dollars to build, and affordable price points make them impossible to finance without help. The capital it takes to build or renovate affordable single-family homes also make traditional funding…
Physicians today, citing the previous failure of the TN General Assembly to act on a bare minimum order of protection in the aftermath of the Covenant School tragedy, call on elected leaders to to enact laws to protect children, families and communities. deliver petitions to legislator’s offices. NASHVILLE, TN — On the opening day of Governor Lee’s Special Session on Public Safety, physicians gathered at the Cordell Hull State Office Building to walk the halls of legislative offices and hand deliver copies of a petition, signed by over 1,100 physician parents, calling on elected officials to protect the health and…
On Monday, August 21, the August Special Session of the 113th Tennessee General Assembly began. There have been 104 bills filed, with many that have significant implications for education. One alarming bill, sponsored by Representative Ryan Williams (R-Cookeville) and Senator Paul Bailey (R-Sparta), is HB7086/SB7019. This bill would allow a person employed by a local education agency (LEA) as a faculty or staff member at a school within the LEA to possess and carry a concealed handgun on the grounds of their school at which the person is assigned. Research shows that increased access to guns does not make schools safer or decrease the…