NASHVILLE, TN — The 2018 Consortium of Doctors’ Ltd. Annual Conference will take place Thursday, July 26 through Sunday, July 29 in Nashville. The organization is comprised of professional women, who hold terminal degrees and the mission of COD is to promote community empowerment. The annual conference is held in different cities each year and was last held in Nashville in 2015. COD Director, Dr. Sylvia Carey-Butler said, “The Host Committee and Leadership Team have worked tirelessly to present an outstanding event. In keeping with the theme, “Encouraging our Youth to Embrace Life,” we will focus on some of the…
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By Peter White NASHVILLE, TN — Local pastors and residents met in the sanctuary of the Jefferson St. Missionary Baptist Church last week. They each spoke briefly and then signed a letter to Tennessee Attorney General Herbert H. Slatery III asking him to withdraw from a class action lawsuit that strikes at the heart of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and could kill it entirely. “It is critical that we look at the fundamental structural problems we face in healthcare directly impacting our businesses, our economy, our families,” said Brittney Campagna. Her father suffered a stroke and his medical bills…
Nashville, Tenn. – On July 28, 2017 sisters Kathy Leslie and Sandra Austin followed their dream of opening a bakery and cafe in their neighborhood of East Nashville. The two, lovingly known as Shugga Kat and Shugga San, were inspired by their mother’s love of cooking both delicious meals and deserts, the location has been preparing enjoyable food for the past year. Located right in the middle of the Dickerson Pike Corridor, the café is quickly becoming an anchor in the up and coming neighborhood while staying true to the area’s roots. Their motto is ‘Desert First Please’ and for…
NAIROBI -— (Prensa Latina) Former US President Barack Obama met with Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta after arriving to the country where his father was born to visit his family, local media reported. The stay here of the ex-president, who also met with opposition leader Raila Odinga and other personalities, is also part of a tour that includes South Africa, where he will attend the tribute for the anniversary of the birth of the anti-racist leader Nelson Mandela, added the sources. Obama, whose visit to Kenya is the first since the end of his last term in 2017, and the second…
WASHINGTON, DC — Testifying to the U.S. International Trade Commission this morning, U.S. Rep. Jim Cooper (TN-05) denounced the Commerce Department’s tariff on a chief component of newsprint, citing the immense financial burden for local and national media organizations that rely on the printed page. “The damage this tariff will do to the newspaper and printing industries will be catastrophic,” Rep. Cooper said in remarks submitted for the record. “Less news will lead to an increasingly distant and ill-informed American citizen.” Newsprint is the paper on which newspapers and retail inserts are printed, and uncoated groundwood paper is a key…
NASHVILLE, TN — United States Senator Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) told the nation’s county leaders that a recent Supreme Court decision allowing states to collect state and local sales taxes from out-of-state sellers will be “a big boost for Main Street businesses and local governments.” “Main Streets across America are under pressure. One reason is that the federal government has prevented state and local governments from collecting sales and use taxes from out of state sellers in the same way they collect taxes from in-state sellers. The federal government had no business forcing states to prefer out of state businesses over Main…
NASHVILLE, TN — When contrasting track records of Brenda Gilmore and Harold Love a clear difference emerges between an ineffective and effective legislator. While both sponsored about the same amount of legislation Love was far more successful than Gilmore in getting measures approved and made into laws. Gilmore had 28 bills sponsored. 11 were withdrawn completely. Others were handed off to additional committees or subcommittees, but only one, a solid waste disposal bill, ever became finished and passed legislation. That became Pub. Ch. 335. Over 40 percent of her sponsored bills never went anywhere. Representative Harold Love had 30 bills…
NASHVILLE, TN — Nashville MTA is now WeGo Public Transit, committed to connecting people to their lives and their communities. The new image is part of a process that started with the adoption of the nMotion plan in 2016, and included extensive interviews and focus group testing of current riders, prospective riders, residents, business, and community leaders in Nashville, all of whom are affected by the ever-growing mobility concerns in a rapidly growing city. It is just one part of our continuing efforts to improve public transit in Nashville as laid out in the nMotion plan, which includes a number…
NASHVILLE, TN — Nashville-based financial services company Advance Financial and its Chief Executive and Experience Officer, Tina Hodges, were recently named the winners of four national awards: a Gold Pillar Award for Best Employer Achievement of the Year, a Silver Globee Award for Jobs Growth of the Year, a Gold CEO World Award for CEO of the Year and a Gold Women World Award for Female Executive of the Year. “We are constantly striving to improve and grow as a company, and it is wonderful to see our team’s hard work recognized with these national awards,” said Hodges. “And it…
By Carjamin Scott NASHVILLE, TN — Dr. Shanna L. Jackson, the first black female president of Nashville State Community College, was the keynote speaker at the inaugural Black Women’s Empowerment Brunch hosted by the Equity Alliance. Dr. Jackson is the product of two college-educated parents. Her mother instilled the importance of believing in God, and her father was the first in his family to graduate from college. Dr. Jackson mentioned that her father’s education was his gateway out of poverty. Her parents encouraged her to set big goals and never let gender or skin color stop her from reaching her…