By Anita Wadhwani, Tennessean Article courtesy of The Tennessean NASHVILLE, TN An overwhelming majority of Nashville residents support increased funding for Nashville General Hospital, the struggling safety net facility for the poor and uninsured that relies on taxpayer subsidies to stay afloat, according to a new Vanderbilt University poll. The poll, released Sunday and conducted Feb. 8-19, found 62 percent of Nashville residents thought the city should increase funding for the hospital; 31 percent said hospital funding should remain the same; and 6 percent supported a funding decrease. Among African-American residents, support for increased public funding for the city-owned…
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Referendum on May 1 ballot; Early voting begins April 11 NASHVILLE, TN — It’s no secret that the people of North Nashville suffered greatly, and continue to do so in large part today, by the federal government’s decision to build I-40 right through the heart of the community. This transit plan will better connect this neighborhood and its businesses to the rest of the city. The current transit plan places great importance on creating equity in our city. You can’t have an affordable city without affordable housing and transportation, and Let’s Move Nashville does both. One of the first benefits…
By Peter White and Clint Confehr NASHVILLE, TN — Megan Barry was Nashville’s first female mayor and her political star seemed destined to keep on rising. But she crashed to earth in the wake of an extramarital affair with her police bodyguard. Barry resigned Tuesday and Vice Mayor David Briley was sworn in as her successor. “While my time as your mayor concludes today, my unwavering love and sincere affection for this wonderful city and its great people shall never come to an end,” Barry told reporters. Barry thanked the “thousands” of people who had reached out to her, written…
NASHVILLE, TN — The National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA) recently announced that Nashville General Hospital has received recognition as a Level 3 Patient-Centered Medical Home (PCMH) from the National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA). The NCQA Patient-Centered Medical Home is a model of primary care that combines teamwork and information technology to improve care, improve patients’ experience of care and reduce costs. Medical homes foster ongoing partnerships between patients and their personal clinicians, instead of approaching care as the sum of episodic office visits. Each patient’s care is overseen by clinician-led care teams that coordinate treatment across the health…
NASHVILLE, TN — On Thursday, March 8th at 6:30 p.m. the community at large will have an opportunity to obtain information as NOAH (Nashville Organized for Action and Hope) Affordable Housing Task Force hosts, “Transit & Affordable Housing: Voting Your Priorities.” at Lee Chapel AME Church, 1200 Dr. D.B. Todd Jr. Blvd. The purpose of the panel discussion and action plan on March 8th is to provide good information on the transit plan and referendum on May 1st, what can be done about gentrification and displacement, emphasize the need for affordable housing with or without transit and to show why…
By Peter White NASHVILLE, TN — Students from Pearl Cohn Magnet High School and undergrads from TSU and Vanderbilt argued two questions at Gordon Memorial United Methodist Church last Saturday. The Big Debate was sponsored by the Reclamation Center. NewsChannel5’s Vicki Yates moderated. For an hour and a half four judges listened to argument and counterargument, rebuttals, and summations. Radio personality AG Granderson emceed the event and urged participants to keep an open mind. “Even though you have such strong beliefs you still may hear something that makes you say ‘You know what? That’s right. That does makes sense’,” said…
By Kay Bowers NASHVILLE, TN — Often using these two phrases together can be a lightning rod creating negative images in people’s minds that limits their thinking and interest in engaging meaningful conversation affordable housing and its impact. Affordable housing is too important to thousands of Nashvillians for us to accept narrow mindedness when it comes to tackling the housing challenges we face. When individuals and families have to use more than 30% of their income to cover housing costs which includes utilities they are considered cost burdened and their housing is unaffordable. Today in Nashville 49% of our renters…
By Vera Warrick NASHVILLE, TN — As the debate on the Barry administration’s Transit Tax Referendum begins to heat up, the more informed voters are, the better we can make decisions for ourselves, and it requires delving into the actual plan that is the source of the referendum Nashville will vote on May 1st. As is the case with close elections, the African-American Community is being targeted to push through a plan that will send between 5.4 billion and 9 billion dollars primarily downtown. The debate is heating up. On a televised Town Hall debate on WKRN on February 15th …
NASHVILLE, TN — State Representative Johnnie Turner of Memphis today announced that she will not run for re-election when her current term ends later this year. Turner has been a member of the State Legislature since January 2010 when she succeeded her late husband, Representative Larry Turner. “I still enjoy doing this,” Rep. Turner said. “But it’s time. I can walk out now and feel good about what I’ve accomplished, particularly the legislative packet that we filed this year that grew out of the Unsolved Civil Rights Cold Case special Joint Committee.” Rep. Turner sponsored legislation in 2017 that created…
By Amiyah King, Howard University News Service WASHINGTON—Tens of thousands of high school students across America were marked with an unexcused absence Wednesday, but everyone knew where they were. In the Washington area, high school students from DC. Public Schools and from public schools in Maryland marched to the Capitol and then to the White House to demand Congress and the president institute gun control legislation that will keep them safe. The march was organized by students from Richard Montgomery High School in Rockville, Md., and Bethesda-Chevy Chase in Montgomery County, Md., in response to the recent shooting in Parkland, Fla.…