NASHVILLE, TN — Michelle Robertson, a Texas-based executive who has been with parent organization Ascension Health for 27 years, will begin her employment on Oct. 16 at Saint Thomas, responsible for nine hospitals and a network of ancillary ventures and employ more than 8,000. She replaces previously former LifePoint Health Paul Kleckner, who joined Saint Thomas 2016, and will now work alongside Chief Clinical Officer Greg James in a dyad structure. She is also COO of Ascension’s Texas Ministry and has been has been CEO of Ascension’s Seton Family of Hospitals for nearly three years and, before that, held other…
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Brian Handwerk for National Geographic News Maher Hathout, author of Jihad vs. Terrorism, believed there was a twofold need to set the record straight about jihad. “Number one was the discovery that everyone is defining us except us, everyone is explaining jihad except for Muslims,” he said. “Second, I noticed that some Muslims needed to brush up, to review the issue on their own for clarity and understanding of their own religion. This is why I made the book very textual. I tried to use verses from the Koran, from the Prophet… It includes personal opinion of course, but the…
NASHVILLE, TN (TSU News Service) — A top Army officer visiting Tennessee State University talked to students and faculty recently about civilian research opportunities in the military. Maj. Gen. Cedric T. Wins oversees the U.S. Army’s Research, Development and Engineering Command (RDECOM). With more than 14,000 employees, RDECOM performs nearly all of the Army’s basic and applied research and technology development. Of RDECOM’s employees, 13,800 are civilians, of which 11,000 are scientists and engineers. “It’s very common that many of the Fortune 100 companies are visiting our campus doing recruiting,” said Dr. S. Keith Hargrove, dean of TSU’s College of…
NASHVILLE, TN — District Attorney Glenn Funk has announced the appointments of three new attorneys to his staff. These most recent additions further increase the diversity in the Office of the District Attorney since Funk’s election in 2014. Ronald Dowdy was sworn in on August 17, 2017 as Assistant District Attorney in General Sessions Court. Dowdy previously served as an Assistant State Attorney in the Miami-Dade State Attorney’s Office. While there, Dowdy worked in the Public Corruption Division, Human Trafficking Task Force, and Felony Division. A Nashville native, ADA Dowdy is a graduate Hume-Fogg High School. He went on to…
Exhaustion. Those that survived Hurricane Harvey remain exhausted. Those fleeing from Hurricane Irma are exhausted. The news professionals and the state authorities are exhausted. Those nonprofits and others trying to help are exhausted. And you, our donors and prospective donors are exhausted. … But like the woman we spoke to the other day who was still in a Harvey shelter and was glued to the television praying Irma wasn’t heading their way, too, we have to keep putting one foot in front of the other. We have to keep going. So on the heels of our Hurricane Harvey Relief Fund,…
Tourism Cares and the Caribbean Hotel and Tourism Association partner to maximize travel industry support to restore destinations, tourism nonprofits and jobs CORAL GABLES, Florida (September 12, 2017) – The travel and tourism industry has launched the Caribbean Hurricane Tourism Recovery Fund, uniting the Caribbean Hotel and Tourism Industry with the noted Tourism Cares organization, which has helped to lead private sector efforts globally following crisis. The fund will allow tourism industry stakeholders and friends of the region throughout the Caribbean and the world to pool their resources in support of vulnerable, devastated areas of the northern Caribbean that welcome…
Christoph Communications owner Renuka Christoph partnered with the Nashville Convention Visitors Corporation to launch Global Beats. The initiative promotes ethnic dining within Nashville and offers visitors the opportunity to explore the diversity within the city. “Nashville is rich in diversity and offers an extensive selection of ethnic dining which showcases the city’s multiculturalism,” states Christoph. “Cuisine serves a great connector of diverse people groups.” Visit https://www.visitmusiccity.com/visitors/globalbeats to learn more about Music City’s ethnic dining. Click here for video coverage of Kurdish and Puerto Rican dining. Renuka Christoph oversees communications for Vanderbilt University’s Office for Equity, Diversity and Inclusion.
NASHVILLE, TN — MOGULS, Men Obtaining Goals Under Leadership Strategies, located on Buchannan Street, was the site for the Business Community Connect with Howard Jones, candidate for Tennessee State Senate, District 19. Held on the storm-riddled night of Thursday, August 31, individuals came to hear and be heard on the need for economic growth and how it is rooted in education. MOGULS proprietor Andre Southall developed this high-quality creative style barber shop so that customers can relax, hold meaningful discussions, and learn from each other in a comfortable and impressive environment. With regard to Howard Jones, he said, “It is important…
NASHVILLE, TN — The Trump Administration is building a wall. This wall, however, is to block information about the rights of Tennesseans to affordable health care coverage in the Affordable Care Act (ACA) Marketplace. The Administration announced a 90 percent cut in advertising promoting ACA enrollment and then followed with an approximately 40% rollback of the funds provided each year to Navigators, assisters who play a critical role in helping consumers enroll in health care coverage. They gave no budgetary rationale for these unexpected cuts. They waited to make them until the very last minute, maximizing the confusion and disruption…