If you believe that your bank deposits are firmly secured by FDIC, thanks to our neglectful Congress, you may be riding on a false sense of security, according to some shocking news in the Boston Globe: The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, which insures deposits up to $250,000, tried for years...

In January during a U.S. Senate hearing on TVA's December coal ash spill in Kingston, California Democrat Barbara Boxer was leading calls for the mega-utility to come out of the disaster as a leader in green power research. At the same event Tennessee Republican Lamar Alexander looked like he was pl...

A week ago today Jason Holleman and Emily Evans made a admirable effort to amend inequities in Metro Water billing out of the Mayor's rate increases to no avail.  24 council members voted with Mayor Dean to insist that big businesses, which generate more stormwater run-off, actually pay less for th...

After all hell broke loose in East Nashville over Riverfront development, Dean administration mouthpiece, Janel Lacy issued the following statement to the mainstream media via email: The riverfront redevelopment plan was completed over two years ago. [The Mayor's MDHA appointee] is now going through...

Nashville's blogging council member, Emily Evans, attended the Riverfront community meeting in East Nashville last week and she was not pleased with idea of recreating the wheel. She builds a head of steam and gets on a roll herself: I was a bit surprised when I attended a community meeting on redev...

Your "free" market at work for you: Merrill Lynch traders lost hundreds and hundreds of millions of profits on trades at extraordinary risk. Merrill hid word of those trades from its new parent company, Bank of America, and then paid $3.6 billion in bonuses based on performance as of December 8, 200...

NewsChannel5 reporter Phil Williams exposes the artificial financial advantages Belle Meade scion and potential Bells Bend despoiler Jack May has just for owning a business and developing property with family members: [O]ur investigation discovered [the Family-Owned Non-Corporate Entities loophole] ...

President Obama has invited one of the more important lobbyists to Congress that the local health care industry has to discuss reforming America's health care system. He won't bring home any bacon for Middle Tennessee, but I bet he does so for Big Medicine. There are indications that he's going to p...

Tennessee is not joining either the new south or the 21st Century any time soon. Instead, it has a reserved a seat in a hell-bound handbasket. The latest indignity is that it seems to be "awash in jokes about Obama's race." The state already has a Republican Party that made Barack Obama's ethnicity ...

After-hours clubs are looking to loopholes to continue to bring their gangs, hookers, and disgarded used condoms to residential neighborhoods. While this story comes from the Tennessean, the local paper hasn't exactly been balanced when dealing with the subject of after-hours clubs in the past....