There appears to have been some confusion between Mayor Karl Dean and leaders of Metro Nashville Public Schools over library consolidation.

A Nashville attorney has filed a suit in Davidson County Chancery Court challenging the constitutionality of the English Only referendum and seeking to prevent a special election from being held on Jan. 22.

Thanksgiving has never been my cup of cider.

As the avenue linking the major monuments of Metro and state governments, it would be hard to equal Deaderick Street for symbolic value or stunning sightlines.

A member of La Mara Salvatrucha, or MS-13, was sentenced Wednesday to 14 years in prison and five years of supervised release for his participation in a racketeering enterprise, the U.S. Attorney’s office said in a release.

The Tennessee State Fair Board’s consultant has recommended either keeping the fairgrounds where they are and improving them or moving the event and making it a true state fair.

President-elect Barack Obama has selected Peter Orszag to serve as his budget director, according to the New York Times, eliminating one key cabinet opening for which Congressman Jim Cooper was thought to be a prime candidate.

After meeting for the better part of this year, the Downtown Quality of Life Task Force has come up with a list of goals to make Nashville’s downtown cleaner, safer and more livable — most of them aimed at helping the city’s homeless population.

Attention, out-of-work but well-connected Republican Party stalwarts: You, too, can be a statewide office holder! Don't feel like campaigning in Wartburg and Bucksnort? Well, you don't have to anymore!

An assistant law professor at Vanderbilt has written a letter to Mayor Karl Dean expressing concerns over the Metro’s new procurement nondiscrimination program, which was passed in April.

Scenarios for school district budget cuts will be discussed by the Board of Education next week.

Ground was broken Monday on an $11 million renovation at Maplewood High School. The renovation is the school’s first since the mid-1980s, and money for the project was secured in last year’s capital budget.

On the same day Centennial Park was added to the National Register of Historic Places, Mayor Karl Dean committed to restoring and revitalizing Nashville’s marquee public space.

Rezoning, the school director search and financial matters dominated concerns raised by Metro Council members Monday, when representatives of Metro Nashville Public Schools visited to answer questions.

More than 200 people gathered in a small church on Scovel Street Sunday for what organizers said was the first in a series of community meetings in opposition to a new school district rezoning plan.

It’s been 10 months since Nashville had a permanent director of schools in place.

Nasty marital breakups have been a sad fact of life for centuries, but some Nashville divorce litigants have pioneered a whole new electronic form of domestic nastiness — if the claims of their courtroom adversaries are true.

Mayor Karl Dean announced two new green initiatives Thursday when he spoke at the Second Annual Summit for Sustainable Tennessee at Lipscomb University.

Growing up in a museum isn’t easy. Oh, on the surface it seems exciting, particularly if you read that book-that-spawned-a-thousand-juvenile-fantasies, From the Mixed Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler, in which a brother and sister run away from home and hide out in New York’s Metropolitan Museum.

Tennessee Democrats had a losing record this election season in the state, but they are likely about to see a pack of federal appointments in the legal system roll their way.