“There are no easy answers for these communities,” said Bill Fox, executive director of the University of Tennessee Center for Business and Economic Research. “Those jobs are gone, and small towns have to realize that the future is not in manufacturing employment.”
As with many former OshKosh employees, the [...]
Students at Tennessee’s public colleges and universities could be facing a 5 percent tuition increase.
Tennessee Higher Education Commission executive director Richard Rhoda told Gov. Phil Bredesen at budget hearings Thursday that the tuition recommendation has been passed along to the administrators of the University of Tennessee system [...]
A councilwoman suggests maybe our Parks director isn’t so bad:
Councilwoman Vivian Wilhoite said she felt a sense of responsibility from the parks department, unlike she had from Phil Ryan, executive director of the Metro Development and Housing Agency, when he recently appeared before the Council to explain how a [...]
