Michael Ballou couldn’t understand all the fuss. All he did was assign his political science students at Santa Rosa Junior College to write an e-mail and at the bottom include the words: “Kill the president, kill the president.”
One of the professor’s students sent his e-mail to the office of Napa Valley’s Rep. Mike Thompson (D-Calif.), [...]

A little more than two months after completing the best season in school history, the Centennial High School baseball team is hunting for a new head coach.
Former head coach Kevin Whittington resigned from his post after leading the Cougars to a 23-8 record in 2003 and a first-ever appearance in the regional and sectional tournaments.
“The [...]

Ardent Health Services has signed on to be the first major tenant in the former Service Merchandise headquarters.
Ardent, which will remain headquartered in the Burton Hills office park, is moving its information services department into the Brentwood office building. According to Whit McCrary IV of Colliers Turley Martin Tucker, Ardent has signed a long-term lease [...]

We are heartened to see the emerging relationship between Fisk and Vanderbilt universities.
The latest venture between the two is a bachelor’s degree program in nursing for Fisk. The way it will work is that students in the program will spend the first five semesters at Fisk in a liberal arts program. Then they’ll spend three [...]

Nashville International Airport is under attack by officials with the Metropolitan Knoxville Airport Authority, who claim the Nashville airport is trying to lure customers to Music City through an unfair advertising campaign.
As a result of Nashville’s advertising campaign, the Metropolitan Knoxville Airport Authority voted to spend $104,000 to launch a campaign to urge people to [...]

he Nashville Sounds took the “mental” out of fundamentals.
The basics of the game, which had served them so well in the first two weeks of the season, failed them Tuesday afternoon in a 5-3 loss to the Omaha Royals. It was the third straight loss for the Sounds, who dropped their first series of the [...]

Perhaps the Colorado Springs Sky Sox are fortunate that it takes Nashville Sounds starter Dave Williams about an inning to get comfortable on the mound.
That’s because, after allowing a solo home run to Garrett Atkins in the first, Williams was virtually flawless over the next five innings in pitching the Sounds to a 3-1 victory [...]