Posts tagged "Tennessee"

Johnson City ranks 82 & Kingsport 83 on May report put out by the National Asscoation of Home Builders listing Improving Housing markets in the nation.

A television music and travel series highlighting Tennessee is set for international broadcast beginning Friday.

“Music Voyager — Tennessee” takes viewers along Interstate 40, dubbed “the music highway,” from Bristol to Memphis. It is a four-part series representing the music of East, Middle and West Tennessee, and Nashville’s most prolific songwriters.

It will air on the BBC and elsewhere overseas. In this country, it is to air on Public Broadcasting Service stations beginning in April.
The series will also air on in-flight television programing for 13 airlines and be available in-room at several luxury and resort hotels throughout the world, according to the Tennessee Department of Tourism Development.

Kingsport ranks 75th in a list of housing markets showing growth, according to a survey released today by the National Association of Home Builders.

The five largest banks in the U.S. (Bank of America, Wells Fargo, Citigroup, JPMorgan Chase, and Ally Financial ) agreed to a $26 billion settlement for the roles they played in the mortgage meltdown. More than 2 million Americans could reap financial benefits from the settlement, the largest of its kind in history and the biggest civil-action suit ever against the housing industry. All 50 state attorneys general started working on the deal in late 2010 amid outrage over the corrupt mortgages. Though billions are laid out in the agreement, the money will likely help only a relatively small portion of borrowers facing foreclosure, depending on how effectively Washington manages the deal.

Some $17 billion of that would go toward writing down mortgage principal for an estimated 850,000 troubled borrowers, $3 billion could go toward restitution payments of $1,500 each to borrowers who lost their homes to foreclosure, and the rest could go to state funds for foreclosure relief

According to sources, Virginia & Tennessee are among those states signing onto the deal. 

Virginia is doing much better than Tennessee (& most of the Nation) in Science standards

That’s the conclusion from a recent report “The State of State Science Standards 2012”. The  report published by the Thomas B. Fordham Institute, surveys and evaluates state science standards in all fifty states plus the District of Columbia.

Here’s what they had to say about TN & VA:

The Tennessee science standards are clearly written—but their linguistic clarity too often is undermined by statements that are so broad they starve the passages of meaning. To make matters more confusing, Tennessee offers a bewildering array of high school courses. Taken together, these drawbacks make it impossible to infer what a student in the Volunteer State will know (or at least be expected to know) upon graduation.

The Old Dominion’s science standards are among the few that we would cheerfully recommend as models for other states (and for drafters of “common” standards for this field). They are thorough and rigorous, particularly in the areas of mathematical applications and evolution, and they clearly provide a solid foundation for a rigorous K-12 science curriculum.

Jump to the specific pages of report for Tennessee or Virginia

The National Guard Armory is the new voting location for early voters in Bristol, Tenn.

Those who want an absentee ballot have until Feb. 28 to request a ballot.

Polling places:

• Sullivan County Election Commission Office
• National Guard Armory, Bristol, Tenn.
• Civic Auditorium, Kingsport

Polling dates

• Feb. 15-17 from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.
• Feb. 18 from 9 a.m. to noon
• Closed Feb. 20 for Presidents Day
• Feb. 21-24 from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.
• Feb. 25 from 9 a.m. to noon
• Feb. 27-28 from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Virginia & Tennessee by Erica Regelin

More than 50 percent of the Tennessee population could not pay their living expenses for three months if they lost a job. The Volunteer State ranks 36th nationally.

In Virginia that figure is 35 percent that’s 15th nationally. These figures are from the corporation for enterprise development.