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Nashville is the capital and most populous city of the U.S. state of Tennessee. The city is the county seat of Davidson County and is located on the Cumberland River. It is the 23rd most-populous city in the United States.
Tennessee, officially the State of Tennessee, is a state in the southeastern United States. Tennessee is the 36th largest by area and the 16th most populous of the 50 states. It is bordered by eight states, with Kentucky to the north, Virginia to the northeast, North Carolina to the east, Georgia, Alabama, and Mississippi to the south, Arkansas to the west, and Missouri to the northwest. The Appalachian Mountains dominate the eastern part of the state, and the Mississippi River forms its western border. Nashville is the state's capital and largest city, with a 2019 population of 670,820 and a 2019 metro population of 1,934,317. Tennessee's second largest city is Memphis, which had a population of 651,073 and metro population of 1,346,045 in 2019.
Interstate 24 (I-24) is an Interstate Highway in the Midwestern and Southeastern United States. It runs diagonally from I-57, 10 miles (16 km) south of Marion, Illinois, to Chattanooga, Tennessee, at I-75. As an even-numbered Interstate, it is signed as an east–west route, though the route follows a more southeast–northwest routing, passing through Nashville, Tennessee. Because the routing of I-24 is diagonal, the numbering deviates from the standard Interstate Highway System numbering conventions. I-24 constitutes the majority of a high-traffic corridor between St. Louis and Atlanta. This corridor utilizes I-64 and I-57 northwest of I-24, and I-75 southeast of I-24.
William Edward Haslam is an American billionaire businessman and politician, who served as the 49th Governor of Tennessee from 2011 to 2019. He is a member of the Republican Party and was previously the mayor of Knoxville, Tennessee.
Interstate 840 (I-840), formerly State Route 840 (SR 840), is a freeway that serves as an outer bypass route around Nashville, Tennessee. Built by the Tennessee Department of Transportation (TDOT), it is also designated as Tennessee National Guard Parkway. At 77.28 miles (124.37 km) long, it is the tenth-longest auxiliary Interstate Highway in the nation. The route serves the cities of Lebanon, Murfreesboro, Franklin, and Dickson, all suburbs of Nashville.
The Tennessee Language Center (TLC), formerly known as the Tennessee Foreign Language Institute (TFLI), is an agency of the University of Tennessee's Institute for Public Service. Originally created as an agency of the State of Tennessee in 1986, TLC provides language classes, language teacher training and certification, and interpretation and translation services.
The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to Tennessee:
Project DIANE, an acronym for Diversified Information and Assistance NEtwork, was a very early videoconferencing based community service network created in the United States. DIANE was a grassroots driven regional videoconferencing consortium which promoted and supported cooperative electronic alliances in education, community service, and economic development.
Kevin S. Huffman is an American lawyer and education administrator who was the Commissioner of the Tennessee Department of Education. He was appointed to the position by Tennessee Governor Bill Haslam and served from April 2011 to January 2015. Prior to his work at the Tennessee Department of Education, Huffman held a senior management position in Teach for America and had worked as an attorney specializing in education.
Same-sex marriage in the U.S. state of Tennessee became legal with the U.S. Supreme Court ruling in Obergefell v. Hodges on June 26, 2015. That day, Governor Bill Haslam announced the state would follow the judicial order, and same-sex couples began to marry in Tennessee.
Megan Christine Barry is an American businesswoman and politician, who served as the seventh mayor of the Metropolitan Government of Nashville and Davidson County from 2015 until March 6, 2018, when she resigned after pleading guilty to felony theft related to an extramarital affair with a city employee who had served as the head of her security detail. Barry is a member of the Democratic Party.
Digital Reasoning is an American company headquartered in Franklin, Tennessee. It offers cognitive computing services to intelligence agencies, financial institutions and healthcare organizations in the United States.
Council Capital is a private equity and venture capital healthcare firm based in Nashville, Tennessee, U.S.
The 2020 United States Senate election in Tennessee was held on November 3, 2020, to elect a member of the United States Senate to represent the State of Tennessee, concurrently with the 2020 U.S. presidential election, as well as other elections to the United States Senate in other states and elections to the United States House of Representatives and various state and local elections. Incumbent Republican Senator Lamar Alexander announced that he would not run for reelection on December 17, 2018. The former United States Ambassador to Japan Bill Hagerty won the open seat by a landslide against his Democratic opponent Marquita Bradshaw.
William Francis Hagerty IV is an American politician, diplomat, and businessman who is the U.S. Senator-elect from Tennessee, having been elected to succeed Lamar Alexander in 2020. A member of the Republican Party, Hagerty served as the 30th United States Ambassador to Japan from 2017 to 2019.
Nashville Soccer Club is a Major League Soccer team based in Nashville, Tennessee. The team began play in the league in 2020 as a continuation of the USL club of the same name and plays its home matches at Nissan Stadium, with intention to move to a 30,000-seat stadium at the Nashville Fairgrounds to be constructed in the near future. It is principally owned by John Ingram, owner of Ingram Industries, along with investors and partial owners the Turner family of Dollar General Stores and the Wilf family.
The Nashville Fairgrounds Stadium is an under construction soccer-specific stadium at the historic Nashville Fairgrounds in Nashville, Tennessee. It will be the home of Major League Soccer club Nashville SC, which began play as an expansion team in 2020 at its temporary home in Nissan Stadium. Lawsuits to prevent its construction filed by supporters of the historic Tennessee State Fair were dismissed by Chancellor Ellen Hobbs Lyle in 2017 and 2019, but overturned by Appellate Judge J. Steven Stafford in July 2019 and litigation continues as of March 2020.
Bruce Crabtree was an American architect and politician. He designed many buildings in Nashville, Tennessee, including the Andrew Jackson State Office Building and the James K. Polk State Office Building. He served as the vice mayor of Belle Meade, Tennessee.
William Byron Lee is an American businessman and politician serving as the 50th governor of Tennessee. Elected in 2018, Lee campaigned as a business-oriented member of the Republican Party. Before entering politics he held various positions at the Lee Company, an inherited family business; he was the company's president and CEO from 1992 to 2016.
The COVID-19 pandemic was confirmed to have reached the U.S. state of Tennessee on March 5, 2020. As of December 5, 2020, there are 397,522 confirmed cases, 4,905 deaths, 357,347 recoveries, and 4,641,511 reported tests.
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- ↑ "TNInvestco". Tennessee Department of Economic and Community Development. Retrieved November 13, 2015.
- ↑ Nannie, Philip (November 29, 2011). "Council Capital invests in Payment America". NashvillePost.com. Retrieved November 13, 2015.
- ↑ McGee, Jamie (October 9, 2014). "When crisis strikes, Digital Reasoning takes action". The Tennessean . Retrieved October 7, 2015.
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