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New movie theater mixes plush with enviro-friendly

CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. - With plush lounge chairs, gourmet appetizers, a VIP auditorium and the latest digital and 3-D equipment, Chattanooga's newest movie theater complex doesn't need toilets that flush rain water to sell tickets. ...

From BILL POOVEY, Atlanta Journal Constitution Vendor,  13 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Carmike Cinemas, Inc.,  La-Z-Boy

GM offers moves to soon-to-be idled UAW workers

CHATTANOOGA, Tenn.—General Motors has offered union workers at the automaker's soon-to-be idled Spring Hill assembly plant 840 jobs at Lansing Delta Township, Mich., where GM is relocating production of the Chevrolet Traverse. More than 2,000 GM ...

From BILL POOVEY, Boston Globe,  13 Nov 2009

Related Topics: General Motors,  Chevrolet

Groups challenge TVA river discharge from plant

CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. - Environmental activists are trying to stop the Tennessee Valley Authority from starting a daily 1 million gallon discharge of water that contains mercury, selenium and other pollutants into the same river where coal ash was spilled ...

From BILL POOVEY, Atlanta Journal Constitution Vendor,  12 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Tennessee Valley Authority,  Environmental Protection Agency

Property owner near TVA ash spill 'living in hell'

KINGSTON, Tenn. - Ten months after millions of cubic yards of coal ash spilled from a Tennessee Valley Authority dam, Gary Topmiller and his wife, Pam, said they are trapped in their home across the Emory River from the site and "living in hell." A ...

From BILL POOVEY, Atlanta Journal Constitution Vendor,  11 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Tennessee Valley Authority,  Kingston Fossil Plant

VW to start accepting applications for new plant

Ryan Rose, a spokesman for the $1 billion plant where workers will build a new mid-sized sedan starting in 2011, said applicants from the Chattanooga area will get priority in the first phase of the screening, a day of hands-on testing that simulates ...

From BILL POOVEY, San Francisco Chronicle,  16 Oct 2009

Psychiatrist repaying insider trading profits

CHATTANOOGA, Tenn.—A Chattanooga psychiatrist accused of insider trading in a complaint involving the former Covansys Corp. has agreed to pay about $770,000 in a Securities and Exchange Commission complaint. The SEC said in a statement Monday that Dr. ...

From BILL POOVEY, Boston Globe,  31 Aug 2009

Related Topics: Securities and Exchange Commission

US Nissan plant to use methanol to cut costs

In another cost-cutting move that also makes its car and truck production a little greener, Nissan North America said Tuesday it will use methanol fuel cells on some vehicles used to haul parts to assembly lines, starting at its plant in central ...

From BILL POOVEY, Taiwan News,  25 Aug 2009

Tenn. Nissan plant to use methanol to cut costs

SMYRNA, Tenn. - In another cost-cutting move that also makes its car and truck production a little greener, Nissan North America said Tuesday it will use methanol fuel cells on some vehicles used to haul parts to assembly lines, starting at its plant in ...

From BILL POOVEY, Atlanta Journal Constitution Vendor,  25 Aug 2009

6 cops, 59 shots, 43 wounds, 1 dead man in Tenn.

CHATTANOOGA, Tenn.—Alonzo Heyward carried a rifle around his low-rent neighborhood one day last month, ranting about suicide and ignoring the pleas of friends for hours before six Chattanooga police officers surrounded him on his front porch and ...

From BILL POOVEY, Boston Globe,  19 Aug 2009

Related Topics: Federal Bureau of Investigation,  U.S. Department of Justice

Tennessee among first to get electric car chargers

The president of an Arizona-based company working with Nissan and getting a nearly $100 million federal grant to supply chargers for electric vehicles said communities in Tennessee, Arizona, California, Washington and Oregon will get the equipment ...

From BILL POOVEY, San Francisco Chronicle,  5 Aug 2009

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