Your top choices: NashvillePost.com's most-read stories of 2006

Headlines that got away chronicle a year of deals done, campaigns run, chicanery exposed, and Nashville's infinite capacity for high weirdness once again observed with marvel

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01-02-2007 12:26 PM —

Whew. There went another year.

Your personal staff of humble and quirky scribes at NashvillePost.com spent 2006 chasing one tasty gazelle of a story after another across the fecund savannah of Middle Tennessee's business and political landscape. Take our word for it, folks: Reporting the news in Nashville has not always been such a hectic affair, and in years gone by we have lived through months and months that were like the past week or so — utterly devoid of activity worth covering. For just about all of 2006, however, the joint was jumpin'.

The list of our most-read stories for the year, as ranked by pageviews, reflects the target-rich environment in which we operated last year. It is somewhat skewed, though, by the fact that our readership grew dramatically over the course of 2006, so that some of our most popular stories from early in the year don't make the cut. Be that as it may, we thought you might enjoy reliving the commercial achievements, political occurrences and social oddities that kept us so busy all year. Here are the stories, each paired with the headline we might have used, but didn't....

1. One toe over the line?, or "Politician may literally have foot in mouth" (21 September 2006)
2. Procter & Gamble exec behind Senate 'push poll', or "Marketer of Tide wants to turn it" (30 October 2006)
3. 1Point's woes: Assets missing at benefits firm, or "Door fails to hit assets, they're gone!" (15 September 2006)
4. Was the Musgrove tale just the beginning? or "This is only supposed to happen to Louisana Govs" (29 September 2006)
5. Acts of faith: $18 million at stake in corporate collapse with church ties, or "Ponzi takes in Mr. C notes" (26 October 2006)
6. Heart attack: Competitors threaten core franchise of St. Thomas, or "Behind the surgical mask of intrigue" (30 June 2006)
7. Shares of sorrow: FractionAir faces mounting problems, or "Ground control to major problem" (15 June 2006)
8. St. Thomas Cardiology dissolves; docs off to VUMC and Centennial, or "Cardiac cowboys have change of heart" (23 October 2006)
9. Editor Mitchell departs Tennessean, or "Tennessean loses another non-Tennessean" (18 September 2006)
10. Breaking news: John Ford indicted on federal wire fraud charges, or "His movies aren't doing so well lately, either" (18 December 2006)
11. Shakedown probe looks at minority-business dealings, or "FBI supposedly leaves Memphis" (15 June 2006)
12. 1Point Solutions hands out pink slips, or "Red-faced owner resorts to pink" (22 September 2006)
13. Four litigators depart Baker Donelson for Waller, or "Barristers brazenly bolt Baker" (1 August 2006)
14. Stokes speaks out, or "Barry...Barry, he's quite contrary" (4 October 2006)
15. Turner family firm and Wilds face lawsuit from fired asset manager, or "Dollars generally in dispute" (17 May 2006)
16. Beyond the grave, a battle continues, or "Lindahl loot left in lingering limbo" (7 December 2006)
17. Singer Chely Wright sues Nashville law firm, or "Litigation over lyrical litigation" (13 December 2006)
18. Veteran Nashville lawyer dies suddenly, or "Remembering Charlie Ray" (30 November 2006)
19. Former Mississippi governor denies affair with Maddox Foundation leader, or "She's toe-tally not my type" (22 September 2006)
20. Alexander upset in bid for Minority Whip, or "Former Education Sec. can't count" (15 November 2006)
21. Lawyers shift to 'Bama law firm, or "'Bama forgoes coach for more lawyers" (1 September 2006)
22. Steve Adams dismissed after harassment probe, or "Lotto leader scratched" (5 January 2006)
23. Fiddle-dee-dee: Nero’s to be revived, supplanting Green Hills Grille, or "Restaurant exec scalded by return of corn cakes" (15 February 2006)
24. Perry March convicted on all counts, or "FINALLY" (8 June 2006)
25. Vandyland, R.I.P., or "Quality milkshakes no more" (24 February 2006)

The stories listed above, and all NashvillePost.com articles more than 30 days old, are available in our archive at no charge. Visitors to our site read 3,694 different NashvillePost.com articles in 2006, dating back to January 2000, when the news service was launched. The most popular articles from prior years were:

1. 'Tennessee Waltz' FBI Informant: I Paid Off Ulysses Jones (14 December 2005)
2. Giarratana unveils redesigned Signature Tower (17 August 2005)
3. Power steering: Wealth, leadership and the destiny of Nashville (21 May 2001)
4. 130 members of clergy press Bredesen for milder TennCare reforms (16 September 2004)
5. A posse of urban pioneers (12 December 2005)

We wish all of our readers a happy new year, full of good news.