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Mary Elizabeth 'Tipper' Gore

Nashville now and then: Fightin' words

The other episode of journalistic gunplay in Nashville history, a hard line against the homeless, your old-Nashville geo-quiz, and birthdays galore
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Morning Links: 20 November 2006

Protest from competitor costs America Service Group a Fla. contract, Harpeth Capital exec joins Kohlberg Capital board, new mega-LBO causes little movement for local REITs, Asurion and Ignify partner to provide paid mobile phone protection to Japan, and more...

Shared suffering: FractionAir reveals creditor cramdown

FractionAir's controlling investor announces it has provided a loan to help keep the company afloat, but letter to creditors shows that the proceeds fall short of initial plan

Shares of sorrow: FractionAir faces mounting problems

A company offering fractional ownership of jet aircraft is in serious trouble, exposing high-profile investors and customers like Al Gore, Eddie George, ex-American General chief Joe Kelley and VU medical leader Harry Jacobson to financial risk -- and casting a shadow over the mayoral campaign of one of the company's former directors, Bob Clement

Vanderbilt in talks to lure Gores

Negotiations aimed at bringing about some affiliation between former Vice President Al Gore and Vanderbilt University are ongoing but will not materialize into a formal agreement in time for Gore to play

Tipper says time isn't right now for Senate run

Tipper Gore has decided not to run for the U.S. Senate seat being vacated by Fred Thompson, The Washington Post reported Sunday evening. The wife of former Vice President Al Gore said in a statement

With nod to Tipper, Clement enters Senate race

On a stage erected just a coin flip from the lobby fountain/wishing well of the Union Station Hotel, U.S. Rep. Bob Clement (D-5th District) announced Monday his candidacy for the U.S. Senate. Flanked

Al Gore, boy reporter

Victory for the Clinton-Gore ticket would place a Watergate-era investigative reporter within a heartbeat of the presidency. In his brief career at The Tennessean, Al Gore not only helped to clean up a corrupt local government, but also revived his political aspirations, which had been shattered by a tour of duty in Vietnam and the election defeat of his father.
[As published in the Nashville Scene, September 17, 1992]


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