WASHINGTON (AP) — The Affordable Care Act — "Obamacare" — has inspired many exaggerated claims through the years, both from fans and foes. Now President Joe Biden is adding his own.

With a few loose words turned into a pithy formula, the president implies that his enhanced version of the ACA is much better than it really is. Biden suggests that considerably more people are getting health insurance for less than $10 a month than what's actually been the case.

2. Top Davidson County residential sales for November 2021 - Friday, December 10, 2021

Top residential real estate sales, November 2021, for Davidson County, as compiled by Chandler Reports.

Chandler Reports has been publishing Real Estate Market Data since 1968. That year, Chandler began collecting residential sales information for the Chandler Residential Report, considered the authoritative source for residential real estate sales information. Over the next three decades, the publications have been continually refined, enhanced and expanded, growing to include lot sales data, new residential construction and absorption information, and commercial sales. In 1987, Chandler Reports began one of the first on–line real estate market data services in the country, and is a nationally recognized leader in the industry. In 2004, Chandler Reports was purchased by The Daily News Publishing Co. In 2007, Chandler introduced RegionPlus, including property research for Nashville and Middle Tennessee. Visit online at chandlerreports.com.

3. Public health v. freedom of choice - Friday, December 3, 2021

When the sun came up on the last Saturday in October, the Tennessee legislature had voted overwhelmingly along party lines to say that the state – not the federal government – will call the shots in dealing with COVID-19.

4. Bass names Blackshear to executive committee - Friday, June 11, 2021

Bass, Berry & Sims has appointed Lillian M. Blackshear from the firm’s Nashville office to its executive committee.

The seven-member committee includes attorneys from the firm’s Memphis, Nashville and Washington, D.C., offices. Members oversee strategic priorities of the firm, including client service, diversity and inclusion, growth and pro bono initiatives.

5. Top Davidson County residential sales for fourth quarter 2020 - Friday, February 5, 2021

Top residential real estate sales, fourth quarter 2020, for Davidson County, as compiled by Chandler Reports.

Chandler Reports has been publishing Real Estate Market Data since 1968. That year, Chandler began collecting residential sales information for the Chandler Residential Report, considered the authoritative source for residential real estate sales information. Over the next three decades, the publications have been continually refined, enhanced and expanded, growing to include lot sales data, new residential construction and absorption information, and commercial sales. In 1987, Chandler Reports began one of the first on–line real estate market data services in the country, and is a nationally recognized leader in the industry. In 2004, Chandler Reports was purchased by The Daily News Publishing Co. In 2007, Chandler introduced RegionPlus, including property research for Nashville and Middle Tennessee. Visit online at chandlerreports.com.

6. The best, worst from the 111th General Assembly - Friday, July 3, 2020

Tennessee legislators, having adjourned sine die and high-tailed it homeward, it’s time for a final report card on the 111th session of the General Assembly.

The good news: It wasn’t all bad. The bad news: It wasn’t much good. Here is my highly subjective list of grades:

7. Ladder has competition for ‘official state tool’ - Friday, March 6, 2020

A preliminary legislative update, with first things first: Tennessee is now officially the Volunteer State.

No real surprise there. As suggested by Rep. Jason Zachary, whose staff discovered the surprising nickname oversight and who sponsored the remedy in the House, “It may not be the best move as an elected official in the state of Tennessee to oppose this legislation.”

8. We’re not the Volunteer State, at least not yet - Friday, January 3, 2020

A multiple-choice quiz. Tennessee’s official state nickname is:

A. The Hog and Hominy State

B. The Volunteer State

C. The Mother of Southwestern Statesmen

D. The Birthplace of Miley Cyrus.

9. TBA selects 33 for Leadership Law program - Friday, December 27, 2019

The Tennessee Bar Association has picked 33 attorneys from across the state for its 2020 Leadership Law program.

Now in its 17th year, Leadership Law is designed to equip Tennessee lawyers with the vision, knowledge and skills necessary to serve as leaders in their profession and local communities.

10. Lee taps 38 to serve on census panel - Friday, October 18, 2019

NASHVILLE (AP) — Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee has appointed 38 people to a panel that will work with the U.S. Census Bureau on the 2020 Census.

Lee's office announced a wide variety of appointees to the Tennessee Complete Count Committee on Wednesday.

11. Lee taps 38 to serve on census panel - Friday, October 11, 2019

NASHVILLE (AP) — Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee has appointed 38 people to a panel that will work with the U.S. Census Bureau on the 2020 Census.

Lee's office announced a wide variety of appointees to the Tennessee Complete Count Committee on Wednesday.

12. Speaker Pro Tem Dunn says he believes sex assault allegations - Friday, May 17, 2019

NASHVILLE (AP) — A key Republican leader who is next in line to take over the Tennessee House said on Wednesday he believes the women who have accused a Republican member of sexual misconduct.

13. Nine years and 27 distilleries later ... - Friday, December 7, 2018

With legal battles behind them and hundreds of aging barrels ready to be tapped, craft distilleries statewide are part of a growing army of whiskey businesses poised to share their liquid gold and their houses of origin.

14. Fortunes mostly made in Belle Meade transactions - Friday, November 2, 2018

Belle Meade has long been considered the bellwether for the upper-end housing market as the neighborhood is loaded with old and new money.

While touring the older homes, buyers become aware that many longtime residents of the land are happy with their homes that have functioning kitchens and comfortable flow for entertaining. Theses houses have welcomed their friends for years and years, or decades and decades as people like to say these days, literally (another crowd favorite).

15. East meets west as 2 legislators run out of time - Friday, May 4, 2018

It wasn’t quite a constitutional crisis, but when Reps. Micah Van Huss and Joe Towns start teaming up, something is amiss.

Van Huss, a Republican from East Tennessee near Johnson City, and Towns, a Democrat from Memphis, are typically like water and oil. But on the final day of the 110th General Assembly, when they felt the Senate slow-walked and spiked their constitutional amendments, they suddenly became bosom buddies, forgetting they were on opposite sides of the argument over Memphis and removal of Confederate monuments.

16. Fifth Third Bank names Hays area sales manager - Friday, February 9, 2018

Fifth Third Bank has named Greg Hays as vice president and mortgage area sales manager for the Tennessee market.

In this role, Hays will manage the existing mortgage team and lead Fifth Third’s plan to expand the mortgage team in the Nashville market.

17. Haslam considering changes to UT Board of Trustees - Friday, December 22, 2017

Gov. Bill Haslam is considering reducing the number University of Tennessee Board of Trustees members and trimming the number of finalists presented for top leadership positions in the UT system, Lt. Gov. Randy McNally has confirmed.

18. Top Middle Tennessee residential transactions for August 2017 - Friday, September 22, 2017

Top residential real estate sales, August 2017, for Davidson, Williamson, Rutherford, Wilson and Sumner counties, as compiled by Chandler Reports.

19. Polsinelli hires corporate, transactional attorney - Friday, June 30, 2017

Polsinelli, an AmLaw 100 law firm, has added Matthew White as an associate. White is a member of the firm’s national Corporate and Transactional Practice Group, bringing additional experience in private equity, and mergers and acquisitions to Polsinelli’s Business Department.

20. Tennessee lawmakers make late session push on final bills - Friday, May 5, 2017

NASHVILLE (AP) — Tennessee lawmakers nearly checked off the last of their lingering legislative priorities Tuesday, as they moved to require metal detectors for gun-banning city facilities and pushed to let older adults without a college degree or certificate attend community college for free.

21. Tennessee passes sign language bill - Friday, April 21, 2017

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — The Tennessee Legislature has passed a measure that allows students to take American Sign Language and get credit for their foreign language requirements.

Sen. Becky Massey, a Republican from Knoxville who sponsored the Senate Bill, said Tennessee passed a law allowing kids to take ASL for credit back in the early '90s. But Massey said lawmakers never made sure it got implemented. She said the new bill assures that it will.

22. Senate advances bill to require vertical licenses for minors - Friday, February 17, 2017

NASHVILLE (AP) — Drivers under the age of 21 would be issued driver's licenses printed in a vertical format under a bill advancing in the Tennessee Senate.

The bill sponsored by Republican Sen. Becky Massey of Knoxville was approved by the Senate Transportation Committee on an 8-0 vote on Wednesday. Democratic Sen. Jeff Yarbro of Nashville abstained.

23. Reactionaries, evidence vie on medicinal marijuana - Friday, January 6, 2017

Three-year-old Josie Mae Mathis of Greene County used to suffer hundreds of seizures daily from epilepsy and infantile spasms.

Aden Vogus, a pre-teen from Brentwood, has seen his seizures all but disappear.

24. Legal Aid Society picks new president, board - Friday, July 29, 2016

Robert “Bob” J. Martineau Jr., commissioner for the Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation, has been selected as president of the Legal Aid Society of Middle Tennessee and the Cumberlands.

25. Top Middle Tennessee commercial transactions for June 2016 - Friday, July 29, 2016

Top commercial real estate sales, June 2016, for Davidson, Williamson, Rutherford, Wilson and Sumner counties, as compiled by Chandler Reports.

26. Top Middle Tennessee commercial transactions for May 2016 - Friday, June 24, 2016

Top commercial real estate sales, May 2016, for Davidson, Williamson, Rutherford, Wilson and Sumner counties, as compiled by Chandler Reports.

27. Senate votes to add penalties for texting school bus drivers - Friday, March 4, 2016

NASHVILLE (AP) - A fatal school bus crash in Knoxville has inspired Tennessee lawmakers to seek tougher penalties for drivers using electronic devices.

Investigators last year found that one driver had been reading a text message just before his bus crashed through a highway median and hit another school bus coming in the other direction in December 2014, killing two students and a teacher's aide.

28. Massey likes Insure Tennessee despite Republican pedigree - Friday, March 4, 2016

State Sen. Becky Duncan Massey points proudly to a picture of her father on Air Force One with President Ronald Reagan when he visited Athens, Tennessee, in 1985.

John Duncan served as Knoxville’s mayor and then as an East Tennessee Republican congressman for 24 years, succeeded by her brother, U.S. Rep. Jimmy Duncan Jr., in 1988.

29. From DNA lab to whiskey distiller: A well-laid plan gains steam - Friday, January 15, 2016

When Bruce Boeko’s company shut down its Nashville operations, he could have parlayed his experience into a similar position elsewhere.

He’d been successful in a small and specialized industry, rising in 20 years from scientist to manager of a DNA laboratory that conducted forensic analysis of biological samples for agencies like the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation. It was work he enjoyed in a field he loved.

30. Kasich makes fundraising stops in Tennessee - Friday, November 27, 2015

NASHVILLE (AP) - Republican presidential candidate John Kasich said Tuesday that his visit to Tennessee is aimed at avoiding having to scramble for support in the state's March 1 primary if he emerges as a strong contender from the earliest contests.

31. Belmont’s Littlejohn named Professor of the Year - Friday, November 27, 2015

Belmont’s Ronnie Littlejohn, professor of philosophy and director of the University’s Asian Studies program, has been named as the 2015 Tennessee Professor of the Year, an award selection determined by The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and the Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE).

32. Ramsey springs to Haslam's aid on Tennessee outsourcing talk - Friday, October 23, 2015

NASHVILLE (AP) - Senate Speaker Ron Ramsey is dismissing rising concerns among fellow Republicans about Gov. Bill Haslam's efforts to privatize elements of state government as a result of complaints from "squeaky wheels" in their districts.

33. Dean, Henry, Hyde named to YWCA board - Friday, October 9, 2015

The YWCA of Nashville & Middle Tennessee has elected three new members for the 2015-2016 board term, including former Mayor Karl Dean.

Also, with her election as the first female mayor of Nashville, Megan Barry has resigned her position on the YWCA board.

34. Construction attorneys move to Dickinson Wright - Friday, August 14, 2015

Nashville attorneys Rob Dodson and Slade Sevier have joined Dickinson Wright PLLC as members. Both were previously with Adams and Reese.

Dodson focuses his practice on the construction and energy industries. In addition to his primary construction practice, Dodson also has significant experience in general commercial litigation, insurance and products liability litigation.

35. Hanto named director of Vanderbilt Transplant Center - Friday, August 7, 2015

Douglas Hanto M.D., Ph.D., professor of surgery and associate director of the Vanderbilt Transplant Center, has been named the Center’s new director.

Hanto, an internationally recognized leader in organ transplantation, joined Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC) in 2014 as the center’s associate director and has since worked with the departments of Pediatrics and Surgery to establish a comprehensive pediatric liver center at the Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt.

36. Caputo appointed to American Chamber post - Friday, July 17, 2015

Christopher M. Caputo of Baker Donelson has been appointed by the American Chamber of Commerce in Italy as the organization’s local representative in Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana and Tennessee.

37. Bill allows use of certain amounts of cannabis oil - Friday, April 10, 2015

NASHVILLE (AP) — Legislation that would allow a person to possess cannabis oil under certain circumstances is headed to the governor for his consideration.

The proposal was unanimously approved 26-0 in the Senate and 95-0 in the House on Monday.

38. Senate panel advances Haslam's Insure Tennessee proposal - Friday, March 20, 2015

NASHVILLE (AP) - A revived version of Gov. Bill Haslam's proposal to extend health coverage to 280,000 low-income Tennesseans on Wednesday cleared its first full Senate committee.

The Senate Health Committee voted 6-2 to advance the Insure Tennessee proposal to the commerce committee, where it is expected to face difficult prospects. Republican Senate Speaker Ron Ramsey has predicted that the measure won't make it to a full floor vote.

39. Top Middle Tennessee commercial transactions for October 2014 - Friday, November 28, 2014

Top October 2014 commercial real estate transactions for Davidson, Williamson, Rutherford, Wilson and Sumner counties, as compiled by Chandler Reports.

40. Power companies dangle free nights and weekends - Friday, August 16, 2013

NEW YORK (AP) — Electric bills have long been take-it-or-leave-it affairs: Pay one rate for all the power you used the month before, no matter when you used it.

But some electric companies want to shake-up that rigid business model. They are increasingly offering plans that sound like come-ons from mobile phone companies: Free nights, free weekends and pre-paid plans.

41. More charges may come in case involving Haslams - Friday, May 31, 2013

NASHVILLE (AP) — Sudden guilty pleas by a pair of mid-level executives show the investigation into the truck stop chain controlled by the family of Tennessee's governor and the Cleveland Browns' owner is picking up steam, with prosecutors likely setting their sights on higher-ups at the company, experts say.

42. Republicans push amendments to reshape constitution - Friday, May 3, 2013

The Tennessee Constitution is designed to be difficult to change.

But that doesn’t stop legislators from trying.

More than a dozen constitutional amendments were introduced by lawmakers at the just-completed session of the state legislature.

43. HCA says KKR and Bain will sell 50M shares - Friday, February 8, 2013

NASHVILLE (AP) — Hospital operator HCA Holdings Inc. said Monday that a group of investors plan to sell up to 50 million shares of its stock.

44. Dodson honored with Tune public service award - Friday, January 25, 2013

The Nashville Bar Association has named Harlan Dodson, a partner and founder of the Nashville law firm Dodson Parker Behm & Capparella, PC, recipient of the John C. Tune Public Service Award.

45. Merrill returns as VUH chief of staff - Friday, April 6, 2012

Cardiothoracic surgeon Walter Merrill, M.D., a member of the Vanderbilt faculty from 1983 until 2002, has returned to Vanderbilt to become chief of staff of Vanderbilt University Hospital.

46. VUMC’s Stover receives Young Physician Award - Friday, October 21, 2011

Daniel Stover, M.D., chief resident on the Department of Medicine at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, is the recipient of this year’s Holt Young Physician Leadership Award presented by the Southern Medical Association.

47. Sons of Tenn. politicians cash in on known name - Friday, October 14, 2011

NASHVILLE (AP) - The youthful son of a well-known Tennessee politician declares for public office and runs headlong into criticism about his inexperience and effort to ride the coattails of his famous father.

48. Taylor joins Bone McAllester Norton - Friday, June 17, 2011

Stephanie R. Taylor has joined the law firm of Bone McAllester Norton PLLC and will oversee the firm’s Entertainment Law group