Robertson County wants to accelerate economic development and create high-wage jobs but preserve rural culture and agricultural landscapes.

It is predicted that by 2019, the Nashville area will add nearly 151,000 jobs. About 45 percent of these new jobs will require some form of postsecondary experience. More than 67,500 workers will reach retirement age in the next decade, and the projected gap by 2019 in the Nashville area is...

Promises to create jobs could spell trouble, or one of these proposals may work, or maybe we'll just wait long enough for the economy to fix itself.

The recent increase in the rate of growth in the black population has important implications for the state's population mix.

In 2008, Columbia received a $519,000 HUD grant to replace blighted east Columbia homes with pre-built housing. Under CHRC's plan, lower-income single-family homes will eventually replace dilapidated structures and act as catalysts for additional neighborhood reinvestment.

Since the county's population is expected to be 418,990 by 2030, maintaining the rural landscape is going to be increasingly dificult. The tension facing Williamson County is a classic balancing act between the desire to maintain the rural landscape and offering incentives to the property owners...