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James A. Rose

James is a practicing juvenile law attorney and publisher. He has been in Nashville for most of his life and loves the city and the people. He lives downtown and is a native of Ashland City, TN.

College Football Challenge - Weeks Zero and 1

College Football Challenge - Weeks Zero and 1

Cloud Nine Higher publisher James Rose of Nashville, Tennessee and football analyst Subbu of Chennai, India embark on their annual forecast of the biggest games in the Football Bowl Subdivision. Scores and TV listings from theScore: Week Zero: Notre Dame 42, Navy 3 Vanderbilt 35, Hawai'i 28 USC

Nashville Election Takeaways

Nashville Election Takeaways

Ready for Freddie O'Connell to be Nashville's next mayor? I hope so, because, following a divided vote among progressives/liberals, Alice Rolli has an uphill battle ahead of her. This runoff election is similar to the one Megan Barry won eight years ago. 2015 now seems

Baseball is Getting to be Fun in Cincinnati

Baseball is Getting to be Fun in Cincinnati

If you're a Cincinnati Reds fan (as many in Tennessee are), you've had plenty of reasons to be disinterested in baseball at Great American Ball Park in recent years. Try these records from MLB.com: 62-100 in 2022; 83-79 in 2021 (a bit better that year)

Downtown Nashville Still Thrills

Downtown Nashville Still Thrills

If you've been reading The Tennessean this week, you might be afraid to come to downtown Nashville or might think we have lost the shine of an "It" city. I respectfully take issue with the article by Sandy Mazza dated July 27, 2023: "'Time

Keep on Listening to Jason Aldean

Keep on Listening to Jason Aldean

Why screw up a great country groove with politics? Jason Aldean and songwriters Neil Thrasher, Kurt Allison, Tully Kennedy, and Kelley Lovelace are not racist. No, I've never heard of any of those songwriters. But, if Jason Aldean records their song, they surely are top notch. And controversy

The legacy of Jimmy Carter

The legacy of Jimmy Carter

When I learned about six months ago that former U.S. President Jimmy Carter, born October 1, 1924, had gone into hospice care, I planned to write an article based on the "Crisis of Confidence" speech delivered from the Oval Office on July 15, 1979. The speech, which

Tennessee needs to focus on gun laws

Tennessee needs to focus on gun laws

Governor Bill Lee of our great state of Tennessee has used the power granted to him by Article III, Section 9 of our Constitution to call the General Assembly into "special session", legally known as "extraordinary session", on August 21. The Constitutional article referenced above is