By CHARLES W. JOHNSON / News Editor for the Southern Standard RIGSBY Pending approval of a grant and financing, a regional meat packing plant will be moving to Warren County, according to a report given by director of economic development Don Rigsby to the county commission at its July meeting.“We have a sausage company that…

By Jim Glenn There are many things women should know about Social Security. But here are five of the most important Social Security messages every woman should know.1. Nothing keeps you from getting your own Social Security benefit.• If you’ve worked for at least 10 years and earned a minimum of 40 work credits, you…

By Bruce Williams DEAR BRUCE: What do rich people do with their cash reserves? I sold some property used to build a new school, receiving more than the $100,000 that the banks insure. I don’t want to make less than 1 percent on my money, but I also do not want to risk my money…

By Beth Furbush Nominations for the 2003 Torch Award for Marketplace Ethics closed July 31.The following companies — including three in Warren County — have been nominated by a customer, business association or employee who feels these companies deserve recognition for their commitment to integrity in our marketplace. The three Warren County companies are River…

By James Clark I search all corners of the world in an effort to dig up amusing stories and this week’s Business Pulse is no different. I found a gem on the Associated Press wire service recently about a 32-year-old Jerusalem woman.According to reports, the woman found a cockroach and was apparently holding it close…

William Herbert Floyd, 69McMinnville resident and Cairo, Ga., native William Herbert Floyd, 69, died Aug. 8 at Centennial Medical Center in Nashville after an extended illness.A nursery worker and a member of the Church of Christ, he was the son of the late Grover Cleveland and Anna May Nunley Floyd, and was preceded in death…

By Diana West / Columnist Even in a culture as (how to put it?) comfortable with its own relativism as ours is, it’s unlikely that a recent Washington Post front-page article about Canada’s “safe injection sites” for intravenous drug users went down quite as smoothly as the morning coffee. It wasn’t the pathetic degradation of…

By Ed Kimbrell / Columnist History shows us fear moves the nation into a period where personal freedoms are at risk. So it was with the 9/11 attacks that led to the Patriot Act and unheard of measures at airports, seaports, and at the local level to prevent another great tragedy.The question in all of…

By Charles W. Johnson / Columnist I am fascinated with words. I always have been, or at least since I learned to talk, anyway. I developed a love of language early on, and in conjunction with that, a commiserate love of those wondrous repositories of words, books.My first-grade teacher, Mrs. Margaret Haston, was fond of…

From The Daily News Journal in Murfreesboro It’s not every day the governor literally flies into town.But that’s what happened this week when Phil Bredesen piloted a Diamond Star DA-40 into Murfreesboro Municipal Airport as part of Middle Tennessee State University’s new fleet.The university’s aerospace students will be able to train with 25 new planes,…