Morning Links: 19 April 2007

New Life International's plans for luxury development on Monteagle Mountain opposed, disturbing settlement from America Service Group subsidiary, PassAlong Networks finishes $10 million funding round, and more...

Brentwood-based non-profit New Life International faces opposition to its plans to build an 800-home luxury development on 1,500 wooded acres between Monteagle and Sewanee

America Service Group subsidiary Prison Health Services pays $1.25 million to settle lawsuit brought by a Florida inmate — woman’s baby died after being born over a jail cell toilet at a facility where Prison Health provided health care

Winthrop Realty Trust acquires 13 Nashville industrial properties for more than $87 million — purchase totals 1.2 million square-feet

Gaylord to sell RQI Holdings, owner of the company’s ResortQuest Hawaii, to Interval International

Franklin’s PassAlong Networks completes its latest $10 million round of funding — to date the company has raised approximately $35 million

Small-cap stock picker names Nashville-based restaurant chain J. Alexander's as a bargain investment (full disclosure: Solidus Co., a major shareholder of J. Alexander's, is the majority owner of Nashville Post Co.)

O'Charley's receives shareholder proposal from William C. Thompson, comptroller for the city of New York, urging the compay to declassify its board and have directors stand for annual elections -- recently LifePoint Hospitals received a simliar proposal from its own activist shareholder [added 11:35 a.m.]

Creditor of Brentwood's Evolved Digital agrees to push back the forebearance agreement with the troubled company to April 26 -- previously the deadline had been April 2 [added 11:30 a.m.]

And finally, Brentwood and Nashville both make Relocate-America’s list of the top 100 places to live in America