- You may remember all the hoopla of Metro City Councilman Eric Crafton’s die-hard effort to make English the official language of Nashville, which eventually got the big veto from Mayor Purcell. Well, he’s back with a vengeance, this time armed with a brand new website and some sort of postcard campaign set to drop next week. If he gets 10,103 signatures, it goes on the ballot in November. [City Paper]
- The Madison no-kill shelter Happy Endings may become the latest casualty of the Recession From Hell. The shelter, which has been finding homes for cute furry things for 11 years now, says its donors are no longer able to give like they have in the past and they’re running out of funds. [WSMV]
- Commissioners at Mount Pleasant’s City Hall laid the smack down last night at their City Council meeting. If only Metro’s meetings were that exciting, we might actually have a reason to watch Metro3 on Tuesdays. On second thought… [WTVF]
- Tennessee’s disaster response program has been given $17M to beef up communications. We were really excited at first because we thought it might help out with the whole dysfunctional-911 issue, but it looks like it’s just for large-scale disasters. [WSMV]
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