Good morning, Nashville. The presidential debate gods are raining on Belmont’s parade this year, as it’s looking like that town hall debate they’ve been getting everyone all worked up about may not be the only one of its kind. It was originally set to be the third of three debates to take place between the candidates, but now McCain is going all over-achiever on us and challenging Obama to ten town hall-style debates. If that happens, Belmont’s afraid that no one is going to care enough to watch town hall debate #11 when it rolls around in October.
- Conventional questions. Things are getting underway with the new convention center and the city is saying they want our input–they just haven’t figured out how. They’re also not sure how much it’ll set them back to have NES move the downtown substation to accommodate the new structure since estimates have been anywhere from $1M to $50M.
- Empty jackpots. The Tennessee lottery has been peddling lottery tickets for jackpots that have already been won. They say it’s because it takes so long to go around and pick up the extra tickets once the game is over, so they’ve come up with a new system of keeping one jackpot open from every game until all tickets have been collected, then drawing from the losing tickets.
- Bits & pieces. Ronnie McDowell wrote a song about gas prices and everybody loves it … March and candlelight vigil planned tonight for 18-year old gunned down at Nolensville car wash … Nebraska is trying to poison everyone with their beef; Kroger issues a recall … Jon and Jodi Roda and their 5 month-old triplets of steel were hit head-on by a drunk driver in Hermitage and made it out totally unscathed.
Photo by Paul Chenoweth.
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