Nashvillest

Good morning, Nashville. Davidson County has become a hotspot for rooting out and arresting undocumented immigrants, but whenever we arrest them, we have to ship them out to the closest federal immigration court all the way in Memphis. Sheriff Daron Hall is hoping to fix that by flying out to DC to ask the feds to give us an immigration court of our own, explaining that “Nashville is processing more [immigrants] than any other city, other than California and Phoenix, Arizona.” Wonder where California falls on the list of America’s 25 largest cities.

• Keeping us safe. Ever since the Epic Sign Collapse of ‘08 on I-65 out in Cool Springs last week, TDOT has been running around inspecting every sign like it in Tennessee. Lucky for us, they found that one of the signs by Brentwood had two broken bolts out of eight, which they promptly took down. We still say it was the squirrels.
• Oops! A computer glitch at a Clarksville US Bank had 9,000 people in Clarksville notified that they had defaulted on their mortgages. Trouble is, none of them actually had.
• Bits & pieces. Williamson County will be footing the bill for identity protection for the 5,200 students whose social security numbers were accidentally posted on the internet last summer … At least someone’s benefiting from the crappy economy: Sales at Middle Tennessee’s Goodwill stores are up … So far we’ve gotten almost double the rainfall that we had last year in the month of July.

Photo by DCMatt.