- The pants-sagging bill that we first started hearing about back in February has passed its first committee and is slated to be voted on again next week. We can’t be sure, but it seems like Rep. Joe Towns (D-Memphis) reeeaalllly doesn’t want to see “the cracks of our butts.” [WTVF]
- The Metro Beer Board confiscated some fancy tobacco pipes from a local store owner after they were “shocked” to see that the pipes depicted “a couple in a compromising position.” Though the store owner was peddling them purely for fun, he ended up being fined $150. [WSMV]
- Tennessee’s Department of Environment & Conservation says that Sumner County isn’t meeting the EPA’s air quality standards, and surprise! They’re blaming the TVA. [WSMV]
- Speaking of, they just started dredging all the nasty fly ash that ended up in the Emory River as a result of the Kingston spill, and some folks are worried that the dredging could stir up some of Oak Ridge’s possibly-radioactive mess that is apparently also at the bottom of the river. [Pith In The Wind]
- Woohoo, our unemployment rate in Davidson County just got a little bit worse! We’ll drink to that. [Tennessean]
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