Good morning, Nashville. By now, we’re all pretty familiar with the Guns in Bars bill saga, which was passed by the state legislature and vetoed by Governor Phil and then passed again over the course of the past two weeks. A similar bill that would allow guns in public parks is also well on its way to becoming the law in Tennessee, but Nashville’s Metro Council–rebels that they are–have already threatened to create a law of their own making it illegal to pack heat in Metro’s parks if the statewide bill should pass. One of the potential sponsors, Councilman at-large Jerry Maynard, went as far as to call the Guns in Parks bill “horrible public policy.” He continues, “The day the governor signs it, that same day I’m filing legislation to outlaw it locally.”
- MNPS backs down. After staring down a nasty lawsuit from the ACLU, Metro Schools have followed in the footsteps of Knox County and unblocked GLBT-themed websites on school computers. Students originally complained that the schools were blocking informative sites like the Human Rights Campaign and Dignity USA while allowing them to access other sites that address “fixing” or changing homosexuality.
- Oops? A 21-year old guy was picked up at a traffic stop in Nashville, determined to be an undocumented immigrant, and then shipped out to Mexico as a part of the 287(g) immigration enforcement program. Problem is, he’s a US citizen and hadn’t been to Mexico since he was 5.
- Bits & pieces. The city of Lebanon are thinking about suing Dell for cutting almost 500 jobs … A couple of dueling protests are slated to happen outside of Planned Parenthood in north Nashville tomorrow … In a rare bout of profundity, the TVA’s chairman declared yesterday that a coal ash spill like the one in Kingston “must never happen again” … TDOT is closing I-40 again this weekend, but just the westbound side.
A year ago on Nashvillest: We showed you how to make the best of CMApocalypse 2008, learned about the dangers of the CMA fest by watching WKRN’s Brad Schmitt get accosted by a staffer and savagely beaten by a small child with some inflatable sticks, and took lots of pictures of green things.
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