Happy Hour: Revenge Of The Crack Tax

August 3, 2009 6:00 PM 7 comments

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  • The gentleman responsible for getting our state’s crack tax overturned is now filing a class-action suit against the state to get back the money that was collected under the law, which is apparently over $10 million. [Tennessean]
  • A new study shows that 1/5 of the folks caught driving drunk will be caught again for the same offense. [Tennessean]
  • The Contributor, a paper produced by Nashville’s homeless community and advocates, won a national award over the weekend. [WPLN]
  • Speaking of newspapers, you might’ve noticed a new one gracing the stands: the Nashville Retrospect newspaper. Like its name implies, it posts articles and pictures from Nashville in decades past. [WPLN]
  • Some unlikely businesses are starting to take food stamps to keep business up now that more folks are using them. [WKRN]

Photo by stephaniedshepherd.

  • crackerjackheart

    I like the idea of the Nashville Retrospect thing, but wouldn't it make more sense as a website? Is it just all ads on the inside?

  • http://herdofsteph.blogpost.com/ stephanie

    Thanks for posting my meerkat picture – I did a doubletake in my feed reader when I saw it. :)

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Stephen-Yeargin/184101999 Stephen Yeargin

    A newspaper that covers old news? We already have one of those. It's called The Tennessean.

  • http://nashvillest.com Christy Frink

    Yeah, you would think so. I think the inside has actual articles, but it may only be a four-page deal.

  • http://nashvillest.com Christy Frink

    Thanks for dropping it in the pool! We love us some meerkats :)

  • http://nashvillest.com Christy Frink

    Haha, awful. Morgan and I saw the Nashville Retrospect thing on a news stand at a coffee shop and were a little confused as to why you'd start a novelty print publication like that when actual print news publications aren't even doing well. But hey, I'll be curious to see where it goes.

  • manundso2

    If you were lucky enough to see the story news channel 5 did on the food stamp expansion maybe you notice a few things I noticed

    1) A woman pulled her food stamps card out of a Luis Vuitton wallet.

    2) A woman (could have been the same one who knows) loaded up her food stamp groceries into the back of a very nice new SUV. (maybe an Tahoe or Escalade or something)

    am I reading too much into this?