Daily Archives: March 10th, 2010
Happy Hour: Wanna Get Away?
- Metro is looking for a way out of paying the $250,000 they owe to a man who was injured by a Public Works employee’s horseplay. The employee was trying to give a pedestrian a scare while driving a giant bulldozer and the pedestrian was startled enough that he leapt over a guard rail and hurt himself pretty badly. Metro was found to be at fault. [Tennessean]
- A section of the Emory River will be closed off for about a month while cleanup crews dredge it for coal ash from December’s Kingston spill. [Tennessean]
- Tonight marks Nashville’s 15th annual Night Out Against Crime. To find out what’s happening in your neighborhood, check out News Channel 5. [WTVF]
- The Salon Professional Academy is reaching out to potentially displaced GM employees by offering an unlimited number of $5,000 scholarships for those who may be laid off from the Spring Hill plant in the coming months. [Tennessean]
- The storms are back! Severe Thunderstorm Watch issued for Davidson and other parts of Middle Tennessee until 9pm tonight. [NashvilleWX]
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Metro is looking for a way out of paying the $250,000 they owe to a man who was injured by a Public Works employee’s horseplay. The employee was trying to give a pedestrian a scare while driving a giant bulldozer and the pedestrian was startled enough that he leapt over a guard rail and hurt [...]
Metro Shatters Convention Center PR Budget By… A Lot [Nashvillest Polls]
From the very beginning, plans for the new convention center have been met with a lot of resistance from folks who are concerned about the city taking on such a huge project in the midst of a sour economy. Supporters of the project insist that it’s an investment–we have to spend money to make money. At least part of the funding will come from taxes targeted at tourists to shift the burden off of local taxpayers. But how much is too much? This morning, a reader tipped us off to News Channel 5’s investigative report that made us do a bit of a double-take:
The politically connected firm McNeely, Pigott & Fox agreed to provide public relations services to the Metro Development and Housing Agency, which oversees the convention center project.
According to the original contract, spending was not supposed to exceed $75,000. Months after signing the contract, Metro deleted the “not to exceed” portion.
Now, spending has ballooned to more than $458,000.
The nearly half million dollar price tag has included a positive article in the Tennessean, help with speeches, keeping an eye on blogs, posting on internet forums, maintaining the website, Facebooking, and Twittering. According to the report, even councilwoman Emily Evans was a little shocked when a reporter showed her the latest figures, saying “If we’re not managing the contracts now, where are we going to be $500 million from now?” With this latest news, we wanted to give our readers the chance to sound off:
Loading ...From the very beginning, plans for the new convention center have been met with a lot of resistance from folks who are concerned about the city taking on such a huge project in the midst of a sour economy. Supporters of the project insist that it’s an investment–we have to spend money to make money. [...]
Bright & Early: Party Fowl Edition
Good morning, Nashville. The fight over urban chicken coops continues to escalate in the Metro Council with the introduction of a second bill that would make chickens legal and create some regulations to keep them under control. This comes on the heels of the the other chicken-related bill that would declare them illegal. Apparently keeping chickens is already a violation of zoning in most residential areas of Davidson County, and recent lawsuit brought the issue to the forefront. As an aside, the best part of this article pertains to a chicken advocate named Jud Laughter who has four chickens named John, Paul, George and Ringo. We did not make this up.
- Milestones. Congratulations to the Nashville Area Chamber of Commerce, which just won the Chamber of the Year award from whomever doles out those sorts of things. The victory was due in part to the Nashville For All Of Us campaign against the English language ordinance.
- More milestones. Tennessee 511, TDOT’s road condition/weather/Amber Alert hotline, received its 2-millionth call yesterday. The service launched in August 2006.
- Bits & pieces. Sherri Goforth, the Senate staffer who was busted for sending out a racist email about President Obama, still isn’t back at work … 236 people really, really want a say in the new Judicial Nominating Commission … Four months after John Bryant’s wife and baby were killed in the Murfreesboro tornado, WSMV checks in on his recovery … Clarksville commissioners are hiking taxes to allocate more funding for nonprofits.
Photo by Grey Street Girl.
Good morning, Nashville. The fight over urban chicken coops continues to escalate in the Metro Council with the introduction of a second bill that would make chickens legal and create some regulations to keep them under control. This comes on the heels of the the other chicken-related bill that would declare them illegal. Apparently keeping [...]
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