Daily Archives: March 11th, 2010
Happy Hour: Life As A Tent
- Nashville’s Tent City made the Wall Street Journal yesterday, just in time for Otter Creek’s Night Out for Tent City event tonight. [WSJ]
- Regardless of the fact that Rep. Jim Cooper canceled his appearance at West End Middle School, tea partiers have decided they’re going to protest outside the school anyway and even floated the idea of posing questions to a picture of Rep. Cooper in his absence. [In Session]
- The Titans’ season opener will be graced by the likes of Tim McGraw and the Black Eyed Peas. Not that we advocate these two artists sharing a stage in any way, but we do feel that it’s a nice follow-up to last year’s Keith Urban-Usher pairing. [WTVF]
- Thanks to all the convention center drama, Metro is hosting a public meeting next Monday, August 17th at 6pm to conduct some good, old-fashioned damage control. [City Paper]
- When we wrote about the new Silver Alert program for the elderly this morning, we didn’t realize that they nearly had to issue their first alert last night. [WKRN]
- The City of Franklin is shelling out a $2 million settlement for mistakenly accusing their solid waste director of looking at porn on a city computer two years ago. [Tennessean]
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Nashville’s Tent City made the Wall Street Journal yesterday, just in time for Otter Creek’s Night Out for Tent City event tonight. [WSJ]
Regardless of the fact that Rep. Jim Cooper canceled his appearance at West End Middle School, tea partiers have decided they’re going to protest outside the school anyway and even floated the idea [...]
Bright & Early: Rumor Mill Edition
Good morning, Nashville. Thanks to some confused protesters, Rep. Jim Cooper has canceled Friday’s public appearance at West End Middle School where he was supposed to welcome students back to school. Town hall meetings about healthcare reform have been happening all across the country, and somehow word hit the street that Rep. Cooper would be conducting a town hall of his own. Protests were planned, and in an effort to keep the first day of school disaster-free, he decided to ditch the event altogether.
- Silver Alert adopted. Tennessee became the 8th state to adopt a Silver Alert program to help locate elderly folks with Alzheimer’s Disease or dementia who might have wandered off. It works a lot like the Amber Alert system, with alerts being displayed on interstate signs.
- Debate ‘08. Belmont is seeing some significant enrollment increases as a result of the infamous Debate ‘08 that was held in the Curb Event Center last year. School officials say that enrollment exceeds 5,000 this year and many of the students first heard about the school on the teevee (thanks, SNL!)
- Bits & pieces. A local entertainment company will be producing a Hank Williams biopic to be filmed in Nashville … Nashville State Community College is seeing a record enrollment of over 8,000 students this year … News Channel 5 follows up on their investigative piece about the Music City Center.
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Good morning, Nashville. Thanks to some confused protesters, Rep. Jim Cooper has canceled Friday’s public appearance at West End Middle School where he was supposed to welcome students back to school. Town hall meetings about healthcare reform have been happening all across the country, and somehow word hit the street that Rep. Cooper would be [...]
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