Bright & Early: Tennessee Shuffle Edition
Good morning, Nashville. Last night brought some big news on the Tennessee political front with 30-year U.S. Rep. John Tanner deciding not to run for reelection in 2010. Within a matter of hours, Tennessee state senator Roy Herron dropped his bid for governor and announced that he’s running for Tanner’s congressional seat instead. Up until last night, Sen. Herron was one of the Democratic front-runners in the gubernatorial race and now no one really knows what’s going on. But hey, that’s Tennessee politics for you.
- Tennessee might lose out on some federal money (and by “some” we mean a few million dollars) because our system for tracking sex offenders isn’t up to snuff according to new federal standards. The good(ish?) news is that 48 other states are in the same boat.
- Metro council members passed up the opportunity to vote on a new ordinance that would’ve allowed guns in a few small rural parks despite the earlier ordinance they passed to ban guns from parks.
- Bits & pieces. Nashville Shores is getting a lazy river and a wave pool, but no roller coasters since being purchased by some former Six Flags execs … The Convention & Visitors Bureau is now training our taxi drivers on how to make acceptable smalltalk … In addition to capping CoverKids enrollment, the state also capped CoverTN … “Kid tries to buy beer, fails at 27 businesses.”
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