• PSA: It’s the week of the NFL Draft in Nashville , so expect increased traffic and road closures. WeGo has published a guide for anyone riding public transit this week.
• Most of your Nashvillest staff will be avoid downtown like the plague, but you can read more about the city’s preparations for the big event from WPLN.
• If you were hoping to ride an electric scooter around to the NFL Draft events, you are going to be disappointed. In reading this story, we realized we missed that Gotcha has launched in Nashville.
• The Nashville area’s population growth is slowing, down from about 100 people per day to 83 in 2018 according to the US Census Bureau. Data includes the surrounding counties and Murfreesboro.
• Vice Mayor Jim Shulman has drawn a challenger in this August’s election, facing off with fellow council member Erica Gilmore. Gilmore ran unsuccessfully last year for mayor, finishing a distant third with 5.6 percent of the vote.
• Bob Mendes, an at-large council member, shared a list of second (and sometimes third) jobs held by staff at McGavock High School to illustrate the need to raise teacher pay.
• A man has been accused of using a fake $100 bill to buy an obscure vinyl record at Third Man, and then trying to return the record for presumably non-counterfeit cash.
• Nashville Mayor David Briley spoke at the Earth Day celebration in Centennial Park this weekend, highlighting the city’s effort in conservation and energy efficiency.
• We’ll let the headline tell the whole story here: Police: Naked 67-year-old stranger found drinking juice in North Nashville home. ?
• The landfill where most of Nashville’s trash goes in Murfreesboro could close in the next eight or nine years, leaving the city to truck it farther away to another community, perhaps into Kentucky. Municipal waste is typically shipped to rural communities.
• The Nashville Predators face elimination from the Stanley Cup Playoffs tonight on the road in Game 6 against the Dallas Stars following a 5-3 loss at home Saturday afternoon. If the Predators win, Game 7 will be back in Nashville Wednesday night.
• Game 5 anthem singer Gavin Degraw hit all the right notes Saturday, then hit the ice after he was was done. ?
• A Federal Court of Appeals ruled that the tiny houses built by the Glencliff United Methodist Church and the nonprofit Open Table were protected as an expression of religion and not subject to zoning rules. Neighborhood groups had sought to prevent the church from building them on its property for the homeless.
• In weird conspiracy theory news, fans of artist Taylor Swift (she sure does keep being in the news lately) are convinced that new Gulch mural is a thinly veiled reference to her upcoming album because it happens to have the number 13 and 7 incorporated into it.
• Workers at Deja Vu Showgirls are shown on a viral video helping a homeless woman on Easter Sunday. The manager says it is something the staff does throughout the year.

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