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Bright & Early: Letter Of The Law Edition

Good morning, Nashville, and happy July! July 1st is that magical day when all those new laws take effect that were debated and passed in this year’s legislative session. Among this year’s laws are the removal of the one-year age limit on a child being breastfed in public, a crackdown on obscene bumperstickers (to our [...]

Bright & Early: Public Is The New Private Edition

Good morning, Nashville. Rumors started flying on Twitter last night about Metro posting the personal information of dozens of flood victims, including full bank account numbers, on the public website for Davidson County property records. Once Metro officials were alerted to the problem, they immediately took the information offline. It turns out that 68 flood [...]

Bright & Early: Letter Of The Law Edition

Good morning, Nashville. The Tennessee Supreme Court plans to roll out a new program called Justice For All Tennessee, which aims to make affordable legal resources and representation available to a wider demographic of people. Currently, there are a few organizations and resources in place that serve folks who couldn’t otherwise afford legal help, but [...]

Happy Hour: Find Your Own Way

If you’re one of the few and the proud who still use these things we call “paper maps,” the 2010 Tennessee map is now available online for free from TDOT. [City Paper] That Blue Cross Blue Shield hard drive theft was worse than folks originally thought, and now BCBS is sending out an additional 447,549 [...]

Happy Hour: Flap Those Wings

Now less than a month away, the nightly lineups for CMApocalypse 2010 have been released and we really need to get to work on this year’s bingo card. [WKRN] The dreaded air quality alerts are back! [Tennessean] There is an actual delegation of US State Department officials who have been sent over to Russia to [...]

Bright & Early: Ghost Town Edition

Good morning, Nashville. After a long weekend of waiting, the 2,500 employees at the Spring Hill GM plant were told this morning that the plant will be halting production indefinitely as a part of the company’s restructuring. GM filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection this morning, and although that probably doesn’t come as much of [...]

Ask Mr. Tim: Don’t Breathe Unless You Have To

Even if you didn’t catch the smog hanging around downtown last month, you’ve probably noticed all the air quality alerts broadcast on huge signs over the interstate this summer. When we realized we had no idea what that meant, we decided to ask the expert–Channel 4 meteorologist Tim Ross. It’s no secret that Nashvillest loves [...]

Bright & Early: Those Were The Days Edition

Good morning, Nashville. Unless you’re really, really new to town, you probably remember seeing at least one big show come through the Starwood Amphitheatre out in Antioch. We were all pretty sad to hear the news that it was shutting down last February and some did their best to save it, but the land was [...]