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Bright & Early: All Is Fair Edition
Good morning, Nashville. The Tennessee State Fair and Fairgrounds have been in constant limbo for the past year or so with Mayor Dean proposing to shut it down by the first of July, then extending the closing date to the end of the year with various groups fighting to keep it around as a 104-year [...]
Bright & (Not So) Early: 14:59 Edition
Good morning, Nashville. We’re running behind this morning, as we are still sort of scraping ourselves off the floor from last night’s Basil Manceaux debate. So here is your abbreviated Bright & Early: The Metro Health Department is offering free vaccinations for all Davidson County kids who are going back to school next week. [WTVF] [...]
Bright & Early: Keep On Singin’ Edition
Good morning, Nashville. Metro is looking at an ordinance that would throw some additional flood recovery money at Gaylord; the only catch is that it can only be used to fix the Grand Ole Opry House and not the Opryland Hotel. While the damage estimate for the hotel is about 10 times that of the [...]
Bright & Early: Donuts On The Brain Edition
Good morning, Nashville, and happy Donut Day! Things got pretty tense at last night’s Metro Council meeting, where council members interrogated Metro Schools officials about their plan to lay off 600 custodians and 24 office workers in addition to doling out significant pay cuts to bus drivers. The plan, which will save MNPS an estimated [...]
Hickory Hollow Mall: An Endangered Species [Mixed Reviews By People Who Don't Live Here]
Another day, another national ranking. Today we observe as Hickory Hollow Mall is included in America’s 10 Most Endangered Malls by US News, citing the departure of a few pretty much every chain store as the reason for slapping on the “endangered species” title. Hickory Hollow has an 82% occupancy rate (which seems kind of [...]
To The Guy Behind Me Picking His Nose… [Gems From The Nashville Craigslist]
To the guy picking his nose in the black Ford behind me: Stop it. – 99 (Nashville) Yesterday, while at a red light on Bell Road, I caught you in my rearview mirror. You were trying to remove an obstruction, possibly grape or grapefruit-sized from your left nostril. I don’t know if you could [...]
Bright & Early: All Uphill From Here Edition
Good morning, Nashville. Changes are in store for the Davidson County Sheriff’s Department after some deputies kept an undocumented immigrant woman in handcuffs while she went into labor and delivered her baby earlier this summer. Known for his tough stance on illegal immigration, Sheriff Daron Hall says they were just trying to do their job [...]
Happy Hour: Don’t You Know That It’s Toxic
We’ve officially arrived at “big city” status, y’all. We have smog. [Nashville WX] Along with the smog comes the West Nile Virus, discovered today in some Antioch mosquitoes. Raise your hand if you’re staying inside this weekend. [City Paper] A bomb squad successfully dismantled a grenade that someone tossed through the window of a Clarksville [...]
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