All you ever wanted to know about the Music City.

RSS FEED

Tag Archives: bna

Happy Hour: Moderation Is Key

Tennessee’s Chief Medical Examiner was busted for felony marijuana possession today while staying at a hotel in Mississippi. Predictably, the state immediately terminated his contract and he’s on 90-day suspension as Chief Medical Examiner for the city of Nashville. [WKRN]
Another reminder that DUI checkpoints have been set up around the city today. No, this does [...]

Bright & Early: Everything Old Is New Again Edition

Good morning, Nashville. Over the past few months, we’ve been hearing quite a bit of speculation about what’s going to happen to the dilapidated Bellevue Center Mall. Last we heard, city officials were thinking of turning it into a magnet school which apparently prompted a flood of mail from constituents who thought that was the [...]

Bright & Early: Ready Set Fight Edition

Good morning, Nashville. Metro school officials are kicking around a couple of ideas for making up the last snow day, which was not actually a snow day because they’re out of those. For some reason, just every other school system in the midstate builds in anywhere from 10-12 snow days and they all seem to [...]

Bright & Early: He Sees You When You’re Sleeping Edition

Good morning, Nashville. Yesterday brought us an entertaining-but-sort-of-scary tale of Santa robbing a local bank at gunpoint (and the pictures… oh, the pictures!) We’re happy to be able to balance it out this morning with another Christmas-y story, only this one involves a mysterious woman handing out Christmas cards containing $100 to random strangers in [...]

Bright & (Not So) Early: Ars Gratia Artis Edition

Good morning, Nashville, and happy almost Turkey Day! This morning, we’re giving thanks for our city’s public art, which Councilman Charlie Tygard has declared that he would like to spread around to the rest of Nashville by filing an ordinance with the Metro Council. This sentiment isn’t sitting well with members of the Metro Arts [...]

Bright & Early: They’re Baaack Edition

Good morning, Nashville. Remember that whole Bible Park USA debacle in Rutherford County a long time ago? Developers of the Bible theme park were eventually defeated when the city voted against the rezoning that would’ve allowed them to build. Last week, the Tennessee Court of Appeals overturned the decision because of some shady clauses in [...]

Bright & Early: Parks & Rec Edition

Good morning, Nashville. Metro officials are trying to figure out how the Parks & Recreation managed to go $1 million over budget without anyone realizing it before it was too late. The city had to make some pretty expensive repairs courtesy of a lightning strike back in the summer, and they also decided to keep [...]

Bright & (Not So) Early: Perry County Appreciation Edition

Good morning, Nashville. It’s been a while since we’ve checked in with Perry County–the folks about 90 miles southwest of us whose unemployment rate hit 27% in January of this year. Thanks to a stimulus program that creates positions within existing businesses and pays their wages and benefits directly, they seem to be on the [...]

Bright & Early: Hands Off Edition

Good morning, Nashville. In case you missed it yesterday, police are on the lookout for a 5′6″, 140 lb. Hispanic man who’s been grabbing women’s butts as they jog along Belmont Boulevard. Based on the reports received so far, it seems to be happening between 5am and 6:30am, and the man lurks in his white [...]

Bright & Early: The More You Know Edition

Good morning, Nashville. We may be seeing calorie information on restaurant menus after all, since Governor Phil vetoed a bill yesterday that would’ve reversed the Metro Board of Health’s decision to require it a few months ago. And why did he veto it? Because our state is looking at a 30% obesity rate and the [...]