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Happy Hour: Drink Up, Me ‘Earties, Yo Ho
Well, Tennessee’s unemployment rate is now 10.7%, which is the highest it’s been since November 1983. Beer us, please. [WSMV]
In an effort not to see that rate skyrocket in the coming months, Governor Phil put in the bid to GM in hopes that they’ll bring the manufacturing of that new car to the Spring Hill [...]
Bright & Early: To Rezone Or Not To Rezone Edition
Good morning, Nashville. The Most Dramatic School Rezoning Plan Ever has hit yet another snag, but this one might actually deal the fatal blow. The plan has been in the works for over a year now, and lots of folks have criticized it because they say that it resegregates all the poor kids to the [...]
Bright & Early: Here’s A Llama, There’s A Llama Edition
Good morning, Nashville. In case you didn’t catch Governor Phil’s budget talk last night (it’s okay, we didn’t either), he announced a few pretty-big-but-predictable changes that will be happening over the next few years and will hopefully make the state a little less broke than we are right now. Overall, he wants to scale back [...]
Bright & Early: Pink Slip Thursday Edition
Good morning, Nashville. This is how we hate to start the morning, but layoff news just keeps rolling in. This time, we’ve come full circle to another round of state job cuts. You might remember the first round of buyouts and layoffs back in June where about 2,300 state employees lost their jobs, and this [...]
Happy Hour: This Is When It Gets Ugly
Following the joint press conference with Mayor Dean and Gov. Bredesen this morning, Loews Vanderbilt Hotel owner and Nashville For All Of Us leader Tom Negri was nearly run over by a woman who was trying to steal an anti-English Only yard sign from outside the election commission. Police were called, but the woman was [...]
Happy Hour: When It Rains, It Pours
Former Senator Rosalind Kurita, whose state senate seat fell victim to a nasty heist by her own party a few months back, is now being slapped with $6,000 in fines for various campaign finance violations. Not exactly a banner year. [WTVF]
The Tennessean almost gives us its top photos of the year, which would have been [...]
Bright & Early: Doodling The Day Away Edition
Good morning, Nashville. Just when we think things are starting to get dull around here, we find out that in between slicing and dicing the state budget, Governor Phil has been doodling around. Literally. We’d heard about his recent interview with Esquire magazine about what he’d learned in his life (you know, don’t schedule things [...]
Bright & Early: We’ve Got High Hopes Edition
Good morning, Nashville. Governor Phil thinks Tennessee has great potential to become the next Silicon Valley–of green companies? You can’t blame us for being just a little bit skeptical, but the governor has been working hard to encourage businesses to use Energy Star-rated appliances, draw some alternative energy producers to the state, and figure out [...]
Happy Hour: Lies, Lies, Lies
We were about to tell you that the Tennessean lied to us today when they told us we wouldn’t see any snow accumulation, but then we realized they did that whole thing where they switch out the story after they realize it’s inaccurate. As of now, the Nashvillest HQ is blanketed in white. [Tennessean]
Someone was [...]
Happy Hour: In Which We Tighten Our Belts
Governor Phil, for whom we have a new-found respect after learning that he doesn’t accept a salary, will be severely scaling back his holiday party since Tennessee’s economy (along with the other 49 states) is in pretty dire straits. [Tennessean]
Not all the Titans are celebrating this week–defensive tackle Albert Haynesworth is looking at a 30-day [...]
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