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Bright & Early: A Bug’s Life Edition
Good morning, Nashville. We’re running behind this morning, so you know the drill. Here’s your abbreviated Bright & Early: For the 13th straight month, Tennessee’s sales tax revenues have shown some pretty significant growth. We’re also about $126 million ahead of sales tax revenue projections for this fiscal year, which ends in June. [WTVF] Way [...]
Bright & Early: #turnred Edition
Good morning, Nashville, and happy December. Today is World AIDS Day, which is a day to step back and think about the ways in which we can stop the spread of HIV/AIDS in our own community and around the world, and also how we can help the folks living with the disease. As of December [...]
Happy Hour: Common Trouble
A study by the Brookings Institution found that poverty in Nashville is growing at a rate about five times that of the national average. [City Paper] Oh yes, and we forgot to talk about the old-convention-center-soon-to-be-turned-medical-mart this morning. [WKRN] Titans center Kevin Mawae traveled to DC to speak before Congress today about some labor disputes [...]
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