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Bright & Early: Parks & Rec Edition

22 October 2009 | 9:45 am
Author: Christy Frink

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 [...]

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Happy Hour: Let The Backpedalling Begin

17 August 2009 | 6:20 pm
Author: Christy Frink

PR firm McNeely Piggot & Fox, which has been in some hot water recently for their convention center contract, has resigned from the project altogether. Though they still maintain that coverage of the kerfuffle has been “misleading,” the resignation letter stated that they felt the convention center project was too important to be sidetracked by [...]

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Hold The Phones: Texting While Driving Ban (And Some Other Stuff) In Effect Today

1 July 2009 | 7:00 am
Author: Morgan Levy

Folks, today’s the day. Today is the day that the texting while driving ban officially hits the books, much to the chagrin of chronic crackberry-ers and speedy T9-ers alike. You all voiced some strong opinions about the ban a couple months ago, and the day of judgement has arrived.
Now that texting while driving is illegal, [...]

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Bright & (Not So) Early: The Way Of The Buffalo Edition

18 June 2009 | 10:06 am
Author: Christy Frink

Good morning, Nashville. We’re running a little late this morning, so here’s your abbreviated Bright & Early:

The big news from the Capitol this morning is that the House and Senate have agreed on a $29.6 million budget and sent it to Governor Phil for consideration. [WTVF]
Pith peels back a few layers of the controversial May [...]

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Bright & Early: An Apple A Day Edition

17 June 2009 | 9:30 am
Author: Christy Frink

Good morning, Nashville. Several members of Congress are a little less than pleased with VA officials after yesterday’s testimony in which officials admitted that their hospitals still aren’t following proper procedures for cleaning medical equipment. You may remember that the problems were first uncovered Alvin C. York Medical Center in Murfreesboro in December 2008 and [...]

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Nashvillest Guide To Dining Out & Doing It Cheap

8 April 2009 | 3:00 pm
Author: Morgan Levy

Though there are many websites that exist to help cut dining costs by passing out tips & pointers on what foods to order, what times to visit, what coupons to bring, what specials to request and what entrees to split, that’s just not us. We’re all about pinching pennies, but we like to enjoy a [...]

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Bright & Early: The White Stuff Edition

28 January 2009 | 9:50 am
Author: Christy Frink

Good morning, Nashville. We hope you’re enjoying a day at home with the kiddos, but if you’re like us, you probably had to go into work anyway. Looks pretty out the window though, right? While forecasters originally predicted 1-2 inches of snow, it seems this storm is only going to last long enough to disrupt [...]

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Happy Hour: When It Rains, It Pours

18 December 2008 | 5:51 pm
Author: Christy Frink

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 [...]

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