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Bright & Early: Recycle, Reduce, Reuse Edition
Good morning, Nashville. City officials are busy trying to find ways to coerce our city to recycle more. Currently 67% of Nashvillians participate in the curbside recycling program, which isn’t too shabby, but the Dean administration wants to find out why the other third isn’t recycling. Typically, the rate of participation in a recycling program [...]
Bright & Early: Why Not Wine Edition
Good morning, Nashville. The controversial issue of allowing wine to be sold in grocery stores is certainly not a new one, but lawmakers and advocates are taking a slightly different approach this year. The current bill moving through the legislature would give individual counties the opportunity to vote on the issue as early as August. [...]
Happy Hour: Cold Snap
In case you didn’t read about it everywhere else on the internet, Arlington, TN Mayor Russell Wiseman was a little upset about missing out on the Charlie Brown Christmas special and had some choice things to say about President Obama, on Facebook. [Tennessean]
Just a few days after Tennessee capped enrollment in the CoverKids program for [...]
Bright & Early: Tennessee Shuffle Edition
Good morning, Nashville. Last night brought some big news on the Tennessee political front with 30-year U.S. Rep. John Tanner deciding not to run for reelection in 2010. Within a matter of hours, Tennessee state senator Roy Herron dropped his bid for governor and announced that he’s running for Tanner’s congressional seat instead. Up until [...]
Bright & Early: It’s A Gamble Edition
Good morning, Nashville. Governor Phil is still working on figuring out which Very Important Parts of the State Budget will need to be cut in order to make ends meet this year. A few days ago, we heard him consider eliminating funding for neighborhood clinics or just ending all state-sponsored health care programs altogether; yesterday, [...]
Bright & Early: Catchup Edition
Good morning, Nashville. Happy Monday-after-Thanksgiving! We’re running late this morning, so you know the drill: Here is your abbreviated Bright & Early:
Starting today, CoverKids–Tennessee’s health insurance program for uninsured kids–is capping new enrollments because the state has run out of money to fund them. Though this won’t affect the 44,000 kids already enrolled, it means [...]
Bright & Early: The Vaccine Is Here Edition
Good morning, Nashville. Starting this morning, the Metro Nashville Health Department is giving out free H1N1 flu vaccines to the general public. Though they originally planned to save the first 4,900 doses for healthcare professionals, only 64 actually showed up yesterday. Officials are recommending that kids and young adults receive it first since they’re the [...]
Happy Hour: It’s Beginning To Look A Lot Like Christmas
We think it’s a little excessive that the Opryland Hotel started stringing Christmas lights today, but who wouldn’t get excited with all those exclamation points? If only it were actually snowing. [WTVF]
Also excessive was this afternoon’s big ribbon cutting ceremony for the new security check-point at the Nashville International Airport, attended by Mayor Dean. [WKRN]
While [...]
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