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Happy Hour: Lights, Camera, Action
Belmont’s discrimination debacle landed them front and center on the New York Times’ website today. [NYTimes] Vandy finally landed a new football coach today. Former Maryland offensive coordinator James Franklin hopes to turn the team around after the two straight seasons of a 2-10 record. [Tennessean] Meanwhile in Murfreesboro, mosque opponents plan to keep on [...]
Bright & Early: A Drop In The Bucket Edition
Good morning, Nashville. Tennessee schools will have to wait a little while longer to find out if their standardized testing results were up to par with No Child Left Behind standards. Though they would typically know by now, the state recently did a massive overhaul of testing and scoring procedures because they believed the tests [...]
Bright & (Not So) Early: Where There’s Smoke Edition
Good morning, Nashville. We’re running behind this morning, so you know the drill: A fuel tanker went up in flames this morning at a Raceway gas station in Donelson. The explosion,which left the 68-year old driver severely burned, sent flames shooting 30 feet into the air according to witnesses. [WSMV] The Tennessee Hospitality Association finally [...]
Bright & Early: Shoot ‘Em Up Edition
Good morning, Nashville. As we mentioned yesterday, Murfreesboro, Clarksville, Brentwood, Williamson County and Goodlettsville have all opted out of the new state law that allows guns in public parks. Nashville’s Metro Council will be taking a look at its own opt-out ordinance at tonight’s meeting, or maybe not, because some council members are looking to [...]
Happy Hour: Skeletons In The Closet
This should make us all feel better: All of the rain has made some humain bones float into the Cumberland River, and those bones could apparently be 6,000 years old. Who the heck was in Tennessee 6,000 years ago besides the dinosaurs!? [WSMV] If you frequent the downtown YMCA, you may notice that it’s closed. [...]
Bright & Early: Back To Square One
Good morning, Nashville. We hate to keep harping on the Kingston ash spill, but the more we read about it, the more it blows our minds. While testifying before an environmental committee at the state legislature yesterday, TVA prez Tom Kilgore reiterated that the billion-gallon spill covered nearly 300 acres of land and was probably [...]
Happy Hour: Building Up The Arsenal
How could we pass up a headline like this?: “Steelers Unveil Secret Weapon: Martina McBride.” [WTVF] We’re happy to say that all 150 people on board the plane that crashed into the Hudson River right after take-off made it out safe and sound. [Tennessean] Probably a bad segue on our part, but Southwest is also [...]
Happy Hour: Nothing But Trouble
We know it’s easy to get bored in Cookeville, but Channel 4 is reporting a string of arson incidents that have sent 6 port-o-johns up in flames. Kids these days. [WSMV] Nashville Is Talking had us on the edge of our seats with a blow-by-blow account of a police chase down I-40 this morning. After [...]
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