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Bright & Early: Monkeying Around Edition
Good morning, Nashville. The USDA is finally charging Vanderbilt University “a hefty fine” for the dead baby monkey that turned up in a washing machine. Apparently the monkey was a research subject in a university lab when someone washed the nesting boxes and forgot to take the monkey out first. Of course! The fine includes charges for [...]
Happy Hour: Sound The Horn
Preds top-scoring forward Patrick Hornqvist was signed to a brand new 3-year contract today and the hockey fans among us couldn’t be happier. [Tennesseans] Along with all the road closures beginning to pop up around the Music City Center construction site, 5th Ave. will be closed between Demonbreun and Franklin forever (forever = 2 to [...]
Happy Hour: It’s All A Blur
Students at Thurgood Marshall Middle, Andrew Jackson Elementary and AZ Kelley Elementary had a very hot first full day back after some pop-up storms took out their A/C overnight. [WKRN] The Davidson County Election Commission found another voting machine that hadn’t been tallied and now Douglas Henry only leads Jeff Yarbro by 11 votes. As [...]
Happy Hour: Birds Flying High
So that storm was a doozy, eh? Three big lightning strikes were enough to take down the city’s 911 dispatching system, or most of it, leaving operators to record calls by pen and paper. [WTVF] Organizers are now taking questions for Mike McWherter and Bill Haslam’s September 14th debate, so send ‘em some good ones [...]
Happy Hour: Speed Of Sound
Twitter has been all a-buzz (can we say that?) about the high-speed rail between Nashville and Atlanta that’s in the works. We’ve heard this story before, but it sounds like they’ve already secured $14 MILLION in federal funding for the project. The contractor is looking to grab another $34 million to get the job done [...]
Happy Hour: Expanding The Empire
Welcome to Davidson County, Lakewood? Even if you did only decide to join us by one vote. [WSMV] And we thought we’d have an answer by now, but the Yarbro-Henry Senate primary is still too close to call. At last count, Douglas Henry was winning by three votes. [WKRN] The emergency dispatcher responsible for waiting [...]
Happy Hour: Shady Business
A Metro police officer was indicted today for operating a gun-smuggling operation along with four other men to supply Guatemalan drug cartels with weapons. He could face up to 10 years in prison, up to $1 million in fines, and possibly deportation because he’s a naturalized citizen. [WPLN] The Tennessee Higher Education Commission is reporting [...]
Bright & Early: Hugging Some Trees Edition
Good morning, Nashville. If you’re coming in late in the game, you may not remember all the talk about creating a “second downtown” in the Bells Bend area, which is currently a rural space in West Nashville. The proposed May Town Center, touted as “a town, within a park, within a city,” (creepy Utopian-looking video [...]
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