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Bright & Early: Feeling Viral Edition
Good morning, Nashville. Last Friday, McGavock High School math teacher Donald Wood had a meltdown during class in which he threw some tables, screamed a lot and admitted to starting a fire in the school bathroom one time. Wood was subdued and carted off in an ambulance, but not before one enterprising student caught the [...]
Bright & Early: Falling Slowly Edition
Good morning, Nashville. We’re behind this morning, so here’s your abbreviated Bright & Early: Fall starts today! We have no idea why it’s supposed to be 94 degrees outside as that is not how fall works, but then again, this is Tennessee. [Nashville WX] Once upon a time, someone found an alligator in Dickson, so [...]
Bright & Early: Lovers’ Quarrel Edition
Good morning, Nashville. It’s been a long time (though probably not long enough) since we’ve heard about Nashville’s favorite celeb John Rich doing something ridiculous, but yesterday he finally turned himself in to face some assault and harassment charges filed against him by former Nashville Star contestant Jared Ashley. Ashley has been claiming for a [...]
Happy Hour: If A Tree Falls In A Forest…
The Tennessean reports on Mayor Dean’s trail of destruction downtown on Deadrick St.: “Startled passers-by are stopping to stare at the tree carcasses lying across the sidewalk.” [Tennessean] Speaking of tree carcasses, the Great Middle Tennessee Drought Of ’08 has taken at least one Christmas tree farm out of commission. [WRKN] We may still have [...]
Bright & Early: Politics As Usual Edition
Good morning, Nashville. Looks like we’re almost out of the woods with the Great Nashville Gas Crisis of Aught Eight. And after watching Mayor Dean casually shrug off the problem and tell us that we just needed to chill the heck out, we were actually happy to hear what Governor Phil admit that there was, [...]
Bright & Early: Dressed For Success Edition
Good morning, Nashville. For all the squabbling that happened when Metro schools adopted school uniforms, it sounds like they’ve actually helped make the schools safer. Major incidents of violence and assault were down significantly last year, though the number of smaller conflicts were way up in high schools. No one has proven that the uniforms [...]
Bright & Early: Waterworld Edition
Good morning, Nashville. We hear the folks in Franklin are running out of water. Turns out that while Georgia was down there distracting us with horrific tales of Bigfoot sightings, they were also making mad dashes across the border and carting our water out by the bucket. Okay, maybe not. Officials are actually saying that [...]
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