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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 [...]
Happy Hour: Priorities, Priorities
The kind folks at the Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee have established a Haiti Earthquake Response Fund for the purpose of channeling local donations to reputable aid groups in need of financial resources to help with the disaster relief. [Nashville Is Talking]
In the midst of all this global need, we are very, very comforted by [...]
Bright & (Not So) Early: Aftermath Edition
Good morning, Nashville. By now, we’re sure everyone has heard about the massive earthquake that struck Haiti yesterday. Eight Nashvillians were in Haiti doing mission work at the time and survived, notifying church members and friends back home by text message. Congressman Jim Cooper is working closely with the State Department to identify and locate [...]
Bright & Early: Crushing Our Dreams Edition
Good morning, Nashville. A white Christmas is looking a little less likely as we get closer to the holiday. We’ve been reading all sorts of fancy explanations of the impending storm system over the past several days, but now it looks like the weather just isn’t going to be cold enough for more than a [...]
Bright & Early: Paper Trails Edition
Good morning, Nashville. Despite a major setback in court this week, the fight continues for the statewide implementation of voter-verified paper ballots. Under the Tennessee Voter Confidence Act, all voting machines statewide are supposed to make the switch to the more reliable paper ballots and advocacy group Common Cause tried to file an injunction this [...]
Happy Hour: Headhunters
Super-creepy tidbit of the day: The Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency wants hunters across the state to save them the heads of the squirrels and rabbits they kill so they can map the species distribution statewide. They’ll even come and pick them up if you just want to toss them in the fridge or freezer for [...]
Bright & Early: Doodling The Day Away Edition
Good morning, Nashville. Just when we think things are starting to get dull around here, we find out that in between slicing and dicing the state budget, Governor Phil has been doodling around. Literally. We’d heard about his recent interview with Esquire magazine about what he’d learned in his life (you know, don’t schedule things [...]
Happy Hour: E Is For Emergency
Nashvillians are brilliant–our 911 dispatchers have so far gotten calls from people who are locked in their cars because they forgot to unlock the doors, people who can’t sleep, people whose cats won’t let them out of the bedroom, people who have lost their keys… if it isn’t an emergency, then don’t call! [WKRN]
Who wants [...]
Happy Hour: 1,550,939 Edition
Well guys, Memphis left us in the dust with 254,390 early voters to Davidson’s 190,705–but what you see up there is the state’s impressive grand total of 1,550,939. [Election Commission]
Turns out Joe the Plumber may not be making our ears bleed after all, but rather our eyes. [WSMV]
Some loser (maybe it’s the notorious boob-grabber?) [...]
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