Tag Archives: east tennessee
Happy Hour: Into The Dark
The Country Music Marathon is already breaking records with more than 30,000 folks registered to participate. [WTVF]
State Senator Ophelia Ford may miss most or all of the current legislative session after she faced some complications with a recent surgery. This won’t be the first time it’s happened; she also missed most of 2007’s session for [...]
Happy Hour: We’re All Just Bums
Opponents of selling wine in grocery stores are now proclaiming that if we change the law to allow this kind of sale, we’ll be plagued with an epidemic of “street drinkers” whose unconscious bodies we will have to clear out of our driveways before we go to work every morning. For the love of Shiraz, [...]
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: Our Own Prison Edition
Good morning, Nashville. Few things are spookier (or photogenic!) than an old abandoned state penitentiary, and as of this afternoon, we’ll have another one in our midst. The Brushy Mountain State Penitentiary in East Tennessee, which has been housing some pretty nasty criminals (including MLK Jr.’s assassin James Early Ray) for 113 years, but will [...]
Happy Hour: Yes He Did
Gail Kerr from the Tennessean gives us a good roundup of lucky Nashvillians who made it to DC for the inauguration. [Tennessean]
Jack Daniels knows how to celebrate- For the first time in a long long time, they’ve rolled out the inauguration barrel with some presidential whiskey. Not that we’ll ever get to drink it but [...]
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 [...]
Bright & Early: One More Day Edition
Good morning, Nashville. After months and months of nonstop campaigning, I think we can all agree that we’re suffering from election fatigue. We’re trying not to be too bitter about our state not being “battleground” enough for the campaign trail, but at least John McCain is showing us a litte last-minute love. Sen. McCain will [...]
Bright & Early: High Hopes Edition
Good morning, Nashville. It’s been quite the summer for drug busts around here. Yesterday in Lebanon, Wilson County Sheriff’s detectives seized 800 pounds of pot that had been smuggled in from Mexico. After digging around and staking out across the street, they actually saw the guys unloading the huge marijuana bales from a tractor before [...]
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