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Bright & Early: Twittering No More Edition

17 February 2010 | 9:30 am
Author: Christy Frink

Good morning, Nashville. If you’ve been enjoying all the live-tweeting and Facebooking by some members of the Metro Council during meetings, you can consider it a thing of the past. The Council attorney warned the twittering council members that such use of social media to inform the public could be a violation of the open [...]

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Happy Hour: Long Way Down

2 October 2009 | 6:03 pm
Author: Christy Frink

‘Tis the week for chemical spills, it seems: A Chattanooga wastewater plant employee was seriously burned after around one ton of chlorine leaked inside a containment building. [WZTV] The TBI has released a sketch of the woman who is being accused of posing as an immigration enforcement agent, stabbing a woman, and stealing her 4-day [...]

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Happy Hour: Troubled Bridges And Troubled Water

11 September 2009 | 5:26 pm
Author: Christy Frink

The bad news: At least 111 bridges in Tennessee have been deemed structurally deficient. The good news? TDOT will be fixing or replacing them all soon. [WTVF] A section of the Emory River will be closed for an extra month while the Powers That Be dredge all of the TVA’s mess out of it. [Pith [...]

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Happy Hour: Wanna Get Away?

4 August 2009 | 6:30 pm
Author: Christy Frink

Metro is looking for a way out of paying the $250,000 they owe to a man who was injured by a Public Works employee’s horseplay. The employee was trying to give a pedestrian a scare while driving a giant bulldozer and the pedestrian was startled enough that he leapt over a guard rail and hurt [...]

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