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Bright & Early: The Bridge To Somewhere Edition
Good morning, Nashville. If you’ve been downtown in the last 24 hours, you might’ve already seen the brand new Bridgestone Arena signs that were unveiled last night. We discussed potential nicknames on Twitter last week and heard everything from The BAr to The BrA to The Rubber Palace to, simply, The Bridge. And we think [...]
Bright & Early: Enough Already Edition
Good morning, Nashville. If you’re looking out the window this morning and wondering how the heck it’s still snowing, we’re right there with you. And if you didn’t know it was snowing, a quick skim of the headlines would probably tip you off. We’re seeing everything from kids going without food because school is closed [...]
Bright & Early: Adventuretime Edition
Good morning, Nashville. We keep getting more and more intrigued by this whole idea of an “Adventure Play Park” being built on the east bank of the Cumberland. So far we’ve heard talk of water jets, rock climbing walls, wading pools and an amphitheater, but we’re having a little trouble visualizing such a thing. What [...]
Bright & Early: What To Do With Bellevue Edition
Good morning, Nashville. Folks in Bellevue have been talking with the Metro Council about rezoning the Bellevue Center Mall turned into another incarnation of Hillwood High School, whose current building would be shut down. At the moment, the plan is to turn the mall into a mixed-use development (although Eric Crafton and Facebook seem to think [...]
Bright & Early: It’s A Go Edition
Good morning, Nashville. As predicted, the Music City Center was given the green light by the Metro Council at last night’s meeting. The final vote tally was 29 yeas and 9 nays with Eric Crafton, Michael Craddock, Emily Evans and Mike Jameson among the nays. The next hurdle for the project will be the hotel [...]
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 [...]
Happy Hour: Hot Diggity Dog
A Metro charter school bus driver accidentally left a 7-year old on the bus all day yesterday. The kid fell asleep, the driver didn’t notice, and then when the driver figured out what had happened, he tried to bribe the kid to keep quiet with a hot dog–a hot dog!–which is actually what tipped off the [...]
Bright & Early: It’s A Gamble Edition
Good morning, Nashville. Governor Phil is still working on figuring out which Very Important Parts of the State Budget will need to be cut in order to make ends meet this year. A few days ago, we heard him consider eliminating funding for neighborhood clinics or just ending all state-sponsored health care programs altogether; yesterday, [...]
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