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Bright & Early: Governor Phil To Governor Bill Edition
Good morning, Nashville. The barrage of robocalls and campaign commercials is finally over, Election Day went off (mostly) without a hitch, and our new governor-elect is Bill Haslam, who raked in nearly double the votes that his Democratic opponent did. Weirdly enough, this guy came in third while Crazy Man James checked in near the [...]
Bright & Early: Wake Us When It’s Over Edition
Good morning, Nashville. Tennessee has managed to make quite a spectacle of itself in the past few weeks with our strange array of fringe gubernatorial candidates and controversial statements from the not-so-fringe ones, but we’re here to tell you that at least this leg of the journey will be over soon. You have today and [...]
Bright & (Not So) Early: Fooling Around Edition
Good morning, Nashville. Because we just love you guys so much here at Nashvillest, we’re going to continue our annual tradition of being the one place on the internet that isn’t foolin’ around on this fine first day of April (and it is fine, isn’t it?) (and clearly, some of our friends don’t love you [...]
Bright & Early: Giant Scary Fish Ahoy Edition
Good morning, Nashville. If you’re the kind of person who enjoys having new things to fear in life, let’s discuss the Asian Carp invasion here in Middle Tennessee. The Tennessee Wildlife Resource Agency is warning boaters that these fish, which were imported into the states for catfish farms in the 1980s, have been spotted in [...]
Bright & Early: Twittering No More Edition
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 [...]
Happy Hour: Cold Snap
In case you didn’t read about it everywhere else on the internet, Arlington, TN Mayor Russell Wiseman was a little upset about missing out on the Charlie Brown Christmas special and had some choice things to say about President Obama, on Facebook. [Tennessean] Just a few days after Tennessee capped enrollment in the CoverKids program [...]
Happy Hour: Ouch
I-440 is closing this weekend, again, this time affecting westbound traffic. We’re almost getting used to planning our route without it. [WKRN] TennCare has cut an estimated 84,000 folks from the program since January when they started redetermining eligibility for certain groups of clients. [Times Free Press] A department head in Mayor Dean’s office was [...]
Happy Hour: _________ Started The Fire
Did you know that if the four most dangerous chemical treatment plants in Nashville exploded, it could affect more than a million people? Or at least that’s what Greenpeace says. [WSMV] In that same vein, a Duke University study showed that the folks in Kingston have probably been inhaling all sorts of dangerous particles released [...]
Bright & Early: Partytime Edition
Good morning, Nashville. The sun is out, it might not even reach 90 degrees today, and it sounds like a perfect day for… another tea party? You may recall the one that drew a few thousand people back in April, and this one will probably attract some of the same folks. The place is Legislative [...]
Chipotle To Enter Nashville Market Soon (We Hope)
Because Baja/Blue Coast Burrito, Moe’s, Chile Burrito and Qdoba aren’t enough, we’ve been desperately begging Chipotle to bring their burrito-y goodness to Nashville… And it looks like we’re about to see the fruits of our begging! From the Bring Chipotle To Nashville Group: And Chipotle lovers everywhere rejoice. We’ll let you know when we get [...]
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