Tag Archives: fire
Bright & Early: End Of The World Edition
Good morning, Nashville. Parts of Nashville took quite the beating last night after a line of storms moved into the area just before dawn. As of 8am, NES reported that about 26,000 customers were without power and they’re actively working to restore everyone as soon as possible. The east side seemed to take the hardest [...]
Bright & Early: Racing In Circles Edition
Good morning, Nashville. Fairgrounds supporters are up in arms after discovering a request for proposals issued by the city for companies interested in taking on a new park project at the Fairgrounds. The problem is, the RFP refers to the “former fairgrounds” and “former racetrack,” so some folks believe this is the mayor’s way of [...]
Bright & Early: Need More Trees Edition
Good morning, Nashville. Remember that new law granting free downtown parking to hybrid owners who shell out a mere $10 for a parking sticker? Metro Councilman Charlie Tygard, who has criticized the program for being too elitist, is hoping to extend the opportunity to all Davidson County car owners–if we are willing to pay for [...]
Bright & Early: See You At The Poll Edition
Good morning, Nashville. It’s Election Day! If you weren’t one of the hundreds of thousands of Tennesseans who voted early, be sure you take a few minutes to research the candidates and head to the polls today. You can find out where to vote at the Davidson County Election Commission, unless the site is down [...]
Happy Hour: On The Up And Up
For the sixth month in a row, the TVA is raising their rates and sending us noticeably higher electric bills. [WTVF] Lots of folks were asking about the fire today in North Nashville that was visible from parts of downtown. Good news: It was just an abandoned factory and no one was hurt. [WTVF] Our [...]
Bright & Early: Climb Every Mountain Edition
Good morning, Nashville. As they begin to wrap things up, the state legislature has definitely left at least a few issues unresolved. One of those issues was a bill banning mountain top mining, which died in a subcommittee for the third straight year yesterday after they adjourned until 2011. Lots of folks in Tennessee feel [...]
Happy Hour: Wall To Wall
A local church put together and sent out 10,000 health kits to help with the relief work in Haiti. [WSMV] Friends and neighbors of the family that was killed in a duplex fire this morning are hoping to come together and raise some money for the two surviving children. Five people, including the parents and [...]
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: Just Another Manic Monday Edition
Good morning, Nashville. So this weekend wasn’t quite as relaxing as we’d hoped, but somehow despite the craziness of Steve McNair’s death, our souvenir sunburns from the Hot Chicken Festival, and The Great Fireworks Monsoon of ’09, we’ve still rolled into Monday morning in once piece. As of this morning, developments in the McNair case [...]
Happy Hour: The Big Ten
Tennessee’s unemployment ended up being 9.9% for the month of April, which means we’re a mere tenth of a percentage point away from 10! Compare ot last year’s April unemployment rate of 6%. We’re getting depressed just thinking about it. [WSMV] So let’s lighten things up with a cute video/slideshow/thing about Metro students covering the [...]
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