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Bright & Early: A Bug’s Life Edition
Good morning, Nashville. We’re running behind this morning, so you know the drill. Here’s your abbreviated Bright & Early: For the 13th straight month, Tennessee’s sales tax revenues have shown some pretty significant growth. We’re also about $126 million ahead of sales tax revenue projections for this fiscal year, which ends in June. [WTVF] Way [...]
Bright & Early: Out Of Our Shell Edition
Good morning, Nashville. While we’re busy wading knee-deep through cicada skeletons, Metro is ramping up its War on Mosquitoes by sending out the Health Department troops to look for properties with breeding grounds and set up traps to identify the ones that carry West Nile. Last year’s mosquito problem was pretty terrible with all the [...]
Bright & Early: Stand With Us Edition
Good morning, Nashville. We’re still celebrating the Preds victory last night, in which they defeated the Anaheim Ducks 4-2 to advance to the Western Conference semifinals for the first time in franchise history. The real story, though, seems to be the tens of thousands of very loud and very rowdy fans who turned out in [...]
Bright & Early: Will It Or Won’t It Edition
Good morning, Nashville. Local news outlets are all abuzz about Festival Tennessee, a proposed Spring Hill theme park announced at yesterday’s press conference by Big International Group of Entertainment, Inc. The $750 million project would span 1,500 acres and include a water park, roller coasters, movie studios, hotels, a charter school and a sports complex [...]
Happy Hour: Festival Tennessee
The big news today is the new theme park, Festival Tennessee, that will supposedly be opening in Spring Hill to include a water park, roller coasters, restaurants, hotels, movie studios, a sportsplex and also possibly an NBA team? Developers say it could also create 15,000-20,000 jobs. Well, okay. We’ll believe it when we see it. [...]
Happy Hour: All Washed Out
Though parts of East and North Nashville saw some pretty significant flooding today, we made it out relatively unscathed this time around. [WTVF] The folks in Franklin County weren’t so lucky, though. A tornado likely touched down and did some serious damage in the area, killing one and injuring others. [WKRN] Metro Development and Housing [...]
Bright & Early: Ch-Ch-Ch-Ch-Changes Edition
Good morning, Nashville. The TVA is starting up a new program in April to sell electricity to distributors at rates that vary throughout the day, meaning that once NES adopts the system, we could pay higher rates around peak hours during the day and lower rates at night. This system is intended to encourage us [...]
Happy Hour: Recovery, Recovery, Recovery
It was a record year for CMApocalypse with all four LP Field concerts selling out for the first time ever and attendance up 16.7%. The numbers aren’t quite in yet, but the CMA estimates that it may have grossed more than ever. And since 100% of the proceeds are going to good causes, we like [...]
Bright & Early: Better Know A County Edition
Good morning, Nashville. Though yesterday started out pretty, last night’s storms wreaked some serious havoc on parts of Tennessee. According to WSMV, “The five counties that now qualify for disaster relief are Claiborne, Cock [sic], Rutherford, Sevier and Union counties.” Farms in all of these counties were significantly damaged by excessive rains and flooding. The [...]
Happy Hour: Party Fowl
There was some serious turkey-frying going on downtown today for Tracy Lawrence’s 4th Annual Mission Possible Turkey Fry to benefit the Nashville Rescue Mission. We’re not sure exactly how many birds were dunked in the deep fryer, but we’re thinking it was at least a few hundred. [WTVF] Related, Second Harvest really needs volunteers to [...]
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