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Bright & Early: Keep Your Eye On The Ball Edition
Good morning, Nashville. In light of all the hoopla surrounding the convention center these days, Mayor Dean is forming a new 9-member Convention Center Authority to handle the project since MDHA seems to be lacking a bit in the oversight department. Though the new board has been in the works for a while now, Metro [...]
Looking Back: TVA’s Kingston Ash Spill Viewed From Space
If you’ve been reading us for a while, you probably know that we’ve kept a pretty close eye on the aftermath of the TVA’s Kingston ash spill back in December. The spill spread more than 1.1 billion gallons of sludge over nearly 300 acres of land, resulting in health problems, property loss, and massive environmental [...]
Happy Hour: Snakes On A What?
The Belmont Bear Pit story only gets better: The infamous Acklen family (you know, the fine folks responsible for the 437 different Acklen Avenues all over Nashville) probably used the pit to keep “exotic pets” such as bears, monkeys, alligators and A FREAKING MOUNTAIN LION. WTH? [WSMV]
Speaking of exotic pets, Florida is sending some large, [...]
Happy Hour: We Can Sag If We Want To
What a relief it is to know that we probably will not be fined for showing the cracks of our butts anytime soon! Our heroic state attorney general said that the Saggy Pants Bill is “arguably unconstitutionally vague because it does not set forth a standard for its violation that may be readily understood.” Phew. [...]
Bright & Early: Two By Two Edition
Good morning, Nashville. We trust that none of you guys floated away this weekend, seeing as our rainfall totals for Middle Tennessee were somewhere in the ballpark of 3-7 inches by Saturday and we’re guessing we racked up at least few more from a very soggy Sunday. And also, there was a tornado. Things should [...]
Bright & Early: Something Other Than The Pig Flu Edition
Good morning, Nashville. We’re probably almost as sick of reading/hearing about the swine flu as you are, so as our gift to you on this Friday, we mined and dug until we found a small handful of stories that actually don’t mention it:
Don’t ever let us go, Sully. We’re mighty proud of Steve Sullivan, who’s [...]
Bright & Early: This Is Just A Drill Edition
Good morning, Nashville. Today is the day that the Nashville International Airport will be inciting mass panic by way of a “full-scale disaster exercise” involving a pretend plane crash complete with painted-up victims and emergency vehicles and helicopters and fake news crews and probably smoke bombs galore. Since this will be completely visible from both [...]
Bright & Early: Like A Freight Train Edition
Good morning, Nashville. We were pleasantly surprised when we woke up this morning and realized we’d made it through the weekend. While we were off frolicking at the film festival and throwing Wayne Coyne around in a giant hamster ball, some Vanderbilt students braved the rain to build a new playgroud for the kiddos at [...]
Happy Hour: Don’t Breathe Unless You Have To
Lest we forget about the folks in Kingston and their nasty, nasty TVA ash spill back in December, more reports of health problems are rolling in by the day. Also, more than 200 residents have stepped up in the class action suit against the TVA with more on the way. [Pith In The Wind]
We feel [...]
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