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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: 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 & Early: Nashville Is Open Edition
Good morning, Nashville. Even though the water has receded and many downtown businesses are back up and running, they’re having a heck of a time actually getting people through the doors. The city has even launched a big “Nashville Is Open” campaign to try to let the world know that they can still come and [...]
Bright & Early: Slow And Steady Wins The Race Edition
Good morning, Nashville. Although our water situation here has been bad (Williamson folks, you’re off the hook), at least we’re not Montgomery County. Because their sewage treatment plant has been out of commission since the flood, every time they flush a toilet, the untreated waste goes straight into the Cumberland. We would like to also point out [...]
Happy Hour: Too Much, Too Far
Leave it to PETA to traumatize your children by sticking Ellie The Bloody Elephant outside of a local elementary school to teach them all about circus animal abuse. [Tennessean] Vince Young is the official starter for 2010, hooray! [City Paper] Our 2009 in Middle Tennessee was “wetter than usual” but didn’t break any significant records. [...]
Bright & Early: Running Out Of Punny Swine Flu Titles Edition
Good morning, Nashville. Vanderbilt University officials are so concerned about the spread of the Swine Flu that they’ve arranged for some bonfires where students can burn any clothes or other belongings that might carry the virus. With the fall semester kicking into full gear, Vandy (and just about every other university in Tennessee) is already [...]
Happy Hour: JoBros Fever Edition
Robbery seemed to be the cool thing to do today with the Tennessee Credit Union on White Bridge and a Bellevue Mapco both getting hit. The two crimes were unrelated. [WKRN & WSMV] The folks in Bristol decided to put their DUI offenders to work this week and have them wear some orange and white [...]
Happy Hour: Revenge Of The Crack Tax
The gentleman responsible for getting our state’s crack tax overturned is now filing a class-action suit against the state to get back the money that was collected under the law, which is apparently over $10 million. [Tennessean] A new study shows that 1/5 of the folks caught driving drunk will be caught again for the [...]
The Economic Blues [Mixed Reviews]
The Mixed Reviews From People Who Don’t Live Here have been few and far between in the past couple months. And, we hate to say, they’re mostly bad, with a little bit of cheery news (for Murfreesboro, at least) mixed in there. Ah, such is life. Murfreesboro came in as the 5th Best Place To [...]
Bright & Early: What Recession? Edition
Good morning, Nashville. So we hear the recession is official, eh? Here on the home front, the number of Tennesseans living on food stamps has jumped almost 10% since January. Unemployment claims have also skyrocketed and are more than seven times what they were at this time last year. Meanwhile, our stores are closing and [...]
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