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Bright & Early: Busted Edition

Good morning, Nashville. We’ll start off today with a burning question: Which of you folks are among the lucky 5,000 Nashvillians whose parking tickets were found stuffed in clerks’ desks at the Metro courthouse yesterday? Because your editors have collected a number of parking tickets around town over the years, and we’re pretty sure no [...]

Bright & Early: Three Little Pigs Stayed Home Edition

Good morning, Nashville. We did everything in our power to ward off that pesky swine flu, but it as of yesterday, it made its way into Tennessee with a vengeance. And by “vengeance” we mean there is one case so far in Williamson County and the kid appears to be doing fine. Consequently, though, the [...]

Happy Hour: Things We Wish We Never Knew

So are we the only ones who had no idea you could make meth from urine? Leave it to East Tennessee, right? ;) [Tennessean]
Don’t forget: TDOT is shutting down I-40W this weekend between the I-440 split and the I-40/I-24 split near downtown. Plan accordingly! [WKRN]
Some churches are being socially responsible and using “Eco-Palms,” or Fair [...]

Bright & Early: Fat Camp Edition

Good morning, Nashville. Putting nutritional info on the menus may not just be a city-wide issue anymore. Governor Phil is making a case for a bill that would spread the love all across the state of Tennessee. As we’ve previously pointed out, we are a bunch of fatties here in ye olde Volunteer state. Actually, [...]

Happy Hour: When It Rains, It Pours

Former Senator Rosalind Kurita, whose state senate seat fell victim to a nasty heist by her own party a few months back, is now being slapped with $6,000 in fines for various campaign finance violations. Not exactly a banner year. [WTVF]
The Tennessean almost gives us its top photos of the year, which would have been [...]

Bright & Early: Slicing The Day Away Edition

Good morning, Nashville. Today’s theme is budget cuts: After Governor Phil’s budget talks a few weeks back, we’re now beginning to see the effects of all the slicing and dicing, particularly in the Tennessee prison system which expects to lose around $50M or 8% of their budget. They’re not sure how they’re going to cope, [...]

Happy Hour: The Birds And The Bee(tle)s

Governor Phil got to meet with President-elect Obama this morning… along with the other 49 governors. Overall, he was pretty pleased with how things went and noted that no President-elect had ever done anything like it before. [WTVF]
Beware the EMERALD ASH BORER BEETLE, purveyor of destruction and killer of trees. [WSMV]
In honor of the traffic [...]