Tag Archives: gas prices
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 [...]
Happy Hour: On The Prowl
The Tennessee State Highway Patrol is working to drop the “highway” from their name, as they would like for everyone to realize that they are more than traffic cops. [WTVF] In other law enforcement news, the Metro Police Department is looking to add two more precincts to keep up with Nashville’s growth. One is going [...]
Bright & Early: The View From Here Edition
Good morning, Nashville. Ever since the May flood, the folks at Gaylord have been working with the Army Corps of Engineers to figure out a way to better protect the Opryland Hotel and surrounding properties from future flooding. They’re now proposing to raise the levee enough to keep the water out during a 500-year flood, [...]
Bright & Early: Dust It Off Edition
Good morning, Nashville. We’re running short on time this morning, so here’s your abbreviated Bright & Early: Our weather alerts are flashing this morning about a possible dusting of snow today. Exciting, right? There’s also a possibly larger system on the way for Sunday night and Monday. [Nashville WX] Experts say that all the recent [...]
Bright & Early: Feeling Viral Edition
Good morning, Nashville. Last Friday, McGavock High School math teacher Donald Wood had a meltdown during class in which he threw some tables, screamed a lot and admitted to starting a fire in the school bathroom one time. Wood was subdued and carted off in an ambulance, but not before one enterprising student caught the [...]
Bright & Early: Can’t Take The Heat Edition
Good morning, Nashville. We interrupt this edition Bright & Early to set the record straight on something very important: With hot chicken popping up everywhere from Church’s to some random diner in Michigan, it is absolutely vital that we remember that hot chicken started here in Nashville. No matter who tries to claim it or how many [...]
Bright & Early: Summertime Rolls Edition
Good morning, Nashville. Metro’s summer school program will be going invitation-only this year for the first time. It’s no secret that Metro has been struggling to meet No Child Left Behind requirements over the past few years in addition to facing some pretty detrimental funding cuts. Both factors came into play when creating the new [...]
Bright & Early: Up Up And Away Edition
Good morning, Nashville. You may have noticed the gas prices quietly crawling up over the past few weeks and as of this week, they’ve hit a 15-month high averaging $2.65 per gallon in the midstate. Experts say that it has a lot to do with this cold weather we’ve been seeing and the fact that [...]
Bright & Early: Discriminate Not Edition
Good morning, Nashville. The controversial non-discrimination measure passed Metro Council last night with a majority vote of 24 in favor, 15 against and one absent. The bill protects Nashville city workers from discrimination based on sexual orientation or gender identity. Meanwhile, staffers on Capitol Hill sat through five hours of mandatory diversity training yesterday to [...]
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