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Bright & Early: Peep Peep Edition
Good morning, Nashville. Several Metro Schools staff members made a colorful appearance at last night’s School Board meeting to let everyone know just how excited they are about their hours, jobs, and incomes being cut. Last week, the board proposed a new budget for next year that would cut 665 jobs and shave one hour [...]
Bright & Early: Rockin’ The Vote Edition
Good morning, Nashville. This weekend, Nashville will be one of the nine polling places for the Iraqi parliamentary election. Because Nashville has the largest Kurdish populations in the United States, we were chosen to host one of the polling sites and Iraqi nationals will be traveling into town from all over the southeastern US to [...]
Happy Hour: Things Fall Apart
Hope y’all enjoyed all that sunshine today (ha, ha, ha) because the storms are pushing back into town tomorrow. [Nashville WX] A bill that would’ve changed our gas tax from a per-gallon to a percentage that rises and falls with the price of gas was ditched in a House committee today. [WZTV] Speaking of WZTV, [...]
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: Are We Not Free?
We’re sorry to report that Sean Hannity’s Freedom Concerts ’09 will not be making a stop in Nashville, though they feature such local talent as Billy Ray Cyrus, Charlie Daniels, and Michael W. Smith. [Wonkette] Titans running back LenDale White is looking at anger management class and one year of probation following some shenanigans in [...]
Bright & Early: Feelin’ Frosty Edition
Good morning, Nashville. Hopefully you brought your plants inside last night since we had our first frost of the season. And though we were a little sad to hang up the flip flops this weekend, we’ve always bragged that Tennessee is one of the best places in the world to be in the fall. We’re [...]
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