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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: Snow, Etc. Edition
Good morning, Nashville. We feel like a broken record these days, but did you hear that it’s supposed to snow this afternoon? We should see our first flurries around 2PM and everyone is calling for about 1-2 inches. Though TDOT is already out prepping the roads with what little salt they have left, it could [...]
Happy Hour: Counting With Both Hands
Get your live election results here when the polls start closing around 8pm/7pm CST. [Tennessean] An MTSU professor drove his water-powered car from Bristol to Memphis yesterday. The vehicle runs on tap water and solar power and can go 400 miles before refueling. [WSMV] Aspiring teachers will soon have to have videos of their classrooms [...]
Happy Hour: Birds Flying High
So that storm was a doozy, eh? Three big lightning strikes were enough to take down the city’s 911 dispatching system, or most of it, leaving operators to record calls by pen and paper. [WTVF] Organizers are now taking questions for Mike McWherter and Bill Haslam’s September 14th debate, so send ‘em some good ones [...]
Happy Hour: Dream The Dream
Chris Johnson and the Titans finally worked enough of a deal out that he’ll actually be showing up to training camp next week (somebody pinch us, are we dreaming?) He did end up talking himself into a pay raise, but the rest of the terms are still a mystery. [City Paper] Speaking of, single game [...]
Bright & Early: The Way It Moves Edition
Good morning, Nashville. It’s one of those weird weather weeks again with blazing heat and pop-up storms–one of which actually peeled the roof clean off of a Smyrna gas station. One thing we shouldn’t have to worry about is a trend of heat-related power outages because NES insists they have it under control. In years [...]
Bright & Early: Keep On Singin’ Edition
Good morning, Nashville. Metro is looking at an ordinance that would throw some additional flood recovery money at Gaylord; the only catch is that it can only be used to fix the Grand Ole Opry House and not the Opryland Hotel. While the damage estimate for the hotel is about 10 times that of the [...]
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