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Bright & Early: Music To Our Ears Edition
Good morning, Nashville. As much as we joke around about Bluepocalypse and CMApocalypse and all the other -pocalypses that involve hundreds of thousands of tourists flooding downtown Nashville, we really do appreciate it. Folks who visited over the weekend for the SEC festivities pumped an estimated $10 million into our economy and also had some [...]
Bright & Early: #TheSituation2010
Good morning, Nashville. Whether you’re reading this from under your covers at home or you’re cursing the school children for that snow day you didn’t get, the winter weather is on its way. As predicted, the city is taking every possible precaution including readying emergency response crews, putting the electric company on standby, working out [...]
Happy Hour: Wall To Wall
A local church put together and sent out 10,000 health kits to help with the relief work in Haiti. [WSMV] Friends and neighbors of the family that was killed in a duplex fire this morning are hoping to come together and raise some money for the two surviving children. Five people, including the parents and [...]
Bright & Early: Better Know A County Edition
Good morning, Nashville. Though yesterday started out pretty, last night’s storms wreaked some serious havoc on parts of Tennessee. According to WSMV, “The five counties that now qualify for disaster relief are Claiborne, Cock [sic], Rutherford, Sevier and Union counties.” Farms in all of these counties were significantly damaged by excessive rains and flooding. The [...]
Bright & Early: Now Or Never Edition
Good morning, Nashville. The proposed Music City Center is coming up for a final vote at tonight’s Metro Council meeting, though most folks are saying that it’s pretty much a done deal. Considering the city has already bought up all the land and pumped nearly a half-million dollars into public relations (at least), they’re probably [...]
Bright & Early: Neck And Neck Edition
Good morning, Nashville. The seven main candidates in the 2010 Tennessee gubernatorial race went head to head last night at Belmont on all things education-related. The forum included candidates Bill Haslam, Mike McWherter, Zach Wamp, Ron Ramsey, Jim Kyle, Bill Gibbons and Kim McMillan, who covered the whole gamut of topics ranging from Pre-K to [...]
Happy Hour: Priorities, Priorities
The kind folks at the Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee have established a Haiti Earthquake Response Fund for the purpose of channeling local donations to reputable aid groups in need of financial resources to help with the disaster relief. [Nashville Is Talking] In the midst of all this global need, we are very, very comforted [...]
Bright & (Not So) Early: Aftermath Edition
Good morning, Nashville. By now, we’re sure everyone has heard about the massive earthquake that struck Haiti yesterday. Eight Nashvillians were in Haiti doing mission work at the time and survived, notifying church members and friends back home by text message. Congressman Jim Cooper is working closely with the State Department to identify and locate [...]
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