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Bright & Early: Climb Every Mountain Edition
Good morning, Nashville. As they begin to wrap things up, the state legislature has definitely left at least a few issues unresolved. One of those issues was a bill banning mountain top mining, which died in a subcommittee for the third straight year yesterday after they adjourned until 2011. Lots of folks in Tennessee feel [...]
Bright & Early: Just Say No To H1N1 Edition
Good morning, Nashville. Unlike several other states, Tennessee won’t be requiring any of its residents to be vaccinated for H1N1. The first batches of the vaccine are set to arrive in our state next week but will go to high-risk professionals such as hospitals and health care providers. The next round will be reserved for [...]
Happy Hour: We’ve Got Our Work Cut Out
Historic Nashville, the group responsible for saving the Ryman Auditorium back in the ’90s, has released a list of historic places that are the most endangered. The list includes our precious flashy neon signs like the one that used to guide us to the Donut Den on our darkest of nights. Leave the neon signs [...]
Happy Hour: Where The Wild Things Are
The Spring Hill GM plant is back up and running for the time being, starting production for the first time in seven weeks today. The next scheduled idling will happen around Thanksgiving. [WKRN] HazMat crews responded to a “small explosion” involving some chlorine tablets and a Metro employee today at the Bicentennial Mall. [WTVF] The [...]
Bright & Early: Neighbors To The North Edition
Good morning, Nashville. As much as we’d love a snow day, we’re pretty glad we’re not part of the 500,000 folks in Tennessee and Kentucky who are stuck without power for the next few days. NES is lending a few of their workers out to Kentucky to try and get things back up and running [...]
Happy Hour: Don’t Cry Over Spilt _________
Jot and Brenda Raymond, two of the folks whose property was damaged in the TVA ash spill, have filed the first of what is sure to be many lawsuits against the TVA. [WSMV] In another close call, a propane tanker car came off its tracks in Cookeville, but nothing actually spilled. [WSMV] The folks in [...]
Happy Hour: Terrestrial Matters
Your Thursday laugh, especially for the speed demons among us: Channel 2 snagged this video of a Tennessee Highway Patrolman doling out a speeding ticket to another cop. [WKRN] The Health Department is saying that the 10th Tennessean is being treated for salmonella poisoning, and they’re blaming it all on tomatoes Texas jalepenos Mexico now. [...]
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