Tag Archives: health care
Bright & Early: Hustle Back Edition
Good morning, Nashville. We’re not gonna lie: We were nearly convinced that football season wasn’t happening this year. However, the gates of the Baptist Sports Park swung wide open yesterday morning and many of our boys “shuffled” back into work after a 136-day vacation–or funemployment, if you will–following a new collective bargaining agreement reached between [...]
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 [...]
Bright & Early: Why Not Wine Edition
Good morning, Nashville. The controversial issue of allowing wine to be sold in grocery stores is certainly not a new one, but lawmakers and advocates are taking a slightly different approach this year. The current bill moving through the legislature would give individual counties the opportunity to vote on the issue as early as August. [...]
Happy Hour: Cold Snap
In case you didn’t read about it everywhere else on the internet, Arlington, TN Mayor Russell Wiseman was a little upset about missing out on the Charlie Brown Christmas special and had some choice things to say about President Obama, on Facebook. [Tennessean] Just a few days after Tennessee capped enrollment in the CoverKids program [...]
Bright & Early: It’s A Gamble Edition
Good morning, Nashville. Governor Phil is still working on figuring out which Very Important Parts of the State Budget will need to be cut in order to make ends meet this year. A few days ago, we heard him consider eliminating funding for neighborhood clinics or just ending all state-sponsored health care programs altogether; yesterday, [...]
Bright & Early: Snip Snap Edition
Good morning, Nashville. Neighborhood health clinics are the latest item on the chopping block for Tennessee’s round of budget cuts. Each year, 23 neighborhood health clinics around the state provide health care for uninsured Tennesseans–a number that’s growing by the day thanks to our 10.5% unemployment rate. Like every other department in the State of [...]
Happy Hour: Another One Bites The Dust
Somewhere around 92,000 Tennesseans may have to give their stimulus checks back according to the IRS. But don’t worry-It’s only the retirees and disabled veterans! [Tennessean] And we’re $128 million in the hole for tax collections this year in the state. Good thing they could cut out about $106 million in spending for public colleges [...]
Happy Hour: Raining On Our Parade
Well guys, with 57.7% of the city tuning into last night’s debate, we’d say we won. [Tennessean] Even some country stars got in on the action! [WTVF] Speaking of that, as promised, we managed to dig up the disastrous video footage of John Rich performing a rousing rendition of “Raisin’ McCain” on the CBS Early [...]
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