Tag Archives: homelessness
Bright & Early: Trailing Edition
Good morning, Nashville. After repeated warnings from Governor Phil hoping to prepare parents for lower TCAP scores, the results are finally coming in and they’re pretty bad. Because officials thought that the test was so easy that it wasn’t giving accurate feedback, they made it more difficult this year and graded it a little differently. As [...]
Bright & Early: They’re Back Edition
Good morning, Nashville. That magical time of the year we call Football Season is upon us and the Titans kicked it off less-than-awesomely in Seattle on Saturday with a 20-18 loss. But! Chris Johnson seems to be picking up right where he left off last season and VY™ wasn’t looking too shabby either. Next time [...]
Bright & Early: Doing A Dance Edition
Good morning, Nashville. The ongoing quest to get to the bottom of the Army Corps of Engineers’ role in the flood gets more heated by the day. The Corps is being accused of playing the blame game with other agencies like the National Weather Service for their own mistakes. As it turns out, the Corps [...]
Happy Hour: We’re Beaming With Pride
We are Very Proud to announce that the Guinness World Record for “Fastest Duct Taping Person to a Wall” is now held by the lovely folks at Highland Park Baptist Church in Jackson, Tennessee. Our state is really going places in life. [Tennessean] All members of the Tennessee State Capitol security detail underwent diversity training [...]
Bright & Early: No Place Like Home Edition
Good morning, Nashville. According to numbers gathered by the Nashville Rescue Mission, homelessness is still on the rise in Nashville. Like many other things, we can probably chalk it up to recession-era job loss and a lack of affordable housing. Between 2008 and 2009, the Mission’s nightly average rose 15 percent and the total number [...]
Bright & Early: It All Falls Down Edition
Good morning, Nashville. By the time you read this, the demolition of the Nashville Autohaus and several other buildings near the 7th and Shirley intersection will probably be underway (but not Rocketown just yet!) Construction for the Music City Center is expected to break ground today meaning that all of the buildings that are currently [...]
Happy Hour: We Have A Situation
Nashville WX is doing a great job making sure they don’t build up our hopes and then crush them keeping us ahead of Friday’s storm, which they have decided to call “The Ice/Snow Situation.” Your Nashvillest will be following suit, but shortening the nickname to “The Situation,” or #thesituation2010. And actually, this one does look [...]
Happy Hour: Christmas Tree, Take Two
Bless their hearts! Two kind folks in Fairview stepped up to the plate and donated a new 25-foot Christmas tree to replace the sad broken one downtown. It’s about 15 feet shorter than the last one, but it’s way cuter. And maybe they somehow magically grew the trunk out of steel. Thanks for saving Christmas, [...]
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