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Bright & Early: Mountains And Molehills Edition
Good morning, Nashville. A quick tour of this morning’s headlines: Davidson County Clerk John Arriola is likely breathing a sigh of relief this morning as the Metro Council deferred a bill calling for his resignation at last night’s meeting. The bill wouldn’t actually require him to take any action, but his office is already under [...]
Bright & Early: Racing In Circles Edition
Good morning, Nashville. Fairgrounds supporters are up in arms after discovering a request for proposals issued by the city for companies interested in taking on a new park project at the Fairgrounds. The problem is, the RFP refers to the “former fairgrounds” and “former racetrack,” so some folks believe this is the mayor’s way of [...]
Bright & Early: Digging To China Edition
Good morning, Nashville. Despite the fact that we’ve all been navigating around the convention center construction and road closures for several weeks, the “groundbreaking” ceremony is scheduled for Monday. During that time, the Mayor and other city leaders will do that thing where they put on hard hats and pretend to dig important holes while [...]
Bright & Early: Rockin’ The Vote Edition
Good morning, Nashville. This weekend, Nashville will be one of the nine polling places for the Iraqi parliamentary election. Because Nashville has the largest Kurdish populations in the United States, we were chosen to host one of the polling sites and Iraqi nationals will be traveling into town from all over the southeastern US to [...]
Happy Hour: At Least There Are Cute Baby Animals
We might not be accomplishing much in this state this year, but we’ll at least have green vending machines. [WSMV] And Tennessee’s revenue shortfall for the month of April? $112 million. [WTVF] But enough about that! The Nashville Zoo welcomed some cute (and we mean REALLY cute) clouded leopard cubs which are apparently quite rare. [...]
Bright & Early: Hot, Hot, Hot Edition
Good morning, Nashville. Congratulations to all of our friends who are way more athletic than we are and completed the Country Music Marathon or 1/2 marathon on Saturday. For the full list of runners and times, check out the Tennessean’s massive marathon database. Unfortunately the race didn’t go by without some casualties; 25-year old Benjamin [...]
Happy Hour: Don’t Breathe Unless You Have To
Lest we forget about the folks in Kingston and their nasty, nasty TVA ash spill back in December, more reports of health problems are rolling in by the day. Also, more than 200 residents have stepped up in the class action suit against the TVA with more on the way. [Pith In The Wind] We [...]
Bright & Early: Hugging Some Trees Edition
Good morning, Nashville. If you’re coming in late in the game, you may not remember all the talk about creating a “second downtown” in the Bells Bend area, which is currently a rural space in West Nashville. The proposed May Town Center, touted as “a town, within a park, within a city,” (creepy Utopian-looking video [...]
Bright & Early: Something To Brag About Edition
Good morning, Nashville. What better way to start the week than to brag about our Titans a little bit? Over the weekend, the guys defeated the Cleveland Browns 28-9 to claim the AFC South title and become the first team in the NFL to clinch the division championship this season. We can’t be sure, but we [...]
Bright & Early: House Hunters Edition
Good morning, Nashville. City officials have been working on finding housing for the folks in Tent City after repeatedly pushing back the deadline for shutting it down. They’ve put 10 of them up in a hotel on Murfreesboro Road while they try to work out public housing, but several more are still waiting. We’re surprised [...]
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