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Bright & Early: Wait-Listed Edition
Good morning, Nashville. Tennessee’s drug assistance program for people with HIV/AIDS now has a waiting list thanks to folks losing jobs and insurance, along with an increase in the number of people living with the disease. Those overseeing the program hope that their own services can be supplemented with federal programs and pharmaceutical companies. Pregnant women [...]
Bright & Early: Good Ideas And Bad Ideas Edition
Good morning, Nashville. In the latest blow against the proposed convention center, members of the school board are worried about a new state law that would allow the new convention center authority to reroute some sales tax revenue intended for schools to pay for the project. Though convention center advocates have insisted several times that [...]
Bright & Early: Amnesty For All Of Us Edition
Good morning, Nashville. If you’re one of the folks who have helped rack up Nashville’s $26 million in unpaid traffic fines over the years, you might be in luck. Councilman Eric Crafton is proposing an amnesty program for anyone with minor violations in 2006, 2007, or 2008 who hasn’t paid their ticket(s) which would allow [...]
Happy Hour: Life As A Tent
Nashville’s Tent City made the Wall Street Journal yesterday, just in time for Otter Creek’s Night Out for Tent City event tonight. [WSJ]
Regardless of the fact that Rep. Jim Cooper canceled his appearance at West End Middle School, tea partiers have decided they’re going to protest outside the school anyway and even floated the idea [...]
Bright & Early: Rumor Mill Edition
Good morning, Nashville. Thanks to some confused protesters, Rep. Jim Cooper has canceled Friday’s public appearance at West End Middle School where he was supposed to welcome students back to school. Town hall meetings about healthcare reform have been happening all across the country, and somehow word hit the street that Rep. Cooper would be [...]
Happy Hour: What Goes Around
As you might have figured out from our absence today, we’ve been totally sidetracked by the chaos on Capitol Hill that ensued after Rep. Jason Mumpower lost the Speaker of the House vote that everyone thought he had in the bag. And mostly because some n00b pressed the wrong button. [Nashville Is Talking, Nashville Post, [...]
Bright & Early: Walking The Walk Edition
Good morning, Nashville. It looks like we might finally get our new sidewalks and bike lanes after all. Metro Public Works has finished up creating the new guidelines for where all of them should go, and now they’re trying to set the priorities to determine who will get them first. As far as we’re concerned, [...]
Happy Hour: Doing The Electric Slide
U.S. Representative Jim Cooper is under investigation by the FBI for illegally accessing the website of the largest electric cooperative in the country. His spokesman calls the investigation “laughable,” but we think it’s safe to say that no one’s laughing about electricity these days. [Tennessean]
The Tennessee Highway Patrol kicked off their 100 Days of Summer [...]
The Weekendist: Summer Is Here Edition
It feels like summer came to Nashville weeks ago, but today is actually the first official day of summer. This weekend is packed with activities and events, so get out and celebrate in true summer style. Even if you don’t make it to a scheduled events, take a trip to the park or the lake [...]
Bright & Early: A Different Perspective Edition
Good morning, Nashville. We never thought we’d see the day when the Russians would be taking lessons from Tennessee about anything, and especially transportation planning. But Russian diplomats are, in fact, within our borders at this very moment meeting with TDOT about how they can improve their country’s road programs. Yesterday, they toured some of [...]
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