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Happy Hour: Ars Gratia Artis
A judge ruled that Fisk University can sell at least part of their $74 million art collection to a museum in Arkansas, so the collection will spend part of its time there and the other part in Fisk’s storage facility. The only catch is that they can only use $10 million of the $30 million [...]
Bright & Early: Governor Phil To Governor Bill Edition
Good morning, Nashville. The barrage of robocalls and campaign commercials is finally over, Election Day went off (mostly) without a hitch, and our new governor-elect is Bill Haslam, who raked in nearly double the votes that his Democratic opponent did. Weirdly enough, this guy came in third while Crazy Man James checked in near the [...]
Happy Hour: Keep The Music Playing
Congressman Jim Cooper toured the Schermerhorn today and it’s still looking pretty pitiful. Get well soon, Nashville Symphony! [WKRN] Bloody mattress and bed bug horror stories aside, the Metro Health Department found that the Stadium Inn is in tip-top shape. For the Stadium Inn. [WTVF] Kids are starting school next week (already!?) and it looks [...]
Happy Hour: Have We Got A Show For You
The State of Tennessee’s website got quite the makeover last week while no one was paying attention! Check out the new, improved and mostly idiot-proof redesign over at TN.gov. Thanks to Derek B. for the tip! [TN.gov] Things at the Department of Human Service descended into chaos today as hundreds of folks stormed the office [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
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