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Bright & Early: Party Fowl Edition

4 August 2009 | 9:30 am
Author: Christy Frink

Good morning, Nashville. The fight over urban chicken coops continues to escalate in the Metro Council with the introduction of a second bill that would make chickens legal and create some regulations to keep them under control. This comes on the heels of the the other chicken-related bill that would declare them illegal. Apparently keeping [...]

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Bright & Early: What’s For Breakfast Edition

11 May 2009 | 10:00 am
Author: Christy Frink

Good morning, Nashville. A recent study by a food security-focused nonprofit revealed that Tennessee is one of 11 states where over 20% of kids under 18 are at risk for hunger, which comes out to about 300,000. Around 77,500 of those kids are under the age of 5. According to the president of Second Harvest [...]

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Bright & Early: When The Well Runs Dry Edition

17 April 2009 | 9:34 am
Author: Christy Frink

Good morning, Nashville. If you’re reading this from work this morning, you’re pretty lucky. The Tennessee unemployment rate hit 9.6% last month and economists predict it won’t be getting better anytime soon. Consequently, more than 7,0000 Tennesseans are reaching the end of their 59 weeks of Federal unemployment benefits. If we continue losing our jobs [...]

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Bright & Early: Siren Song Edition

14 April 2009 | 9:23 am
Author: Christy Frink

Good morning, Nashville. The folks in Rutherford County are still reeling from last week’s EF-4 tornado and now wonder whether a siren warning system could’ve saved lives. We tend to take our own siren system for granted here in Nashville (especially when we hear it every five minutes for two hours straight), but it’s a [...]

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Bright & Early: Monday, Monday Edition

13 April 2009 | 9:15 am
Author: Christy Frink

Good morning, Nashville. More details continue to surface about the tornados that touched down in Murfreesboro on Friday. The EF-3 twister carried sustained winds of up to 165 mph, killed 2, injured 47, destroyed 94 homes and businesses, and damaged more than 400. New mother Kori Bryant and her 9-week old daughter were killed when [...]

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