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Bright & Early: Around And Around We Go Edition
Good morning, Nashville. Quick tour of the headlines this morning: Davidson County’s unemployment rate shot up 0.6% from May to June, landing at 9.1%. This is still 0.7% lower than the statewide average. [City Paper] The Country Music Hall of Fame will be getting one heck of a makeover soon that will more than double [...]
Bright & Early: Taking Care Of Business Edition
Good morning, Nashville. We know we already mentioned the cicadas, but it looks like they’re going to be sort of a big deal! We’re in line to see the 13-year cicadas emerge from the ground sometime in May and they are part of something called Brood XIX, which is the largest brood we have in [...]
Happy Hour: Putting The Goober In Goobernatorial
We’ve ignored it for as long as we can, but here you go: Republican gubernatorial candidate Basil Marceaux is famous on the internet. He even made it onto Stephen Colbert last night. He wants to end slavery at traffic stops, plant vegetation in intersections, fine everyone who doesn’t own a gun, ban flags with fringe, [...]
Happy Hour: Christmas Came Early This Year
The folks in charge of the Music City Center construction are beefing up their hiring and training procedures to ensure that they’re not employing any illegal immigrants. This comes on the heels of a (very poorly worded) concern expressed by Rep. Mike Turner a few days ago, which he then filed in the form of [...]
Bright & Early: The Best Policy Edition
Good morning, Nashville. State officials are starting to uncover cases of fraud related to flood assistance where people were collecting emergency food stamps and cash assistance when their houses or apartments never actually flooded. Since the pool of available assistance is stretched already, the fraud is hurtful enough that DHS is pulling out all the [...]
Happy Hour: Keep On Truckin’
We got our state report card today and there is some good news: Our high school graduation rate has gone up! The bad news is that our kids still can’t read good. [Tennessean] Some former Six Flags execs have purchased Nashville Shores, but don’t get your hopes up because they already said they’re not building [...]
Bright & Early: Insufficient Funds Edition
Good morning, Nashville. Imagine going to the bank to cash your paycheck only to find out that your employer is flat broke. Their check bounces, which means your checks bounce and bank fees quickly begin to stack up. That’s exactly what happened to more than 200 Lebanon city workers this week when the city’s bank [...]
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. [...]
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