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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 [...]
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 [...]
Bright & Early: Fat Camp Edition
Good morning, Nashville. Putting nutritional info on the menus may not just be a city-wide issue anymore. Governor Phil is making a case for a bill that would spread the love all across the state of Tennessee. As we’ve previously pointed out, we are a bunch of fatties here in ye olde Volunteer state. Actually, [...]
(For Real This Time) Bye Bye, Circuit City [Comings & Goings]
We lost a couple of our local Circuit City stores at the end of last year, but it looks like the rest of them will be following. Reports are pouring in from pretty much everywhere that state that Circuit City has filed for court approval to liquidate its remaining 567 stores. That means we can [...]
Happy Hour: So This Is What Thursday Smells Like
The kids at Amqui Elementary School in Madison had a rough day today. In the adorable words of the school security officer: “Unfortunately we had an unusual intruder which was a little baby skunk and because of him being kind of excited and he let loose an odor in there you see.” [WKRN] Nashvillest’s favorite [...]
Mo’ Freebies: A&W Root Beer Floats
We’re counting this as one of the best freebies of the summer, because we love us some root beer floats. From 2pm-8pm today, participating A&W Restaurants are giving away free root beer floats, so you can take that $4 and drop it into your gas tank instead. There’s no catch, no medium drink or fries [...]
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