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Happy Hour: Sharing The Wealth
The TBI is considering charging local law enforcement for the use of their crime lab to analyze crime scene evidence. Local police departments depend on the labs for most of the analysis, but because our state is broke and slashed their budget, they’ve decided they need the extra money. A change like that could cost [...]
Bright & Early: Take Us Out To The Fair Edition
Good morning, Nashville. As of last night, the Tennessee State Fair as we know it is no more. Mayor Dean penned a letter conveying the decision and handed it off to a board member to read to a crowd of 200 angry folks who booed the decision. Metro will be seizing control of the fairgrounds [...]
Happy Hour: Round And Round
Metro Police Sgt. Mark Chesnut, who was shot several times in his police car along I-40 over the summer, is finally back home and still recovering. We’re happy to hear he’s doing well! [Sylvan Park Neighborhood Association] Nashville MTA is rolling out it’s new Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) service starting this weekend. [City Paper] We [...]
Happy Hour: Sully’s (Still) In The House
We’re hearing reports from our more hockey-savvy friends that Steve Sullivan just inked a new 2-year deal with the Preds. As you can see from his joyous tweet above, the fans aren’t the only ones excited about it. [The Twitter Tubes] An Indiana theme park called Holiday World donated 37,000 pounds of food to Second [...]
Bright & Early: Crossing That Bridge Edition
Good morning, Nashville. The Metro Council sponsor for the controversial May Town Center proposal seems to have given up for the time being, announcing yesterday that he’s going to defer it indefinitely at the next council meeting. The Metro Planning Commission determined that it was a bad idea last week and it probably would’ve failed [...]
Bright & Early: It’s Been A Week Edition
Good morning, Nashville. We’re not gonna lie: All the breaking news in the past 24 hours has us pretty worn out. As of this morning, Sgt. Mark Chesnut–the 44-year old Metro officer who was injured in yesterday’s shooting on I-40–is headed back into surgery at Vanderbilt for some pretty severe internal injuries. Despite wearing body [...]
Happy Hour: What A Day, What A Day
Lots of big news today, not the least of which is GM’s choice of Michigan over Spring Hill for building its new small car. Consequently the Spring Hill plant, which employs more than 3,000 people, will be taking an indefinite hiatus later this year. More details to come at tomorrow morning’s press conference. [WKRN] Also [...]
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