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Bright & Early: Top O’ The Mornin’ Edition
Good morning, Nashville, and happy St. Patrick’s Day! Councilman Charlie Tygard has chosen to hold off on a bill he was sponsoring that would have reworked our public art funding to spread the love all across the city rather than just downtown. As much as we’d love to see some more riverfront rollercoasters, naked people [...]
Bright & Early: Weighing The Options Edition
Good morning, Nashville. The Metro Council voted to keep the 287(g) federal immigration enforcement program at last night’s meeting after also voting not to discuss the issue before making the decision. Dozens of folks opposing the program had shown up at City Hall to protest, but left abruptly after the vote was made and were [...]
Bright & (Not So) Early: Poor Planning Edition
Good morning, Nashville. Just when we thought things with the convention center couldn’t get any more dramatic, News Channel 5 uncovered another contract that blew the budget out of the water. A consultant hired to help out with the hotel portion of the project was originally capped at $104,500, but then MDHA removed the cap [...]
Bright & (Not So) Early: Perry County Appreciation Edition
Good morning, Nashville. It’s been a while since we’ve checked in with Perry County–the folks about 90 miles southwest of us whose unemployment rate hit 27% in January of this year. Thanks to a stimulus program that creates positions within existing businesses and pays their wages and benefits directly, they seem to be on the [...]
Bright & Early: A House Is Not A Home Edition
Good morning, Nashville. We’ve been watching in amazement for nearly 24 hours as the folks at TDOT try to clear up an unusual problem on I-40: A flatbed truck carrying (we think) a mobile home got wedged underneath the Elm Hill Pike overpass yesterday afternoon at 1:40pm. Originally it was set to be cleared out [...]
Bright & Early: Can’t Get No Satisfaction Edition
Good morning, Nashville. By now, we’re all pretty familiar with the Guns in Bars bill saga, which was passed by the state legislature and vetoed by Governor Phil and then passed again over the course of the past two weeks. A similar bill that would allow guns in public parks is also well on its [...]
Bright & Early: In Which We Get Hip Edition
Good morning, Nashville. Today marks an important milestone in the history of our fair city’s quest to become legit: Today, Urban Outfitters is finally, FINALLY having its grand opening shindig. Now if we could somehow get an H&M and an Ikea and build the highest skyscraper in the Southeast, we would never have to go [...]
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