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Bright & Early: Twittering No More Edition
Good morning, Nashville. If you’ve been enjoying all the live-tweeting and Facebooking by some members of the Metro Council during meetings, you can consider it a thing of the past. The Council attorney warned the twittering council members that such use of social media to inform the public could be a violation of the open [...]
Bright & Early: It’s A Go Edition
Good morning, Nashville. As predicted, the Music City Center was given the green light by the Metro Council at last night’s meeting. The final vote tally was 29 yeas and 9 nays with Eric Crafton, Michael Craddock, Emily Evans and Mike Jameson among the nays. The next hurdle for the project will be the hotel [...]
Bright & Early: Tennessee Shuffle Edition
Good morning, Nashville. Last night brought some big news on the Tennessee political front with 30-year U.S. Rep. John Tanner deciding not to run for reelection in 2010. Within a matter of hours, Tennessee state senator Roy Herron dropped his bid for governor and announced that he’s running for Tanner’s congressional seat instead. Up until [...]
Bright & Early: Disaster Tourism Edition
Good morning, Nashville. Roane County may be putting the kibosh on the TVA’s plans to build an overlook for passers-by to view the progress on the coal ash cleanup. According to county officials, the TVA never consulted them before developing the viewing area which is supposed to include a parking lot big enough for 20 [...]
Bright & Early: Stop The Bus Edition
Good morning, Nashville. A federal judge ruled in favor of the plaintiff in NAACP’s civil rights lawsuit against Metro Nashville Public Schools and mandated that the child be transferred back to Bellevue Middle School, which is the school she went to before Metro’s controversial rezoning. The judge also ruled that John Early Middle needs to [...]
Bright & Early: On The Agenda Edition
Good morning, Nashville. The Metro Council meeting got a little heated last night as several controversial issues came to a vote. After an emotional debate, the non-discrimination ordinance passed it’s second reading. The council was split evenly down the middle on the issue of guns in parks, forcing Vice Mayor Diane Neighbors to cast the [...]
Bright & Early: The Buck Stops There Edition
Good morning, Nashville. Just a few days after News Channel 5 blasted Metro for some outrageous spending on convention center PR, Mayor Dean put his foot down. An investigative report revealed that Metro had shelled out about six times the amount that was in the original contract with local PR firm McNeely Pigott & Fox, [...]
Bright & Early: Party Fowl Edition
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 [...]
Happy Hour: It’s Distracting
Tennessee police still aren’t writing too many tickets for texting while driving because they haven’t figured out how to enforce it. [Tennessean]
Metro Council will soon start debating whether Nashville should opt out of the guns in parks law, although we’re not sure where this fits in. [WKRN]
One of the office complexes in Cool Springs was [...]
Happy Hour: Dodge That Bullet
Hooray! Metro Schools got their test results back and they did well enough that Mayor Dean is off the hook for taking over the school system. Though they didn’t “technically” meet the benchmarks, they improved enough that they’re in the clear for now. [Tennessean]
Nashville was chosen as one of the eight cities participating in the [...]
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