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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: Pot, Meet Kettle Edition

Good morning, Nashville. The new coach at University of Tennessee is already in hot water for using some illegal tactics to lure potential recruits to the team including a staged mock press conference and… a fog machine? Creative! The UT athletics department blew the whistle on Coach Kiffin and sent him a letter pointing out [...]

Happy Hour: We Have No Idea

Weekend WTF: From the Franklin-based creators of the not-so-borderline racist Obama Waffles, we bring you Sarah Palin’s Kickin’ MOOSEBURGER HELPER–featuring some moose and snowflake shaped mac ‘n’ cheese. Best we can tell they’re not nearly as offensive, but then again, we can’t actually see the box. [Tennessean] Also WTF: Maxim Magazine is dragging its office [...]

Bright & Early: High Hopes Edition

Good morning, Nashville. It’s been quite the summer for drug busts around here. Yesterday in Lebanon, Wilson County Sheriff’s detectives seized 800 pounds of pot that had been smuggled in from Mexico. After digging around and staking out across the street, they actually saw the guys unloading the huge marijuana bales from a tractor before [...]