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Bright & Early: Working Hard For The Money Edition
Good morning, Nashville. Yesterday we took a look at lawsuits that are draining Metro Schools’ budget. Today we learn that the city has doled out over a half-million dollars in settlements over the last two months for incidents including a car accident with a MNPD officer, the infamous gold grill scandal and a wrongful arrest. [...]
Bright & Early: Summertime Rolls Edition
Good morning, Nashville. Metro’s summer school program will be going invitation-only this year for the first time. It’s no secret that Metro has been struggling to meet No Child Left Behind requirements over the past few years in addition to facing some pretty detrimental funding cuts. Both factors came into play when creating the new [...]
Happy Hour: Not Out Of The Woods
Tomorrow is another snow day for the Davidson County school kids, those lucky ducks. [WSMV] But it isn’t without cause as the roads are still pretty treacherous in spots and the slush is expected to re-freeze tonight. [WSMV] Case in point: An SUV slid on the slush that’s still on the side of I-40 near [...]
Happy Hour: Too Much, Too Far
Leave it to PETA to traumatize your children by sticking Ellie The Bloody Elephant outside of a local elementary school to teach them all about circus animal abuse. [Tennessean] Vince Young is the official starter for 2010, hooray! [City Paper] Our 2009 in Middle Tennessee was “wetter than usual” but didn’t break any significant records. [...]
Bright & Early: One Year After Kingston Edition
Good morning, Nashville. Today marks the one-year anniversary of the TVA ash spill in Kingston, Tennessee. Since this is one news story we’re absolutely guilty of harping on here at Nashvillest, we didn’t want today to pass by unnoticed. On December 22, 2008, 5,4 million cubic yards of fly ash (or 1.1 billion gallons) spilled out [...]
Bright & Early: Space Heater Appreciation Edition
Good morning, Nashville. With the frigid temperatures finally rearing their ugly heads in the past few weeks, it’s that time of year where many of us bust out the space heaters and complain about how cold it is in the office. However, the kids of Shayne Elementary School of Nolensville Road have gone without heat [...]
Bright & Early: Cuddly As A Cactus Edition
Good morning, Nashville. It’s the holiday season and the sound of Christmas music fills the air downtown thanks to those giant speaker-boxes on every street corner. The extra dose of holiday flavor makes just about everyone a little more cheerful–everyone, that is, except for the state workers in the Rachel Jackson Building on Sixth and [...]
Happy Hour: Cleaning Up Messes
The state advisory board that was supposed to be looking more into last year’s TVA ash spill in Kingston released a 17-page report saying that we need tighter control over ash ponds and we’re not quite sure how this is information is new. [WSMV] It doesn’t look like we’re going to get any flurries this [...]
Happy Hour: Hot Diggity Dog
A Metro charter school bus driver accidentally left a 7-year old on the bus all day yesterday. The kid fell asleep, the driver didn’t notice, and then when the driver figured out what had happened, he tried to bribe the kid to keep quiet with a hot dog–a hot dog!–which is actually what tipped off the [...]
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