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Bright & Early: Out Of Our Shell Edition
Good morning, Nashville. While we’re busy wading knee-deep through cicada skeletons, Metro is ramping up its War on Mosquitoes by sending out the Health Department troops to look for properties with breeding grounds and set up traps to identify the ones that carry West Nile. Last year’s mosquito problem was pretty terrible with all the [...]
Bright & Early: Get To Work Edition
Good morning, Nashville. Davidson County Criminal Court Clerk David Torrence could be penalized up to losing his job after WSMV planted a camera outside his house and found that he only works three days per week and pulls in a six-figure, taxpayer-funded salary. They also found that he uses his county car for liquor store runs [...]
Happy Hour: Keeping Our Cool
Several organizations including Metro Action Commission are trying to get window units into the hands of as many air conditioner-less people as possible. So if you’ve got an extra one to spare, find out where you can take it. Similarly, keep an eye out for elderly friends and neighbors or anyone else without A/C who [...]
Happy Hour: Dam It
Things aren’t looking too good for the Army Corps of Engineers today following the Senate subcommittee hearing on the Nashville flood. Though they defended their actions, they admitted that communication broke down because they failed to read their emails from the National Weather Service and pass on pertinent information. Mayor Dean also testified that the [...]
Happy Hour: Up Up And Away
The Nashville Convention & Visitors Bureau reports that CMA fans dropped a whopping $24 million into the city’s economy while they were here last weekend, breaking last year’s record by $2 million. [Tennessean] According to Forbes, Nashville is getting most of its new folks from Florida, Chicago and the northeast. [Nashville Post] Mosquitoes and chiggers [...]
West Nile Is Back [Reality Bites]
It wouldn’t be summer in Tennessee without a swarm of mosquitoes and a good West Nile outbreak. Today, the first batch of mosquitoes testing positive for the virus showed up in East Nashville near the intersection of Rosebank Ave. and Colbert Dr. Though it hasn’t affected any humans and the city doesn’t plan on spraying [...]
Bright & Early: Just Another Manic Monday Edition
Good morning, Nashville. We really love it when we can start off the week with some good news, like telling you that the TVA is doing something other than slinging toxic sludge all over our state and also some other states. They’re planning to lower our rates by another 4% starting July 1st, meaning that [...]
Bright & Early: No More Hamthrax Edition
Good morning, Nashville. Three Nashville-area schools that closed down last week for swine flu were given the green light to reopen today. The kiddos are understandably a little disappointed to be robbed of their impromptu vacation, but we’re happy to hear that things are getting back to normal. Due to some standardized testing, a few [...]
Bright & Early: Tourist Appreciation Edition
Good morning, Nashville. Metro Council is showing tourists anything but love this week as they consider jacking up taxes even higher than they already are. The increase would come by way of a 50-cent hike in the hotel/motel tax, which they see as a way to bring in more revenue without bothering the locals. Trouble [...]
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