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Bright & Early: Even Elvis Needs Marshmallows Sometimes Edition
Good morning, Nashville. Owners of Tootsie’s Orchid Lounge, Broadway Brewhouse and Rippy’s have dropped $2.1 million on purchasing the old Seanachie Pub building at Fourth and Broadway, which has been vacant for nearly ten years. Since it was shuttered in 2002, the building has changed hands a couple of times between banks and out-of-town investors, [...]
Bright & Early: Christmas In July Edition
Good morning, Nashville. Metro Councilwoman Karen Bennett is concerned that chopping down a city Christmas tree every year might not be the best way to go green. She’d rather Metro plant an evergreen tree in the public square to hang out year-round and be spruced up for the holidays, and she’s proposed a resolution asking [...]
Bright & Early: Getting Creative Edition
Good morning, Nashville. Metro is hatching a new plan to make money by selling naming rights to academic programs, beginning with the Tennessee Credit Union academy of business and finance at Antioch High School. Now, our minds can take this new thing in a number of different directions, but in all fairness, they might be [...]
Bright & Early: We Can Swing That Edition
Good morning, Nashville. Metro Councilman Mike Jameson has suggested that the Metro Development and Housing Agency stop buying up all of the land around the proposed Music City Center until the project is actually approved. Some businesses targeted by MDHA aren’t going down without a fight, such as the Musicians Hall of Fame–owners claim that [...]
Bright & Early: Not For Lack Of Trying Edition
Good morning, Nashville. Since the initial conversations surrounding Metro’s school rezoning plan last year, many folks have been voicing opposition and claiming that the changes will bring segregation back into the school system. For a long time, Metro has been busing kids from North Nashville into West Nashville and Bellevue to balance out the racial [...]
Happy Hour: Getting The Boot
Williamson County Crime Stoppers are offering up to $1,000 for information and tips leading to the arrest of the charming folks who spray-painted anti-gay, white power, and KKK-related graffiti all over a Franklin subdivision. [Tennessean] Mt. Juliet chose not to opt out of the guns-in-parks bill unlike several other cities and towns in middle Tennessee. [...]
Bright & Early: Live And Learn Edition
Good morning, Nashville. Although Metro schools barely made the cut for No Child Left Behind, the state has decided to pull their contract for providing GED services because officials weren’t happy with how it was being handled. Consequently, the program has been handed off to local charities like the YWCA who can provide the classes [...]
Spring Starts With Free Rita’s Italian Ice [Freebies]
You may remember our excitement last year upon learning that Rita’s Italian Ice was opening relatively close to Nashville, out in good ol’ Hermitage (and coming soon to Mt. Juliet). Now, for Rita’s newbies, let us explain something. Every year, on the first day of spring, Rita’s dishes out free italian ice all day. And [...]
Bright & Early: Yes They Can Edition
Good morning, Nashville. MTSU folks were busy this weekend protesting the Board of Regents’ bright idea to save money by charging tuition by the class instead of by the semester. The students, who organized a coalition called Save Our Schools around the effort, say that what might save money for the school and the state [...]
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