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Bright & Early: Will It Or Won’t It Edition
Good morning, Nashville. Local news outlets are all abuzz about Festival Tennessee, a proposed Spring Hill theme park announced at yesterday’s press conference by Big International Group of Entertainment, Inc. The $750 million project would span 1,500 acres and include a water park, roller coasters, movie studios, hotels, a charter school and a sports complex [...]
Bright & Early: Ebb And Flow Edition
Good morning, Nashville. Tennessee lawmakers are all about finding creative ways to boost revenue with the current state of the economy, and they’re now proposing a tax hike for tourists. The state’s hotel tax is nearly 17% already, which is one of the highest rates in the country. The new proposal would tack on an [...]
Happy Hour: Where The Wild Things Are
The Spring Hill GM plant is back up and running for the time being, starting production for the first time in seven weeks today. The next scheduled idling will happen around Thanksgiving. [WKRN] HazMat crews responded to a “small explosion” involving some chlorine tablets and a Metro employee today at the Bicentennial Mall. [WTVF] The [...]
Bright & Early: Just Another Manic Monday Edition
Good morning, Nashville. So this weekend wasn’t quite as relaxing as we’d hoped, but somehow despite the craziness of Steve McNair’s death, our souvenir sunburns from the Hot Chicken Festival, and The Great Fireworks Monsoon of ’09, we’ve still rolled into Monday morning in once piece. As of this morning, developments in the McNair case [...]
Steve McNair Found Shot To Death On 4th Of July [RIP]
We wish we weren’t reporting this news, but police have confirmed that former Tennessee Titan Steve McNair has been shot to death in an apartment at the Rutledge House Condominiums at 2nd Avenue South and Lea Avenue downtown. A female whose identity has not been released was also found dead at the scene, as police responded [...]
Happy Hour: No Touching, No Touching!
Some of you were all a-twitter this morning about a power outage in Cool Springs and Brentwood. The culprit? Some birds playing a little too close to the substation. [Tennessean] For the folks going to Bonnaroo this year, Jimmy Buffet will be making an appearance, or so says band member Nadirah Shakoor’s Twitter. [Tennessean] Senator [...]
Bright & Early: Summertime Rolls Edition
Good morning, Nashville. Today is the last day of school for Metro students, and although we’re not sure we’re ready for them to be running loose and stealing our lawn ornaments all summer, we can certainly remember the importance of this sacred day for the kiddos. And hey, a few less buses and 15 mph [...]










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