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Bright & Early: Where We Left Off Edition
Good morning, Nashville. Thanks to the NAACP’s lawsuit against Metro Schools over the controversial rezoning measure, about half of the schools in the system have been found to be missing the textbooks they need to start the school year. School officials say that the shortage is so widespread because it’s nothing out of the norm. [...]
Bright & Early: Stop The Bus Edition
Good morning, Nashville. A federal judge ruled in favor of the plaintiff in NAACP’s civil rights lawsuit against Metro Nashville Public Schools and mandated that the child be transferred back to Bellevue Middle School, which is the school she went to before Metro’s controversial rezoning. The judge also ruled that John Early Middle needs to [...]
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 [...]
Bright & Early: The Only Thing To Fear Edition
Good morning, Nashville. Williamson County Schools have figured out at least one way to deal with the new law that allows guns in public parks starting September 1: Canceling the students’ field trips. When the law goes into effect next month, the school system will be canceling every educational trip and sporting event that takes [...]
Bright & Early: School Daze Edition
Good morning, Nashville. We hope you had as much fun as we did fun dodging school zones this morning on your way to work. Even though Metro Schools are back in session today, the kids in Cumberland County might be getting a few more days of summer. Or not. Truthfully, nobody knows. The school system [...]
Happy Hour: Get Well Soon Edition
Word from Memphis is that Morgan Freeman is currently being held in serious condition at Regional Medical Center after a bad car wreck that happened in Mississippi late last night. We don’t mean to be irreverent, but we’re totally impressed that Morgan Freeman drove a ’97 Nissan Maxima. At any rate, Nashvillest wishes him a [...]
Happy Hour: Never Say Die Edition
As predicted, the school rezoning drama is kicking up a notch with today’s statement from the NAACP that the new plan “reeks of racism” and letting everyone know that they’re not going down without a fight. [WTVF] Due to some politics and such, the the End Zone Express shuttle for Titans games is being cut [...]
Happy Hour: All Snowed In Edition
The TVA’s free online energy audits and energy-saving kit giveaways seem to be working, as the numbers more than doubled during the month of June. They’ll be especially useful for making sure your house stays warm with all that snow we’re going get tonight. [Tennessean] The Most Dramatic School Rezoning Plan Ever gets more dramatic [...]
Bright & Early: Huddled Masses Edition
Good morning, Nashville. If you’ve been keeping score in Councilman Eric Crafton’s English First debate, he’s now saying that he has half of the 10,000 signatures he needs to get the ordinance on the ballot this November. If it passes, it’ll require that all city business, communications and publications have to take place in English. [...]
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