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Bright & Early: Vote Vote Vote Edition

Good morning, Nashville. It’s Election Day around here in Davidson County, so if you didn’t make it out for early voting, get yo’ butts to the polls! Find out where to vote, who’s running, a sample ballot (PDF alert) and all sorts of other election-y things over at the Davidson County Election Commission. This is [...]

Bright & Early: Do You Believe In Magic Edition

Good morning, Nashville. We’ve all heard about the federal budget woes ad nauseum over the past few weeks, and now the money troubles are hitting us where it really hurts: Our airport. The Nashville International Airport has been undergoing some extensive renovations recently  which have resulted in some awfully confusing Monday mornings trying to pick our way around construction [...]

Bright & Early: Ppppttthhhhhhbbbbbttt Edition

Good morning, Nashville. News Channel 5′s investigative team continues to dig up dirt on Davidson County Clerk John Arriola (whose last name, by the way, is one of our least favorite things to type in a news item each day), this time bringing to light the taxpayer-funded $33,000 Chevy Tahoe he drives instead of the more [...]

Bright & Early: Where’s The Beef Edition

Good morning, Nashville. We’re rushing a bit this morning, so here’s your abbreviated Bright & Early: Many of us are mourning the loss of legendary Nashville radio DJ Coyote McCloud, 68, who died last night on his houseboat in Percy Priest Lake. McCloud had been suffering from liver cirrhosis for quite some time and passed [...]

Bright & Early: Manic Tuesday Edition

Good morning, Nashville. We’re running behind, so you know the drill. Your abbreviated Bright & Early: Sun is in the forecast today! Lots of sun! Hallelujah.  [Nashville WX] If you see a big disturbance and a bunch of flashing emergency lights around the airport today and tomorrow, don’t freak out! They’re just doing their annual [...]

Happy Hour: Happy Trails

The airport seems to be an awfully popular place to grow marijuana these days! [WTVF] For the first time since 2004, Tennessee’s unemployment rate–9.4% for the month of September–is actually lower than the national average. [Post Business] BREAKING: Traffic slow in Green Hills. [Tennessean] Titans wider receiver Kenny Britt has been excused from practice following [...]

Bright & Early: As We Walk In Fields Of Green Edition

Good morning, Nashville. Picture this: You’re on a plane just sitting in one of those little seats with your complimentary beverage, snacking on some lightly-salted peanuts while eagerly reading Twilight on your Kindle™, and the flight attendants begin preparing the cabin for landing. They chatter over the loudspeaker, maybe do a little song and dance routine [...]

Happy Hour: Big Shoes To Fill

Nashville survived the latest round of cuts to join a list of 18 cities who are still being considered for hosting the 2018 or 2022 World Cup. [WPLN] An air traffic control tower burst into flames at the Nashville Airport this afternoon and shut down the whole airport! … Okay, fine. There was a small [...]

Bright & Early: This Is Just A Drill Edition

Good morning, Nashville. Today is the day that the Nashville International Airport will be inciting mass panic by way of a “full-scale disaster exercise” involving a pretend plane crash complete with painted-up victims and emergency vehicles and helicopters and fake news crews and probably smoke bombs galore. Since this will be completely visible from both [...]

Bright & Early: Lights Out Edition

Good morning, Nashville. Businesses downtown are resorting to some pretty drastic measures in order to save money and electricity: They’re actually turning off the lights when they leave at night. In the name of good stewardship (and saving hundreds of thousands of dollars), some are even installing timers to shut off the lights at 9pm–so [...]