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Bright & Early: Ease On Down The Road Edition
Good morning, Nashville. After a long, long, long Metro Council meeting last night, they decided to pass the amended fairgrounds bill that will spare the racetrack and fairgrounds from demolition at least through 2012. More than 1,000 folks turned out for the meeting and hundreds of Nashvillians (and lots of non-Nashvillians, oddly enough) spoke on [...]
Happy Hour: Lights, Camera, Action
Belmont’s discrimination debacle landed them front and center on the New York Times’ website today. [NYTimes] Vandy finally landed a new football coach today. Former Maryland offensive coordinator James Franklin hopes to turn the team around after the two straight seasons of a 2-10 record. [Tennessean] Meanwhile in Murfreesboro, mosque opponents plan to keep on [...]
Bright & Early: The State Of Things Edition
Good morning, Nashville. This morning, Mayor Dean will be delivering his annual State of the Metro address at 10am in Riverfront Park. He’s expected to deliver all sorts of bad news about the proposed budget for next year, which will be presented to Metro after the address. As we’re all amply aware, it’s been a [...]
Bright & Early: Kids These Days Edition
Good morning, Nashville. Change is coming to the downtown branch of the Nashville Public Library in February. For some reason they’ve decided that opening a “Teen Wing” with a Wii and four giant plasma TVs in the middle of a library is a good idea. They say they’re doing it to encourage teens to start [...]
Bright & Early: ROFL OMG HAY BFF LOLZ Edition
Good morning, Nashville. With Metro Schools failing at pretty much everything these days, it’s good to see people trying different things… we guess. The principal of Hunters Lane High School recently gave her cell phone number out to every kid in the school and asked them to text her because she feels like it’s a [...]
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