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Bright & Early: Tightening The Belt Edition
Good morning, Nashville. The Board of Education approved the 2011-12 budget for Metro Schools last night, which means it’s well on its way to Metro Council and Mayor for final approval. Thanks to some federal stimulus funds ending, they expect to suffer a net loss of 430 positions next year including 80-100 classroom teachers. Though the [...]
Bright & Early: Stay In Shape Edition
Good morning, Nashville. With football season rapidly approaching, the lockout situation is getting a little more dire. Players are asking for an injunction to stop the lockout, which was instituted earlier this month, while the NFL is asking a federal judge to uphold it, as they say there’s no legal grounds to stop it. Meanwhile, [...]
Bright & Early: Troubled Water Edition
Good morning, Nashville. It’s been two years since Metro started up a program to deal with the backlog of stormwater issues, tacking a special fee onto water bills intended to generate enough revenue to pay for all the fixes. So far, just 246 stormwater projects of 3,277 have been completed and some folks are concerned [...]
Bright & Early: You’re Doing It Wrong Edition
Good morning, Nashville. Things got a little rowdy at the Vanderbilt-UT game last night when Vanderbilt mascot Mister C totally decked a Commodores fan in the face. A Commodores fan! The guy left the arena with a bloody nose and presumably a bruised ego, having been betrayed by one of his own. And in that [...]
Bright & Early: The Little Tree That Couldn’t Edition
Good morning, Nashville. As we were nonchalantly scrolling through Twitter feed this morning, we stumbled across a report that the Tennessee Christmas tree had taken a small tumble in the wind. Actually, it took a big tumble and appears to be broken. Oh no! Sure, it was a tad bit lopsided and maybe lacked a [...]
Happy Hour: At Least There Are Cute Baby Animals
We might not be accomplishing much in this state this year, but we’ll at least have green vending machines. [WSMV] And Tennessee’s revenue shortfall for the month of April? $112 million. [WTVF] But enough about that! The Nashville Zoo welcomed some cute (and we mean REALLY cute) clouded leopard cubs which are apparently quite rare. [...]
Happy Hour: Stimulate This
Tennessee is getting a boatload of stimulus money to help repair and weatherize low-income homes in hopes of saving money on utilities. [Tennessean] Williamson County is putting the kibosh on the Young Adult Library Services Association’s 2009 list of Best Books for Young Adults because the list recommends some borderline-inappropriate reading materials. The books in [...]
Bright & Early: Here’s A Llama, There’s A Llama Edition
Good morning, Nashville. In case you didn’t catch Governor Phil’s budget talk last night (it’s okay, we didn’t either), he announced a few pretty-big-but-predictable changes that will be happening over the next few years and will hopefully make the state a little less broke than we are right now. Overall, he wants to scale back [...]
Bright & Early: Just Like Fine Wine Edition
Good morning, Nashville. Despite all our best efforts and heartfelt w(h)ining, it doesn’t look like we’ll be seeing wine in the grocery store anytime soon. A poll of lawmakers last week revealed that more than half of them are undecided on the issue because they’re not sure we’re ready to overhaul the state’s liquor distribution [...]
Bright & Early: Outside Looking In Edition
Good morning, Nashville. The federal Government Accountability Office published a new report this week taking a good, hard look at the local immigration enforcement programs across the country including the one in Davidson County. Though Nashville’s 287(g) program resulted in the deportation of around 3,000 undocumented immigrants, the report questions whether it’s actually doing what [...]
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