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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: A Nashville Party Don’t Stop Edition
Good morning, Nashville. We hope that at least a few of you are out enjoying the giant party downtown this morning for Employee Appreciation Day. Mayor Dean kicked it off at 8am with free breakfast from Puckett’s, and Nashville’s Largest Coffee Break happens at 9:30am. There’s also a Preds ice cream social later and some [...]
Bright & Early: The Best Policy Edition
Good morning, Nashville. State officials are starting to uncover cases of fraud related to flood assistance where people were collecting emergency food stamps and cash assistance when their houses or apartments never actually flooded. Since the pool of available assistance is stretched already, the fraud is hurtful enough that DHS is pulling out all the [...]
Here’s The Deal: Post-Flood Progress Report [Flood 2010]
We’re finally starting to wrap our minds around the damage to our city as best we can, and we continue to have our minds blown at the progress that’s being made on the clean-up each day. We’ve got quite the mess on our hands and we’re dealing with it, because that’s what we do. We’ve [...]
Bright & Early: Cuddly As A Cactus Edition
Good morning, Nashville. It’s the holiday season and the sound of Christmas music fills the air downtown thanks to those giant speaker-boxes on every street corner. The extra dose of holiday flavor makes just about everyone a little more cheerful–everyone, that is, except for the state workers in the Rachel Jackson Building on Sixth and [...]
Happy Hour: Things Might Be Looking Up Edition
78 of Tennessee’s 95 counties saw a decrease in their unemployment rate last month, and Perry County (remember when their unemployment reached 26%?) saw the biggest drop. However, many folks point out that the numbers only mean that less folks are looking for jobs and don’t reflect actual unemployment. [Tennessean] The TVA had a little [...]
Bright & Early: Slow Clap For TDOT Edition
Good morning, Nashville. We have a Very Important Announcement to make: The mobile home has been cleared from I-40, finally, approximately 36 hours after getting wedged under the Elm Hill Pike overpass. What you see above is a TDOT traffic map with no “Incident” marker at exit 216, which is something we haven’t seen since [...]
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