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Bright & Early: Banner Year Edition
Good morning, Nashville. With 2010 coming to a close (!!!), it’s that time of year when all of our local news outlets start getting all retrospective on us. City Paper is the first to take a crack at summarizing one of the strangest years in Nashville’s history, highlighting that minor flooding incident (duh!), drama at [...]
Bright & Early: Doing A Dance Edition
Good morning, Nashville. The ongoing quest to get to the bottom of the Army Corps of Engineers’ role in the flood gets more heated by the day. The Corps is being accused of playing the blame game with other agencies like the National Weather Service for their own mistakes. As it turns out, the Corps [...]
Bright & Early: Bottles And Cans Edition
Good morning, Nashville. It’s raining, in case you didn’t notice when you woke up this morning and had the urge to hibernate (or was that just us?). This morning’s storms downed a tree which knocked out power to 2,000 South Nashville residents, but the outage was short lived and these storms should be clearing up [...]
Happy Hour: Wall To Wall
A local church put together and sent out 10,000 health kits to help with the relief work in Haiti. [WSMV] Friends and neighbors of the family that was killed in a duplex fire this morning are hoping to come together and raise some money for the two surviving children. Five people, including the parents and [...]
Bright & Early: Crushing Our Dreams Edition
Good morning, Nashville. A white Christmas is looking a little less likely as we get closer to the holiday. We’ve been reading all sorts of fancy explanations of the impending storm system over the past several days, but now it looks like the weather just isn’t going to be cold enough for more than a [...]
Bright & Early: Fight Or Flight Edition
Good morning, Nashville. An closer look at the financing plan for the proposed Music City Center has revealed that the current proposal would divert close to $14 million in subsidies way from other tourist attractions including the Adventure Science Center, the Preds, the Country Music Hall of Fame, and the Farmer’s Market. Mayor Dean made [...]
Happy Hour: #501broadway Edition
The Nashville Arena GEC Sommet Center will likely be getting yet another name change in the coming months. The Preds ended their naming deal with the Sommet Group by suing them this afternoon, then the Sommet Center issued an angry response, then Mayor Dean weighed in with some Preds love, and then we sat back [...]
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