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Bright & Early: Tough Times Ahead Edition
Good morning, Nashville. We mentioned last week a few times that Perry County, which is only about 90 miles southwest of Nashville, has an unemployment rate of 27%. We had a hard enough time wrapping our minds around that one, but now we’re hearing that it actually has the second highest unemployment rate in the [...]
Bright & Early: Dressed For Success Edition
Good morning, Nashville. For all the squabbling that happened when Metro schools adopted school uniforms, it sounds like they’ve actually helped make the schools safer. Major incidents of violence and assault were down significantly last year, though the number of smaller conflicts were way up in high schools. No one has proven that the uniforms [...]
Bright & Early: Save The Bladderpods Edition
Good morning, Nashville. Here in Middle Tennessee, we have some weird quirks that set us apart from the other two-thirds of the state, ranging from our amphibian diversity to that big Parthenon thing. We learned this morning that there’s also a rare plant that grows here and can’t be found anywhere else in the world–and [...]
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