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Bright & Early: Around And Around We Go Edition
Good morning, Nashville. Quick tour of the headlines this morning: Davidson County’s unemployment rate shot up 0.6% from May to June, landing at 9.1%. This is still 0.7% lower than the statewide average. [City Paper] The Country Music Hall of Fame will be getting one heck of a makeover soon that will more than double [...]
Bright & Early: Festivus For The Rest Of Us Edition
Good morning, Nashville. Spring Hill rejected the zoning request for Festival Tennessee, a proposed theme park that started arousing suspicion from the moment it was announced last month. Though developers promised roller coasters, a water park, the largest hotel complex in the world, a sportsplex, an NBA team and 15,000-20,000 jobs, digging into their past [...]
The Other Best-Of: Toast Of Music City Voting Ends June 20
Just a few days left for you to pick your favorite local restaurants, bars, celebrities, blogs (ahem) and more in The Tennessean’s 3rd annual Toast of Music City contest. Voting ends on June 20, and from now until then, you can vote once a day. While winning the “Best Blog” title in 2009 was great (and [...]
Bright & Early: It’s Never Going To Snow Here Edition
Good morning, Nashville. We hope you survived Snowpocalypse 2009, though we didn’t experience a whole lot of wintery weather worth writing home about here in Middle Tennessee. Our neighbors to the east, however, were a different story. Up in the northeastern corner of the state, Scott County emergency personnel are still working to repair some [...]
Happy Hour: Uncorked
A study by some folks in New York uncovered a significant loophole in gun sales in Tennessee. In many cases, firearms were sold to undercover investigators who told salespeople that they probably couldn’t pass a background check. [WSMV] The 9-year old autistic girl who led police on a high-speed chase in her parents’ car a [...]
Bright & Early: Rough Weekend Edition
Good morning, Nashville. A Billy Currington concert in Alberta, Canada went horribly wrong over the weekend when a storm blew through and caused the stage to collapse. Though they tried to clear the stage about three minutes before the storm hit, one person was killed and fifteen other folks were injured. Currington managed to escape [...]
Bright & Early: What’s For Breakfast Edition
Good morning, Nashville. A recent study by a food security-focused nonprofit revealed that Tennessee is one of 11 states where over 20% of kids under 18 are at risk for hunger, which comes out to about 300,000. Around 77,500 of those kids are under the age of 5. According to the president of Second Harvest [...]
Happy Hour: We Can Sag If We Want To
What a relief it is to know that we probably will not be fined for showing the cracks of our butts anytime soon! Our heroic state attorney general said that the Saggy Pants Bill is “arguably unconstitutionally vague because it does not set forth a standard for its violation that may be readily understood.” Phew. [...]
Happy Hour: Who Would Jesus Sue?
The family whose land almost became home to Bible Park USA in Rutherford County are now suing the pants off the county and county attorney for not approving the park and thus ruining the land deal. Team Rutherford County FTW! [Tennessean] This is seriously the creepiest picture of a probable sex offender we’ve ever seen, [...]
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