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Bright & Early: It’s A Cluster Edition
Good morning, Nashville. If ever there were a perfect storm of traffic congestion downtown Nashville, tonight would be the night. Road closures for the Titans’ final preseason game will start at 4:30pm, followed by the wave of folks pouring into the Bridgestone Arena for Brooks & Dunn’s last-ever show (well, until the inevitable reunion tour). [...]
Bright & Early: What’s The Plan Edition
Good morning, Nashville. We’re definitely in the thick of budget season at both the state and local levels, which has been complicated all the more by last month’s pesky flood. Yesterday, the Metro Council deferred a bill that would’ve increased Metro’s minimum wage for full-time workers to $10.77 and given all employees a 2% raise. [...]
Bright & Early: Jumping For Joy Edition
Good morning, Nashville. Yesterday we heard the news that Tennessee would be raking in $500 million of new stimulus money to give a much-needed boost to the state’s struggling school systems. But how much is in it for Metro? Initial estimates are $24 million, and the catch is that none of the funds can be [...]
Bright & Early: Must Love Babies Edition
Good morning, Nashville. An unemployment rate of 9.1% has left lots of folks bored and too broke to go out and do anything, which seems to us to be the only reasonable explanation for this little baby boom we’re experiencing here in Tennessee. Shelby, Davidson, and Rutherford Counties cranked out the most babies in the [...]
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