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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: Governor Phil To Governor Bill Edition
Good morning, Nashville. The barrage of robocalls and campaign commercials is finally over, Election Day went off (mostly) without a hitch, and our new governor-elect is Bill Haslam, who raked in nearly double the votes that his Democratic opponent did. Weirdly enough, this guy came in third while Crazy Man James checked in near the [...]
Happy Hour: Counting With Both Hands
Get your live election results here when the polls start closing around 8pm/7pm CST. [Tennessean] An MTSU professor drove his water-powered car from Bristol to Memphis yesterday. The vehicle runs on tap water and solar power and can go 400 miles before refueling. [WSMV] Aspiring teachers will soon have to have videos of their classrooms [...]
Basil Marceaux Sings “America The Beautiful” [Goobernatorial]
Basil Marceaux – America the Beautiful by nashvillest In honor of Election Day here in Tennessee, we want to lighten things up a bit by sharing this rousing rendition of “America The Beautiful” by gubernatorial write-in candidate Basil Marceaux. Enjoy (and seriously, go vote!) [Basil Marceaux Music via Wonkette]
Bright & Early: See You At The Poll Edition
Good morning, Nashville. It’s Election Day! If you weren’t one of the hundreds of thousands of Tennesseans who voted early, be sure you take a few minutes to research the candidates and head to the polls today. You can find out where to vote at the Davidson County Election Commission, unless the site is down [...]
Happy Hour: Turn, Turn, Turn
The early voting numbers are pretty sad for Davidson, Williamson and a handful of other counties around Tennessee. If you haven’t voted yet, check out all the election information and be sure to snag the “I Voted” Foursquare badge if you’re into that. [Tennessean] Vince Young made his first practice appearance today since he twisted [...]
Bright & Early: Stirring The Pot Edition
Good morning, Nashville. We would be remiss if we didn’t mention all the storms headed our way, though we suspect you’ve already looked out the window this morning and seen for yourselves. As of 9:30am, all of Middle Tennessee was placed under a tornado watch until 5pm for a particularly nasty line of storms that’s [...]
Happy Hour: With A Buzz In Our Ears
That suspicious package from this morning turned out to be a backpack full of clothes. [WTVF] Early voting started today for the gubernatorial election! Get thee to the polls. [WTVF] Headline of the day, courtesy of News Channel 5: “Men say they didn’t run nude through big cat refuge.” The mugshots are pretty priceless as [...]
Happy Hour: Birds Flying High
So that storm was a doozy, eh? Three big lightning strikes were enough to take down the city’s 911 dispatching system, or most of it, leaving operators to record calls by pen and paper. [WTVF] Organizers are now taking questions for Mike McWherter and Bill Haslam’s September 14th debate, so send ‘em some good ones [...]
Bright & Early: Race To The Top Edition
Good morning, Nashville. The votes are in and now here’s the news you have all been waiting for: Basil Marceaux managed to run away with 3,505 votes, which is less than 1% of the total. The members of illustrious staff were kind enough to let him record a “consolation speech” and are already pimping him [...]
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