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Bright & Early: Racing In Circles Edition
Good morning, Nashville. Fairgrounds supporters are up in arms after discovering a request for proposals issued by the city for companies interested in taking on a new park project at the Fairgrounds. The problem is, the RFP refers to the “former fairgrounds” and “former racetrack,” so some folks believe this is the mayor’s way of [...]
Bright & Early: Digging To China Edition
Good morning, Nashville. Despite the fact that we’ve all been navigating around the convention center construction and road closures for several weeks, the “groundbreaking” ceremony is scheduled for Monday. During that time, the Mayor and other city leaders will do that thing where they put on hard hats and pretend to dig important holes while [...]
Happy Hour: Don’t Breathe Unless You Have To
Lest we forget about the folks in Kingston and their nasty, nasty TVA ash spill back in December, more reports of health problems are rolling in by the day. Also, more than 200 residents have stepped up in the class action suit against the TVA with more on the way. [Pith In The Wind] We [...]
Bright & Early: Hugging Some Trees Edition
Good morning, Nashville. If you’re coming in late in the game, you may not remember all the talk about creating a “second downtown” in the Bells Bend area, which is currently a rural space in West Nashville. The proposed May Town Center, touted as “a town, within a park, within a city,” (creepy Utopian-looking video [...]
Happy Hour: Buyer’s Remorse
The fingerprints of Elvis, one of the most famous Tennesseans ever, went for nearly $82K at an overseas auction yesterday. Apparently there are some big Elvis fans on the other side of the pond. [WSMV] It looks like there’s a McCain rally and debate party in the works since a group filed a request to [...]
Bright & Early: Welcome Home Edition
Good morning, Nashville. Last July, we sent 120 members of the Tennessee National Guard off to Iraq. They’re finally coming home on Sunday, and we couldn’t be happier to have them back. This is the same group that did another Iraq stint in 2003 and also helped clean things up on the Gulf Coast after [...]
Bright & Early: We Could Ride Horses Edition
Good morning, Nashville. Someone at MTA is having the Best Week Ever, after a bus driver fell asleep at the wheel yesterday and ran into a parked car off of Shelby Avenue in East Nashville. Three people were taken to the hospital including the driver, but everyone seems to be okay. Remind us sometime to [...]
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