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Bright & Early: Dreary Friday Edition
Good morning, Nashville. Last night’s storm system dumped about 1-3 inches of rain on us here in Middle Tennessee, bringing some strong winds and tornado scares along with it. The Nashville Electric Service reported that there were an estimated 24,500 people without power last night, but had restored all but about 1,140 as of this morning. [...]
Happy Hour: Sky’s Not Falling
Tragic as the Gulf oil spill is (especially now that the Boston Globe gave us a look inside) we are happy to hear that it won’t be hitting northwest Tennessee anytime soon, since apparently some folks were concerned, for some reason. [Post Politics] Everyone on Capitol Hill is breathing a big sigh of relief now [...]
Bright & Early: Dredging The Day Away Edition
Good morning, Nashville. It was a rough weekend for East Tennessee after some Department of Energy contractors accidentally poisoned 30,000 fish in Oak Ridge. On top of that, news surfaced of floodwaters causing some of the spilled Kingston coal ash to wash back into the Tennessee River and turn it a nasty shade of grey. [...]
Happy Hour: One Hump Or Two?
A rogue camel that escaped from a petting zoo in Dickson was found strolling around town today. In its defense, it was a pretty nice day for a walk! [Tennessee] And holy crap, it’s like Christmas! We’re accepting all $4.5 billion of the stimulus money here in Tennessee, contrary to what we heard a few [...]
Bright & Early: Freezing Our Bums Off Edition
Good morning, Nashville. Our fingers are a little too frozen to type this morning. In the words of the SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT issued by the National Weather Service over the weekend, “BY THE WAY…NASHVILLE AIRPORT HAS NOT SEEN SINGLE DIGIT READINGS SINCE A TEMPERATURE OF 2 DEGREES ON JANUARY 24TH OF 2003.” Which really puts [...]
Happy Hour: Lead Toys No More
You may have forgotten about the Chinese Poison Train of Long Long Ago (okay, so it was only 2007) when the Chinese were found to be exporting lead-tainted toys through Mattel. Tennessee was one of 36 states to investigate Mattel and today we got $239K out of a settlement agreement. Gotta make our money somewhere, [...]
Happy Hour: Two Days To Turkeyday
After finally locating a Christmas tree for the city (though it would have been kinda cool to have the National Guard to airlift one from Mt. Juliet), NES chopped it down today despite protests from the environmentalists. The tree was 60 years old. [Tennessean] A couple of generous Nashville celebrities kicked off the Thanksgiving season [...]
Happy Hour: Threat Level Orange
MTSU is starting to look like quite the new hotbed for terrorism with yet another evacuation due to a suspicious package camped outside of Peck Hall. Good news is, it turned out to be a box of paper towels. [WKRN] Continuing the rash of uncoolness in Green Hills, the GameStop on Glen Echo was robbed [...]
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