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Bright & Early: Tweet Tweet Edition
Good morning, Nashville. Metro Police are continuing to investigate Wednesday night’s shooting at Centennial Park that left one juvenile with a gunshot wound to his knee. The whole thing started when a group of kids gathered near the Parthenon while Movies In The Park was going on and eventually began throwing gang signs. Metro’s Gang [...]
Bright & Early: Giant Scary Fish Ahoy Edition
Good morning, Nashville. If you’re the kind of person who enjoys having new things to fear in life, let’s discuss the Asian Carp invasion here in Middle Tennessee. The Tennessee Wildlife Resource Agency is warning boaters that these fish, which were imported into the states for catfish farms in the 1980s, have been spotted in [...]
Happy Hour: Just What Do You Think You’re Doing, Dave?
If anyone has a sweet-looking Victorian home lying around in Nashville and they don’t mind selling it, having it appear in a film, and then be bulldozed in a film, there are some folks who would like to talk to you. [WTVF] And dear goodness, it was beautiful outside today. Thanks to all who mobbed [...]
Happy Hour: We Have A Twittergate!
Councilman Jamie Hollin, the District 5 Metro councilman, has taken to the blogosphere when it comes to the whole to-twitter-or-not-to-twitter debate. After a Council attorney advised that tweeting during Metro Council meetings could be a violation of the Open Meetings Act, Councilman Hollin is putting the question to his constituents. [Jamie Hollin via Post Politics] [...]
Bright & Early: Twittering No More Edition
Good morning, Nashville. If you’ve been enjoying all the live-tweeting and Facebooking by some members of the Metro Council during meetings, you can consider it a thing of the past. The Council attorney warned the twittering council members that such use of social media to inform the public could be a violation of the open [...]
Bright & Early: Neither Here Nor There Edition
Good morning, Nashville. We can’t believe we’re still talking about the Guns in Parks bill, but yesterday the State Attorney General made a few more clarifications about the ways in which the new law can and can’t be enforced. The verdict? If you tote a gun in a city that’s chosen to opt out of [...]
Bright & Early: Don’t Take Our Fair Edition
Good morning, Nashville. If you heard a strange noise last night, it might’ve been the death rattle of the Tennessee State Fair. After an impressive 103-year run, the fair was hoping to make a comeback this time around by going green, adding some newer attractions, stepping up security, and not having this on the menu [...]
Happy Hour: _________ Started The Fire
Did you know that if the four most dangerous chemical treatment plants in Nashville exploded, it could affect more than a million people? Or at least that’s what Greenpeace says. [WSMV] In that same vein, a Duke University study showed that the folks in Kingston have probably been inhaling all sorts of dangerous particles released [...]
Bright & Early: Get On The Bus Edition
Good morning, Nashville. This weekend was a good one for the Titans, who took down the Buffalo Bills 21-18 in their first preseason game of 2009. We hear Kerry Collins put on quite a show until Vince Young took over in the second quarter. The opening game was not without incident, however, as runningbacks Chris [...]
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