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Bright & Early: Wine Whine Edition
Good morning, Nashville. We’ve been hearing some buzz this year about the wine in grocery stores debate coming back to the forefront in the legislature. Turns out lawmakers are considering several proposals that could at least get us a little closer to being able to buy wine in the grocery store like normal people. Option [...]
Bright & Early: Tightening The Belt Edition
Good morning, Nashville. The Board of Education approved the 2011-12 budget for Metro Schools last night, which means it’s well on its way to Metro Council and Mayor for final approval. Thanks to some federal stimulus funds ending, they expect to suffer a net loss of 430 positions next year including 80-100 classroom teachers. Though the [...]
Bright & Early: Stay In Shape Edition
Good morning, Nashville. With football season rapidly approaching, the lockout situation is getting a little more dire. Players are asking for an injunction to stop the lockout, which was instituted earlier this month, while the NFL is asking a federal judge to uphold it, as they say there’s no legal grounds to stop it. Meanwhile, [...]
Bright & Early: Troubled Water Edition
Good morning, Nashville. It’s been two years since Metro started up a program to deal with the backlog of stormwater issues, tacking a special fee onto water bills intended to generate enough revenue to pay for all the fixes. So far, just 246 stormwater projects of 3,277 have been completed and some folks are concerned [...]
Bright & Early: You’re Doing It Wrong Edition
Good morning, Nashville. Things got a little rowdy at the Vanderbilt-UT game last night when Vanderbilt mascot Mister C totally decked a Commodores fan in the face. A Commodores fan! The guy left the arena with a bloody nose and presumably a bruised ego, having been betrayed by one of his own. And in that [...]
Happy Hour: And Stay Out!
Well, obviously the big news tonight is that the Titans are suing Lane Kiffin for poaching one of their coaches. Poaching a coach, they say! It even rhymes. Anyway, this should ensure that Lane Kiffin will never be able to so much as drive through Tennessee without having his tires slashed. [Tennessean] East Tennessee is [...]
Bright & Early: The State Of Things Edition
Good morning, Nashville. This morning, Mayor Dean will be delivering his annual State of the Metro address at 10am in Riverfront Park. He’s expected to deliver all sorts of bad news about the proposed budget for next year, which will be presented to Metro after the address. As we’re all amply aware, it’s been a [...]
Happy Hour: Revenge Of The Tennessee State Fair
The Tennessee State Fair is back! We thought it was dead ‘n’ gone with the passing of the State Fairgrounds, but since the Fairgrounds have an extension, so does the Fair. More good news is that a private company will be running it so hopefully it won’t suck as much. [Tennessean] Nashville is safe. Nashville [...]
Happy Hour: Keeping The Peace
University of Tennessee will be doling out an “honorary doctor of laws and humane letters in ecology and evolutionary biology” to ol’ Al Gore in the spring. We don’t know what that even means. [WTVF] UT also approved some tuition hikes today for UT-Knoxville students in the colleges of Business, Engineering, and Nursing. [WTVF] And [...]
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