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Bright & Early: Charrrrge Edition
Good morning, Nashville. Well done with the citywide snowball fight last night! We’d guess around 100 of you turned out and pelted each other to your hearts’ content. Battlecries were shouted, alliances were formed, news crews were ambushed, and some strangers even united to build an impressive 7-foot snowman. The snow is supposed to taper off [...]
Happy Hour: Down The Pipe
A new charity effort called NASH2O is putting flood-damaged guitars to good use by auctioning them off as memorabilia and then donating the proceeds to a fund that helps other musicians replaced their own flood-damaged equipment. [Tune In Music City] Budget woes have given way to a possible spending freeze that could seriously reduce or [...]
Bright & Early: Two Countries, No Cup Edition
Good morning, Nashville. After this morning’s big FIFA announcement, it doesn’t look like the World Cup will be moving to this side of the pond anytime soon. Instead, the 2018 World Cup will be held in Russia and the 2022 bid went to Qatar where the average July temperature is 115 degrees and no one [...]
Happy Hour: Clear As Mud
State Rep. Mike Turner believes that a contracting company working on the Music City Center is using illegal immigrants to perform labor because he’s heard complaints from other workers about it. He also mentioned that he’s been to the construction site himself and seen people he suspects are illegal, though we’re not quite sure we [...]
Happy Hour: Fire In The Hole
Since several downtown fire hydrants are out of commission following that disastrous series of water main breaks a few weeks back, the Nashville Fire Department has set up temporary camp by Riverfront Park so they can tap into the Cumberland to fight any fires that might arise. Here’s hoping that whatever pollutants are in the [...]
Bright & Early: It’s A Go Edition
Good morning, Nashville. As predicted, the Music City Center was given the green light by the Metro Council at last night’s meeting. The final vote tally was 29 yeas and 9 nays with Eric Crafton, Michael Craddock, Emily Evans and Mike Jameson among the nays. The next hurdle for the project will be the hotel [...]
Happy Hour: Look For The Warning Signs
All the water main breaks (a total of 60 so far) finally got to Metro Water Services, and this morning they announced that they’ll be replacing more than half of the city’s water infrastructure. [WKRN] The demand for certain GM cars has seemingly risen and the automotive giant is now considering reopening a few plants [...]
Bright & Early: Water Water Everywhere Edition
Good morning, Nashville. We thought that we had put the whole water main break fiasco behind us last week, but then five more of them broke on Lower Broad over the weekend and flooded our main drag. Most businesses along Broadway from 4th Ave. to the riverfront were left without water for the weekend and [...]
Bright & Early: Doing Our Snow Dance Edition
Good morning, Nashville. Weather forecasters are slowly beginning to crush our Snowpocalypse dreams by doing things like downgrading our Winter Storm Watch to a simple advisory and changing our snowfall projections to “around one inch.” Our trusty friends at NashvilleWX still have at least the northern half of Davidson County in the 2-3″ range. But [...]
Bright & Early: Fight Or Flight Edition
Good morning, Nashville. An closer look at the financing plan for the proposed Music City Center has revealed that the current proposal would divert close to $14 million in subsidies way from other tourist attractions including the Adventure Science Center, the Preds, the Country Music Hall of Fame, and the Farmer’s Market. Mayor Dean made [...]
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