Tag Archives: wine in grocery stores
Bright & Early: This Cat Is Wearing A Sweater Edition
Good morning, Nashville. After a somewhat disastrous winter snow-wise, Metro Schools officials are proposing a few major changes to next year’s schedule to accommodate some extra snow days. This, of course, means that temperatures probably won’t dip below 50 degrees next winter because that’s just how things work around here! At any rate, there will [...]
Happy Hour: It Must Be Food Truck Day
A measure that would allow wine to be shipped directly to any house in Tennessee has at least passed the state Senate. So if we can’t buy it in grocery stores, at least we may be able to have it delivered to our front doors. [WTVF] That other bill allowing supermarkets to actually sell wine [...]
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 [...]
Happy Hour: Skate On By
The roads definitely cleared up a bit today, but they’re expected to re-freeze overnight. So be careful! [WKRN] Davidson, Williamson, Rutherford and Sumner County schools are all closed tomorrow along with most others in the midstate. [WSMV] People are predictably upset about how TDOT handled the situation, though TDOT maintains that they did their best. [...]
Bright & Early: Why Not Wine Edition
Good morning, Nashville. The controversial issue of allowing wine to be sold in grocery stores is certainly not a new one, but lawmakers and advocates are taking a slightly different approach this year. The current bill moving through the legislature would give individual counties the opportunity to vote on the issue as early as August. [...]
Happy Hour: We Have Another Situation (Maybe!)
The weatherpeople are calling for another possible Ice/Snow Situation early next week, which means we have six days to come up with another good hashtag. Get to work! [Nashville WX] But considering that the kiddos are already out of snow days, they could be looking at Saturday school or the much-dreaded “extended school year,” which [...]
Happy Hour: We’re All Just Bums
Opponents of selling wine in grocery stores are now proclaiming that if we change the law to allow this kind of sale, we’ll be plagued with an epidemic of “street drinkers” whose unconscious bodies we will have to clear out of our driveways before we go to work every morning. For the love of Shiraz, [...]
Bright & Early: Wine Whine Edition
Good morning, Nashville. After a vicious fight for wine in grocery stores last year, the debate is back on the table for the upcoming legislative session. This time, lawmakers from both sides of the aisle will take up the issue in a Joint Study Committee and they hope to have a full recommendation in about [...]
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