• The National Weather Service confirms what the sweat on our foreheads kinda already knew: April was a rather hot month in Nashville.
• If you were worried about wayward Brentwood resident “Jack the Wallaby”, you can breathe easy knowing he’s safe now.
• Just in time for cookout season, you should know that we rank tenth in the country in mosquito population.
• After several hours of public comment, the council ended up deferring action on a bill Tuesday night that would have banned the use of investor-owned properties for short-term rentals (such as those from Airbnb and HomeAway).
• The council had a far less difficult time voting to rename Capitol Blvd, a one-block street between 6th and 7th Avenue downtown, Anne Dallas Dudley Boulevard. The namesake was key figure (and unequivocal badass) in the women’s suffrage movement in Tennessee.
• We’ll let the headline tell the story on this one:  ‘Drunk on a Plane’ Singer Appointed to Airport Authority
• The Nashville Predators now hold a commanding 3-1 series lead over the St. Louis Blues after their 2-1 win Tuesday night. That’s good news for Nashville mayor Megan Barry, who placed a bet with her counterpart in the The Gateway City.
• Blues suck, pass it on!
• Your phone probably scared the crap out of you Wednesday morning with an AMBER alert for a missing 15 year-old from Rhea County. In a wild plot twist, the minor is now being charged as an accomplice to the murder of a Bellevue gas station clerk.
• Johnny Cash once sang “Son, leave your guns at home.” Apparently the Tennessee legislature hasn’t gotten the memo from the Man in Black, as they now want to allow them on MTA busses.
• Public Works is allowing (or at least, not stopping) neighborhoods to come up with and implement their own traffic-calming strategies.

Photo by Chris Wage.