- The Tennessean has a rundown of who is currently running for governor in 2018, who has decided to sit it out and who is still on the fence.
- Good news for drivers and those tire-eating potholes: The city is deploying a “laser van” to identify and document potholes around the city.
- Bellevue will be getting its long-sought high school after the Metro Council approved the capital expenditure Tuesday night. This Hillwood graduate is a bit sad about that.
- The Metro Council also voted to re-allocate money for sidewalks into expanding its bike lane programs. At least one councilman isn’t happy.
- And finally in council news, the downtown flood wall — with portions already in place near Ascend Amphitheater — was again removed from the capital expenditures budget on Tuesday night.
- Fewer drugs arrests at Bonnaroo this year means either you guys were doing less of them, or were better at not getting caught.
- A fire at a Goodwill Industries warehouse Monday did not cause the loss of “anything of value” inside, according to a company spokesperson.
- NewsChannel5 is calling Goat Yoga a “fitness craze”, and we’re calling it “spending too much time in close proximity to a farm animal”.
- The Kurdish community in Nashville is calling recent arrests “targeted enforcement” by Immigration & Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents.
- Vanderbilt Baseball players Kyle Wright and Jeren Kendall were both selected in the first round of the Major League Baseball Draft on Monday.
- An estimated 12.9 million people flew in and out of BNA last year, representing an 11.2 percent growth over the previous period. In case you wonder why you can’t find a place to charge your phone, that’s why.
Photo by Chris Connelly.