• The student-organized event “March For Our Lives” drew thousands of people downtown Saturday morning to advocate for safer schools and to reduce gun violence. Many of those same students participated in walkouts last week and talked to reporters.
• Uh, will the Nashville mayoral elections be in August or May, and who will be running in them? The state’s Supreme Court will begin hearing arguments in early April, putting a real time crunch on would-be candidates if it moved ahead three months.
• The Nashville running community is mourning the death of Peter Pressman, a longtime board member and president of the Nashville Strider’s club and frequently seen on race days as a volunteer. He was 72.
• WPLN takes a look at what would change immediately for the Nashville MTA if the May 1 transit referendum passes. They also conveniently summarized the highlights of the 55-page plan into 803 words.
• Abracadabra? Downtown Nashville will soon have a magic-themed cocktail bar opening April 9 beneath the Johnny Cash Museum. Somebody go and let us know how it is.
• Nashville SC, the new professional soccer club in town, opened their home schedule in front of about 19,000 people at Nissan Stadium. The game ended in a scoreless draw, giving the team its first points in the standings.
• An ongoing dispute between the owners of Opry Mills and their insurance company during the 2010 floods is headed to the Tennessee Supreme Court after a lower court reduced their claim from $200 million to $50 million, citing the flood hazard designation of the area. The mall was closed for nearly two years after the flood.
• The Nashville Predators (48-16-11) got back into the … well, they earned a point (and a Frosty) against the Winnipeg Jets (46-19-10) Sunday night in a 4-5 shootout loss. They had dropped Thursday’s home game against the Toronto Maple Leafs (45-23-7) 5-2 and Saturday’s road game against the Minnesota Wild (42-24-9) 1-4. They host the Wild tomorrow night.
• Six of the last seven games for the Predators are against playoff-bound teams, and they are still chasing home-ice advantage throughout the playoffs.
• The leaders of Nashville Metro General Hospital say that investments now will reduce the overall cost of running the city’s safety net hospital in the long run. The hospital requested $47 million in its annual subsidy from Metro in its budget hearing.
• Somebody else is in the running to fill in the 80-foot crater on West End Avenue affectionately called Lake Palmer, a site that Google Maps even thinks is a body of water after construction stopped in 2007. Look, it’s been so long we can’t get excited about projects allegedly going in there anymore.
• A city bus hit a car Thursday morning at an intersection downtown and jumped the curb into the sign of the former Federal Reserve building on Rosa Parks Avenue. Nine people were hurt in the crash.
• Apparently an assistant coach for the Vanderbilt Football team lives over the garage of head coach Derek Mason. No, you did not just read the premise for a sitcom.
• A bill is advancing through the state legislature that would make it illegal for repeat DUI offenders to purchase alcohol in the state. Offenders would have “No Alcohol” imprinted on their IDs.
• A full-scale emergency preparedness drill was held Saturday morning at Nashville International Airport with more than 100 volunteers aiding emergency response workers with the simulation. The Federal Aviation Administration requires airports to conduct the drills at least once every three years.
• PSA: Go get a free Frosty today if you live or work near a Wendy’s.

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