• Surprise! The Nashville mayoral election will not be in August after the Tennessee Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that city must have its elections at the end of May per the Metro Charter. The new election is set for May 24, with early voting running May 4 through 19.
• Early voting has already started for the May 1 election and transit referendum, so go ahead and get that out of the way.
• A group opposing the transit referendum has majorly irked The Tennessean by submitting an op-ed piece with a fictional author and an unauthorized photo of the supposed submitter. The paper says it is virtually impossible to verify every submission that comes to to them.
• Our long statewide nightmare of not being able to buy wine or liquor on Sundays and holidays is coming to an end, with the State Senate approving a bill by the narrowest possible margin and sending it to the governor’s desk for signature. Grocery stores will have to wait until January 1, 2019 to get in on the action.
• We could be seeing faster mobile internet speeds after a measure sailed through the chambers to begin rolling out so-called 5G speeds as early as 2019. The newer technology could provide speeds “hundreds of times faster” than current equipment.
• In other legislature news, they also advanced a resolution that would begin the process of potentially moving the bodies of former President James K. Polk and his wife to Columbia, Tennessee nearly 100 years after their death. Your guess is as good as ours.
• The Stanley Cup Playoffs (or at least the series we care about) start at 8:30 p.m. tonight at Bridgestone with the Nashville Predators taking on the Colorado Avalanche. Saturday’s game starts at 2:30 p.m., also downtown.
• Former Predator Colin Wilson says that Colton Sissons owes him rent money, which is probably on up there in the list of weirdest story-lines for a playoff series. Well, that and Pekka Rinne says Wilson really, really doesn’t like flying. ?
• We’re digging the new decorations on the John Seigenthaler Pedestrian Bridge. Go Preds!
• The United States Secret Service inspected more than 2,500 gas pumps for so-called credit skimmers, saying that they have found nearly a dozen in the past few weeks. Police warn consumers to watch out for evidence of tampering before using a pump. ⛽
• An investigation that included disturbing security camera footage indicates that the Metro Nashville Police Department is not being proactive in the downtown areas that tourists frequent. The precinct is promising changes in its approach.
• Pretty scary moment for some students near Antioch when a tractor trailer knocked live electrical wires onto three buses. No one was injured.

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