• PSA: Early voting for the August 2 primaries and city elections opens tomorrow at the Howard School Building in Nashville and runs through July 28. We are electing a new United States Senator and Governor in November.
• The identities of thousands of HIV-positive people — both alive and dead — were left in an unsecured database at the Metro Health Department for nine months that could be easily accessed by anyone on the network. The department cannot say for certain whether the data was ever accessed or copied by staff members.
• In an unrelated story, the Metro Health Department is offering free Hepatitis A vaccines after a Germantown bartender tested positive for the disease. The city has nearly 40 confirmed cases in the current outbreak.
• The Nashville MTA has rebranded itself as “WeGo Transit” this morning, changing their Twitter handle and profile pics over. The re-branding effort comes as 31 new buses and 19 new vans prepare to hit the streets
• WKRN says that the Gulch is the fastest growing neighborhood in Nashville, according to a real estate service. With every other neighborhood being called __ Gulch, we think that’s a little suspect.
• Metro Nashville Public Schools needs to hire about 189 teachers and staff members before school starts next month. This is actually a lower figure than in previous years.
• Two Nashville convenience stores were padlocked by MNPD and declared “public nuisances” because of the number of times police were dispatched to the locations for violent crimes. Both stores are located off Lafayette Street to the southeast of downtown, and one of the owners was arrested for theft.
• Luke Bryan is joining the absurdly long list of male (we’re told it’s) country music personalities to open a bar on Lower Broadway, which makes us wonder what we did to deserve this fate. Those poor Lyft drivers having to keep them all straight.
• Central BBQ from Memphis has announced that it will be expanding to the Nashville market in 2019, adding to an already crowded and tasty BBQ landscape in the city. You will get a lot of differing opinions if you ask Memphians about them.
• Did you know Nashville is a destination for recording video game music?
• A proposal before Metro Council to sell off a bus maintenance facility has run into opposition on the MNPS board, which could result in an even deeper budget hole for the system. The property was traded for the Murrell school and Edmondson home-site  in last month’s budget after that sale was widely opposed by the community.
• The median price for a single-family home in Nashville is now $314,900, a $21,000 increase, according a local real estate group.
• The State of Tennessee will not say what tax incentives beyond the $17.5 million grant will be used to complete a deal to relocate AllianceBertstein’s headquarters to Nashville. This is actually fairly common in these deals and state law has allowed specifics of the incentives to be treated as proprietary information for more than four decades.
• And finally, take a quick tour of how the Nashville Zoo keeps all of their animals fed.

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