• The Metro Council approved a $130,000 settlement with a woman stemming from a traffic stop in 2011 in which she was arrested for the minor offense of running a stop sign. It is one of the larger officer misconduct settlements paid out o by the city.
• Remember that indoor drive-in theater we wrote about last year? The project has been delayed numerous times to miss its original 2018 opening and now appears to have a second location in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee. Basically, don’t hold your breath.
• A restaurant building that has been shuttered since 2014 may soon meet the wrecking ball to finish off what an infamous appearance on “Kitchen Nightmares” started. Gordon Ramsay probably doesn’t miss it.
• A lawsuit brought by the union representing Nashville’s police officers has been dismissed, with the judge allowing the November ballot referendum to create a community oversight board to go forward. The backers of the measure want to create the board to handle cases of officer misconduct.
• The Music City Star, Nashville’s commuter rail service, will be cutting Friday night service and shuffling weekday service to create enough cost savings to pay a $20 million system upgrade mandated by federal regulators. The safety control would reduce the chance of derailments at high speeds.
• The number of juvenile arrests has dropped in Nashville after the creation of a task force aimed at addressing the issue last year. Officials are not celebrating quite yet, as their are still regular robberies and shootings involving people under the age of 18.
• The downtown Nashville Public Library will have a permanent exhibit for the passage of the 19th Amendment which granted women the right to vote in the United States. Tennessee played a pivotal role in the ratification of the amendment.
• A Nashville man was sentenced to 15 months in federal prison for bribing a postal worker to hold on to a package that was later discovered to contain about two pounds of marijuana.
• A study presented this week shows that Nashville government contracts are disproportionately avoiding women and minority owned businesses. The Metro Council has created a committee to address the findings.
• The Tennessean takes a look at the Cleveland Park neighborhood in East Nashville, one that is undergoing rapid change with new buildings and fewer current residents being able to afford the rising rents.
• It’s a rough business to be a horse-drawn carriage driver downtown, as a recent Transportation & Parking Committee meeting proved tense as operators threw accusations and formal complaints at one another during the three hour session. Apparently they don’t even wave at one another. ?
• There will be a party for the dogs this weekend at Nashville Shores as the park closes for the season. Ticket sales benefit a local non-profit.

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