- Happy Valentine’s Day! ?
- Nashville Mayor David Briley signed an executive order Monday that seeks to build more pathways for LGBT-owned companies to do business with Metro, the first such policy in a Southern city. The order aligns the city’s policies with that of several of its major employers.
- The saga of a contractor accused of over-billing the city continues, this time centering around two “liaison” employees that spend their time representing the company’s interests to metro government and community groups.
- The Nashville Scene has released the “Love Issue,” with tips for the perfect date night.
- The Metro Nashville Police Department will no longer provide school resource officers for the city’s two alternative schools, citing frequent verbal abuse by the students there. The school district has hired four private security personnel as a stop-gap measure.
- A confidential report found that the school district is also facing a “morale crisis,” and that a particular human resources official should be terminated or retrained. The report was prepared by a local law firm retained to handle ongoing legal matters.
- Just in time for Valentine’s Day, you should know it’s also skunk mating season.
- Popular bar and music venue Bobby’s Idle Hour will relocate a few blocks from its current location after facing eviction from developers who had bought the Music Row property. The building had been included in a preservation group’s list of most endangered.
- The Nashville Predators (33-21-5) have dropped three games in a row, with the most recent coming from a 3-2 loss to the Detroit Red Wings (22-28-7) Tuesday night. The team hosts the Montreal Canadiens (31-18-7) tonight before heading on the road to the Vegas Golden Knights (31-23-4) Saturday.
- Check out this cake for Lindsey Vonn. ?
- A local woman was able to go from homeless to a job as a data center technician thanks to a training program offered by Goodwill Industries of Middle Tennessee.
- The Nashville International Airport ranked among the top 10 airports in the country for gun confiscations in security lines. Seriously, leave them at home (or in checked baggage).
- PETA staged a demonstration on Lower Broadway where protesters in their underwear cuddled with signs with slogans like “Vegans Make Better Lovers.” Okay then.
- Tanger Outlets announced in their quarterly earnings report that they will be locating an outlet mall in the downtown area in a mixed use development. No other specifics were released. ?
- WPLN has a feature story on the retiring manager of the Municipal Auditorium, the domed 9,700 seat arena near the capitol.
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