• PSA: All of the early voting locations will be open this Friday for the August 1 metro election.
• There will be fewer scooters on the road (and mostly the sidewalks) soon thanks to a bill moving through the Metro Council aimed as a compromise for the proposed ban that failed two weeks ago. It remains to be seen if the new regulations will be followed.
• Kirkpatrick Park, part of the “Envision Cayce” plan, opened with a ribbon cutting Tuesday in East Nashville as the second mixed income housing development.
• Police say more than 1,000 rocks were thrown off the downtown train trestle at Bicentennial Mall downtown. Your guess is as good as ours for “why?”
• State Senator Brenda Gilmore and others launched a new program Wednesday aimed at restoring the voting rights of people who have completed their time in prison.
• If you ever wanted to own a brick from a Vanderbilt dorm, they will be on sale as part of a sponsorship package for Saturday’s scheduled implosion on West End Avenue.
• A Nashville police sergeant has written and recorded a song to benefit the city’s fallen officers, titled “We are the Good Guys,” after the death of officer John Anderson earlier this month.
• With several recent earthquakes in the news, The Tennessean takes a look at damage risks from the New Madrid fault line in West Tennessee. Nashville sits between two seismic zones, but is not any significant danger.
• The site of a former Family Dollar near Five Points in East Nashville will become a Brewsters sports bar, joining several other sports bars already within a few blocks of it. We don’t make these decisions.
• A  Nashville police officer has been decommissioned following a domestic assault arrest where she and her boyfriend were both charged.
• A pedestrian died after being struck by a dump truck Tuesday morning when witnesses say he attempted to cross between vehicles downtown.
• The remains of a Korean War veteran killed in action in 1950 landed in Nashville Wednesday morning on has way back to Kentucky for a proper burial. PFC James Williams had been interred in Honolulu before being positively identified last year.
• The SEC Media Days will be held in Nashville in 2021, offering fans the ability to sit in on what amounts to an over-produced press conference. We also don’t make these decisions.
• Did you know there’s a Tennessee connection to this week’s 50th anniversary of the first moon landing?

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