• PSA: Early voting begins tomorrow downtown and runs through September 7 ahead of the September 12 run-off election.
• The CEO of a civil engineering firm says the stress of working with Metro caused an employee to attempt to kill a coworker last week with a knife. Our jobs are apparently not nearly that stressful.
• Several dozen people gathered in North Nashville Monday morning to protest local cooperation with the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency. The recent standoff in Hermitage where neighbors intervened highlighted the distrust.
• Amazon will open a physical bookstore in the Green Hills Mall, the company announced Monday. Independent booksellers are not pleased.
• The outright ban of dockless scooters failed at the final Metro Council meeting Tuesday as expected but not before rehashing the arguments for and against the devices one last time. ?
• “Chargers,” the folks who keep the scooters charged overnight in exchange for pay, are facing a tougher and tougher time with fewer scooters on the road.
• WPLN’s Tony Gonzalez has a retrospective on the Metro Council’s four-year term before the members are sworn in next month. Spoiler: there were a lot of very long meetings.
• The controversial “Rock Block” zoning bill was withdraw Tuesday night in what is seen as a win for historical conservationist. That success may be short lived, as the developer can build a smaller development without a zoning change.
• The Metro Council did tighten the rules on short-term rentals, closing a loophole in the current ordinances that allowed investors to obtain permits in certain zoning areas.
• The mural of Vanderbilt’s coaches has been replaced with the athletic logo on a white background without the original muralist’s knowledge. He’s rather annoyed by that.
• Metro is settling a lawsuit brought by two employees after being victims of identity theft attributed to their personal information being included in online training manuals for the city.
• Republic High School administrators say they have removed a substitute teacher after learning she was involved in a drug deal shooting that left a man dead, which happened to the brother of two of the students at the charter school.
• A food pantry on Belmont’s campus lead by country singer Brad Paisley has landed a $1.5 million grant from the State of Tennessee.
• Conservative commentator Steve Gill landed in jail Tuesday afternoon for failing to pay $170,000 in child support as ordered by a Williamson County judge. His bail, incidentally, is set at the amount owed.
• May David Briley says that police body cams will roll out this fall, but the city’s finance department says the details of a contract are still being worked on.
• With his brother poised to take over as Nashville mayor, US Representative Jim Cooper is a likely target for progressive groups to primary with a candidate less centrist than the 14-term congressman.
• If you have $1.9 million sitting around, you could own the Tree House Bar and adjacent houses in the Five Points area of East Nashville. The current owners were denied a demolition permit.
• The State of Tennessee Comptroller is skeptical of Nashville’s recent land sales and budget maneuvers to plug deficits and is asking for more details from the city.
• A hunter’s trail camera caught footage of a black bear wandering the woods near Joelton in the northwestern corner of Davidson County. ?
• We all have off days, including whoever laid out The Tennessean‘s sports page.
• A national law firm that had been using co-working space downtown has instead opted to move to Cool Springs, citing increasingly difficult commutes as the reason.
• The 51st Kitchen & Bar restaurant in the Nations has closed after four years, taking with it an attached dog park that made them popular with pet owners.

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