• PSA: Early voting for mayor and a handful of council seats continues this week, with all early voting sites opening up tomorrow morning.
• Nashville Mayor David Briley squared off with at-large council member John Cooper for the first debate after Cooper bested him by more than 10 percentage points in the August 1 election. The topic of the city’s finances dominated the at times pointed exchange.
• A death row inmate scheduled to die next year may win a reprieve from a judge after District Attorney Glenn Funk submitted to a judge that a former prosecutor’s misconduct justified reducing the sentence to life in prison without parole. The judge will decide whether to grant the motion.
• The Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation has reached a deal with the developers of the Nashville Yards project to build in a “healthy living concept” at the site by way of a major donation to the foundation.
• Dr. Wendy Long, Nashville’s Public Health director, is stepping down after only eight months on the job to accept a CEO position of the Tennessee Hospital Association in mid-October.
• A “cultural misunderstanding” led to the health department shuttering an Old Hickory Chinese restaurant after a video surfaces that appeared to show employees washing equipment in Old Hickory Lake. The manager now says it was a trash grate and not used in food service.
• A viral video shows a man on an electric scooter hauling a large box, which gets tied into a story about the safety the dock-less scooters in Nashville.
• A WSMV investigation shows that Nashville’s probation officers are regularly turning over information to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) that have led to arrests and deportations in the county. Probation officers are supervised by the city’s courts.
• A 59-year old man stole a Rutherford County ambulance from in front of Vanderbilt University Medical Center before ramming into a patrol car and driving the vehicle off an embankment into the trees. No word as to why on earth he did that.
• The owners of a popular Cajun food truck will open Willie B’s Daiquiri Bar and Kitchen as a daiquiri bar serving a mixture of Cajun-style dishes, American fare, and seafood in North Nashville along Buchanan Street.
• WPLN has a profile on a funeral director school that helps prepare practitioners to be licensed by the state, if you were considering a career change.
• A woman has sued MDHA for negligence after her husband was killed by a stray bullet while visiting the Edgehill Homes housing project. A judge previously dismissed a similar case in 2016, making her lawsuit more difficult to win.
• Tennessee State University was named one of the top 50 safest campuses in the country, which officials attribute to the increased security, lighting, and other technology on campus in the wake of several violent incidents.
• Belle Meade Plantation has named its first ever Director of African American Studies who will work to tell the story of the slaves that lived at the plantation, something she says until now has been neglected.
• A man wanted in Georgia was arrested in Goodlettsville Monday for having credit card skimming devices and 28 room key cards from the hotel he was staying in at the time.
• Police say a man assaulted a 14-year old girl from Michigan that was visiting with family on Lower Broadway and that he had harassed other women that same day. The girl’s father physically restrained the man until police arrived.
• Conservative commentator Steve Gill’s current wife has asked for a protection order while he remains in jail for failing to pay child support from a previous marriage. On Monday Gill resigned as the political editor of the Tennessee Star.
• An effort by Nashville’s large Kurdish population to offer a class at John Overton High School has been paused for now because the classes did not have enough students interested in them at this time. Organizers say that the issue is that Kurdish students are spread out across the city.
• The Nashville Symphony shared aerial photos from 2014 on Tuesday that showed their building under construction, and wow has downtown changed in the last five years.

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