• PSA: This Saturday is the final day for early voting in the mayoral and council races. Election Day is September 12.
• WPLN hosted a wide-ranging interview series between David Briley and John Cooper as voters head to the polls next Thursday in the mayoral election.
• St. Edward School on Thompson Lane has been in the news for an administrator’s decision to remove the Harry Potter series from the school’s library after consulting with “several exorcists, both in the United States and in Rome.”
• Downtown bar owners and the Metro Historic Zoning Commission head to court this week to settle an ongoing feud over permits to illuminate the century-old buildings downtown. The owners say that the city is overstepping their mandate in regulating the use of lights.
• The National Museum of African American Music officially took over its space at the corner of the Fifth + Broadway development, opening a chapter in the long-sought home for the contributions of African-American music to the industry and culture.
• Mayor David Briley signed an executive order discouraging local cooperation with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers following a report that probation officers routinely gave information to the agency. The mayor’s office is also calling on the state legislature to repeal a ban on so-called “sanctuary cities,” a move that is unlikely to succeed in the coming legislative session this January.
• An inmate being held as a murder suspect that was mistakenly released by the Davidson County Sheriff’s Office is back in custody, returning to jail after arranging his surrender through his lawyer. The DCSO is rather upset it happened.
• The lesser-known confederate monument in Centennial Park will not be moved after all following discussion by the Public Art Committee of Metro Board of Parks and Recreation, and will instead have a marker added explaining why it is there. A vandal offered their own contextual marker by spray-painting “They Were Racists” on it earlier in the summer.
• A notorious scammer and aggressive panhandler will spend the next two years in jail after he was arrested late last month in the latest of his more than 100 bookings for various charges.
• Metro Nashville Public Schools would like you to know that they had nothing to do with any of this, really.
• Former Tennessee Governor Bill Haslam will be a visiting professor at Vanderbilt University this fall, teaching a graduate course on leadership. The course is routinely taught by former public and business officials.
• Nashville’s police force will begin rolling out body cameras later this month after years of delays, first to a task force dealing with juvenile crime and expanding over time. Activists had been calling for body cameras since as early as 2014.
• There’s going to be quite a shindig at 6th and Peabody over the next few days with the we-finally-got-around-to-having-a grand opening party for Yee Haw and Ole Smoky.
• The Publix grocery store planned for Capitol View near downtown is nearing its opening date, with the company hiring staff to begin work in October.
• If you are heading to Kroger or Walmart, the companies would like you to please keep your firearms out of sight in their stores.
• We apparently missed the story about an anonymous Twitter account and a peed-on chair at the State Capitol.
• Curious Nashville takes us on a history lesson about a time when the easiest way to know the weather forecast in downtown Nashville was to look up at the L&C Tower, and why it stopped.
• The Tennessee Titans  defeated the Chicago Bears last Thursday 19-15 in a comeback win on the road to close out the preseason. The team opens the regular season against the Browns this Sunday in Cleveland.
• The Titans placed their kicker Ryan Succop on injured reserve Wednesday, signing a Cairo Santos as a replacement in the interim.
• Lizzo likes the Tennessee State University band’s rendition of “Truth Hurts” about as much as we do.

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