• The Metro Council voted to defer a project that would have installed license plate readers after push-back from various groups that cited privacy and potential abuse. The bill’s sponsor had tried to amend the measure to address some of those concerns.
• The Nashville Scene has a column summarizing the effort by a group seeking to change the way Nashville handles property tax increases and make it easier to recall elected officials. The short version is that it’s a mess.
• The Tennessean has an explainer on what is actually happening with the city’s property taxes during assessments this year which should help answer many of your questions.
• In a sign of things returning to “normal,” crime and noise complaints are on the rise in the Midtown area.
• Nashville’s Fourth of July celebration will also be back to “normal” this summer, though things may change depending on case counts.
• About 40 percent of Nashvillians have been fully vaccinated, with city leaders setting a goal to reach 50 percent by May 1. There are still plenty of walk-in slots available at Music City Center, seven days a week.
• The US Department of Justice has awarded more than $1.3 million to local agencies that responded to the Christmas Day bombing to help offset the un-budgeted expense of handling a massive crime scene.
• Work has resumed on the second Amazon tower at Nashville Yards after an unexplained pause in the middle of last year. The two buildings combined have more than a million square feet of office space.
• The Metro Health Department says that they do not provide any data to local or federal law enforcement, which is said to be a particular concern among portions of the city’s Hispanic community.
• WPLN spoke with police reform advocates after a Minnesota jury convicted the police officer who murdered George Floyd last spring.
• A $72 million revitalization project for Jefferson Street will start to undo some of the damage done when I-40 was built through the heart of a vibrant Black community. The money comes from the federal American Rescue Plan passed last month.
• Bike rental company BCycle is set to return to the city in June after ceasing operations last March early in the pandemic. The company says the fleet will be their motorized e-bikes.
• A company that provides health care services to county jails plans to relocate to nearby Franklin, Tennessee from Illinois.
• The Nashville Predators (25-21-2) beat the Chicago Blackhawks 5-2 (22-20-5) Monday night at home before suffering a 5-4 overtime loss in Chicago. They wrap up the three-game series tomorrow night on the road.
• A Murfreesboro man who spent nearly 300 days in the hospital with complications from COVID-19 has returned home.
• Dave Ramsey’s company is in the news again, this time because a former employee is suing it for religious discrimination, fraud and misrepresentation.
• In some feel-good news, Chef Maneet Chauhan has donated her Food Network “Tournament of Champions” winnings to three local restaurants hit particularly hard by the pandemic.

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