• Health officials are learning on the fly when and where to deploy mobile vaccination clinics, with some more successful than others in getting shots in arms. The effort centers around reaching the 25-34 year-old demographic that lags behind in vaccination rates.
• The Tennessee Department of Health is warning residents to get vaccinated before the spread of more faster-spreading variant of the coronavirus become more widespread in the state.
• A developer has released plans and a video for “Storyville Gardens,” a children and reading-focused theme park to be located somewhere in the mid-state region. Related, Opryland closed in 1997, and some of us are still mad about it.
• Music industry entrepreneur has joined a growing list of businesses and organizations that have sued the state over the anti-trans bathroom signage bill that goes into effect today. Nashville’s District Attorney says he will not prosecute any violations of the signage law.
• A committee has submitted its recommendations on how the State of Tennessee can make up for shortchanging Tennessee State University more than half a billion dollars in matching funds over the last five decades.
• A Nashville woman has filed a First Amendment lawsuit against the State of Tennessee for revoking her license plate that read “69PWNDU” after having it for nearly a decade.
• A Hendersonville man has plead guilty for his role in setting a fire at the Historic Metro Courthouse last summer during a protest and is likely to be sentenced between 5 and 20 years in prison.
• Homicides are up in Nashville by nearly 60 percent compared to 2020, a trend that’s consistent with other metro areas nationwide.
• Vanderbilt Baseball’s quest for back to back titles came up short in a 9-0 loss to Mississippi State, who won their first CWS title in school history.
• The Nashville Predators will host an outdoor game against the Tampa Bay Lightning on February 26 the NHL announced earlier this week. The weather for this game is anyone’s guess.
• Metro Nashville Public Schools and its local teacher’s union are partnering with immigrant organizations to explore “community schools” that work to align educational opportunities with the communities they serve.
• Also in education news, MNPS teachers are seeing their first substantial pay raise in many years, but many say its only a start to getting things back on track. The surrounding county school systems also offered raises to their teachers.
• Local restaurants aren’t sure the promised relief will come after federal judges blocked key parts of a recovery plan.

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