• Happy Veterans Day!
• A group of Belmont University students gathered yesterday to protest what they see as lax mask enforcement and a low vaccination in the campus community. The university responded saying it is doing what it can to keep students safe.
• Parents are able to get their children age 5-11 vaccinated against COVID-19 at area high schools this week following the authorization from the FDA and CDC.
• More than 1,000 children in that age group have appointments to get the vaccine at Vanderbilt University Medical Center clinics.
• VUMC has also deployed mobile vaccine clinics to reach vulnerable and underserved communities that have not yet been able to get the COVID-19 vaccines. The company completed the purchase of a city block for the project.
• The H.G. Hill company plans to build a $93.5 million mixed-use development on the site of a former crane company in Germantown, including an 110,000 square feet of office space.
• Public meetings about the Jefferson Street “cap” project have been postponed, citing feedback from stakeholders that questioned the intentions of the project in a rapidly gentrifying neighborhood. Organizers say the project was aimed at correcting some of the damage done by the Interstate routing through a predominately Black neighborhood.
• A planned “tour” of various homeless encampments by the mayor’s office is moving forward despite rigorous push-back from community leaders and Metro Council members who called the junkets “dehumanizing.” The Mayor’s office is seeking funding for infrastructure updates such as trash collection and security cameras.
• A Metro Council member has introduced a bill that would end the county’s emission testing program, citing that surrounding counties have already discontinued theirs. The program was aimed at reducing smog from malfunctioning vehicles, a requirement set by the EPA.
• Bus drivers and support staff at Metro Schools say their low pay and subsequent staff shortages have never been more urgent, pleading with school administrators to resolve both.
• Metro school teachers made similar demands Tuesday, rallying outside of the district office Tuesday night to call for higher wages and more support staff.
• Nashville residents with overdue electric bills could be able to tap into a $1 million assistance fund for those who have lost income during the pandemic.
• Police say a man attacked a downtown hotdog vendor with a pole, sending him to the hospital with minor injuries.
• WPLN has a report about a police captain that was disciplined for sexual harassment, but still allowed to retire while another investigation in his alleged wrongdoing was ongoing.
• Tickets are on sale now for Nashville SC’s opening round matchup against Orlando City SC on November 23 at Nissan Stadium. Nashville hosted a play-in round last year in a very atypical season.
• The Nashville Predators (7-5-1) beat the Dallas Stars (4-6-2) 4-2 on the road last night. The team wraps up its six-game road trip against the St. Louis Blues (8-2-1) tonight.
• The Nashville Scene has a cover story on how Fentanyl and other opioids are claiming nearly as many lives in Davidson County as COVID-19.
• Metro Parks and Metro Historical Commission hosted a ‘Night for Fort Negley’ Tuesday in an effort to boost community support for the site of a historic civil-war era fort that overlooked Nashville.
• Nashville Software School is partnering with Amazon to create a new  software engineering program aimed at training students with marketable skills. The program will focus on AWS technologies and the Java programming language and be taught online.
• Nashville’s service industry employers are rolling out lucrative incentives to attract staff in a tight jobs market, including signing bonuses and retirement accounts.
• The Nashville Zoo announced the birth of two cotton-top tamarins, a primate native to Columbia. The zoo now has five of the endangered species in its care.

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