• A story from the website for the San Francisco Chronicle has interviews with Bay Area former residents explaining why they chose to make Nashville home.
• Police arrested a man at Nashville International Airport with a suitcase containing 14 lbs. of marijuana in it. The suitcase had a shipping label from California.
• North Nashville residents are starting to vote on how $2 million will be spent on proposals in the district in a pilot program called “participatory budgeting.” The funds would otherwise be left to the discretion of the mayor’s capital improvement plan.
• Metro Waste Services reports that fleet issues are causing trash pickups to be delayed by about a day throughout Nashville. If your trash isn’t picked up on schedule, leave it out for the next day.
• New rooftop solar panels has one Metro building producing more electricity than it consumes, a first for the city’s effort to reduce energy and water consumption.
• Nashville Humane Association has taken the shelter pets from Mayfield, Kentucky that were awaiting adoption prior to last weekend’s tornado outbreak that devastated the area.
• Police arrested four people, including a Texas auto executive, in connection with a murder-for-hire plot that left two people dead in March of 2020.
• The Metro Council  is one vote away from ending emissions testing in Davidson County, with this month being the final full month of watching a webcam to see if you can get it done on a lunch break.
• The Nashville Predators did not play the Calgary Flames Tuesday night as scheduled, as six Flames players were in COVID-19 protocol. The game tomorrow against the Colorado Avalanche is still on as of this writing.
• The reason that’s in doubt is because six Preds players and six staff, including the head coach, are also in the COVID-19 protocol since yesterday.
• WPLN has a follow-up on those Meharry Medical College students that received $10,000 in a lump sum from COVID relief, crediting the move with helping ease anxiety. While most students graduate with hundreds of thousands of dollars in debt, the money helped meet immediate needs like rent.
• Vanderbilt University Medical Center will expand into Rutherford County with a new hospital after state regulators approved their plan on a second attempt. The move was opposed by Tristar, Ascension and Williamson Medical Center as unnecessary.
• A 90 year-old Goodlettsville man was shocked to receive a bill for $19,000 to replace his heating and air conditioning unit, along with a lien on his house to make sure he paid it.
• District Attorney Glenn Funk held a staff holiday party at the Metro Courthouse, a move one of his opponents in next year’s race says was a political event.
• WPLN has a profile of the folks behind @NashSevereWx, one of your Nashvillest staff’s essential reading when the sky gets mad.

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