- Hundreds marched from Centennial Park to the Nashville offices of Senators Lamar Alexander and Bob Corker on Monday to protest the suspension of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) policy. About 8,300 so-called DREAMers live in Tennessee.
- WPLN highlights that many students in an elementary school classroom — and their teacher — face an uncertain future.
- The Davidson County Property Assessor’s Office is asking anyone with significant damage from last week’s storms that may have reduced the value of the home by more than 50 percent to contact their office.
- There will be a bake sale this Thursday at Tailgate Brewing in West Nashville to raise money for Hurricane Relief.
- Alarms were going off early morning Wednesday at Vanderbilt about a possible “radiation event” on campus. Turns out it was a test gone awry.
- The city has recently hired three outreach workers to assist the chronically homeless, but aggressive panhandling continues to be a problem.
- The TVA says it would take 24 years to clean up coal ash from a Gallatin plant in recent filings. The courts had ordered the utility to clean up the potentially toxic byproduct.
- The previously estimated $110 million downtown flood wall is now up to $125 million, and city leaders want to reach a final conclusion whether the city will build it.
- An IRS scammer called the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation, in what has to rank on up there in dumb con artist moves. Seriously, the IRS would never call you.
- A local pastor is donating his kidney to one of his parishioners after being the best match among the 21 or so who volunteered to be tested.
Photo by Thomas Hawk.