• Safety advocates Walk Bike Nashville says that 2019 is already the deadliest for Nashville’s pedestrians, with 26 confirmed deaths. The fall and winter months tend to be the most dangerous because of reduced daylight hours.
• It is taking way too long to get a new Real ID at the driver’s license stations, but officials promise they are working to speed that up. ⏱
• Former Tennessee governors Phil Bredesen (D) and Bill Haslam (R) told a forum Tuesday at Vanderbilt University that the political divisiveness in Tennessee and elsewhere is because people focus too much on national issues rather than local ones.
• While aggravated assault incidents are down county-wide, the downtown precinct reports a 24 percent increase in the areas it covers according to police department data.
• Thirty four of Nashville’s 40 council members have signed on to an open letter to the president and congress urging them to establish a pathway to citizenship for undocumented workers in the state “an opportunity to fully participate in the life of our community without fear.”
• A Nashville man was arrested Wednesday for the unsolved 2001 murder of a Paris, Tennessee resident one day after being added to the TBI’s Most Wanted list.
• Four years after a scathing report criticized the Metro Nashville Arts Commission for a lack of diversity on its board and in its programming, the organization is making improvements.
• A WSMV investigation found that three soccer fields at Faigrounds Nashville have yet to be used in their first seven months despite costing the city $6 million to build. ⚽️
• The good news is that now is among the better times to buy a home, but the bad news is that out of town buyers with cash offers may beat you to the best ones.
• It’s not just home prices that are climbing, with Nashville companies paying among the highest square footage office rental rates in the country. Competition from major players like Amazon is said to be a factor.
• David Ewing, a well-known Nashville historian and attorney, has been accused of taking hundreds of thousands of dollars from a Nashville woman’s trust fund that he oversaw according to court filings. He has denied any wrongdoing through his attorney.
• A planned development on the site of a former car lot in East Nashville has raised a few eyebrows both for its unconventional design and close proximity to a popular night spot.
• The Nashville Predators (9-4-2) defeated the Detroit Red Wings (4-12-1) 6-1 Monday night to open a four-game road trip and extend goaltender Pekka Rinne’s unbeaten-in-regulation streak to a franchise-high eight games. They travel to face the Colorado Avalanche (8-5-2) tonight and the San Jose Sharks (5-10-1) on Saturday.
• Personal finance guru Dave Ramsey pulled a gun out during a staff meeting in 2011 according to a deposition given in a defamation case against a California blogger. Our Nashvillest staff meetings are a little less exciting than that.
• Late civil rights activist Alfred Z. Kelley was honored with a historical marker on Tuesday, commemorating his landmark case against Nashville’s public schools in 1955 that ushered in desegregation countywide. The case would not be settled until 1998, making the longest running lawsuit in state history. ?
• The Nashville Kurdish community is organizing donation drives to help displaced folks in their homeland, with many fleeing violence with just the clothes on their backs.
• WPLN has a story about how nonprofit Thistle Farms is now working with famed-yet-anonymous guerilla artist and Banksy, and it involves Greece, Syria and a welcome mat.

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