• The Music City Center will no longer serve as a site for mass vaccinations amid declining demand, though vaccine does remain available at other locations, including the drive-thru center on Murfreesboro road and at most local pharmacies. Go get your shot.
• The Johnson & Johnson vaccine is available again after a two-week pause because of rare blood clots reports in some patients. The one-dose vaccine now comes with a warning about those risks.
• Thelma Harper, the first Black woman to serve as State Senator and a longtime fixture in Tennessee politics, has died. Harper was 80.
• The Nashville Business Journal published a scathing editorial about Mayor John Cooper’s recent property tax comments.
• A piece of property in Bells Bend once eyed for a “second downtown” and then for conservation as a green space has been purchased by the real estate developers who pushed for the former.
• A Metro Nashville Police officer fatally shot a man following  a traffic stop in Bordeaux Friday night. The police released body camp footage showing the man wielding a knife and running toward the officer.
• Demonstrators seized on the incident as an example of excessive force used by the police. It was the sixth officer-involved shooting in the last year in Nashville.
• The legislature is considering whether Tennessee  would allow medical marijuana, though with far stricter rules than other states.
• Sections of Second Avenue involved in the Christmas Day bombing could be used for entirely different purposes in the rebuilding effort.
• Nashville residents are rather bad at recycling, with only a little more than half of what goes into recycling bins actually being recyclable material.
• The Nashville Predators (26-21-2) closed out their three-game series with the Chicago Blackhawks (22-21-5) with a 3-1 win Friday night. They will host the Florida Panthers (31-13-5) tonight and tomorrow night.
• Will the Predators make the playoffs? Depending on the site you use, it is anywhere between a 50 and 80 percent chance.
• Tennessee could become the latest state to allow college athletes to make money from the use of their name and likeness.
• A group of season ticket holders have sued the Tennessee Titans for labeling them as ticket resellers, arguing that they breached their PSL contract in doing so.
• WKRN has another story on how prices for real estate in Middle Tennessee continue to climb.
• And on a lighter note, it’s difficult to do a live shot in downtown Nashville.

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