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These Old Bones
👻 Hospital bones, grocery treats, & budgetary ghosts · Governor’s race roundup: it's getting personal · 24 charged in cartel-linked drug ring in Middle TN · Much more!
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Good morning everyone! I hope you all are recovering nicely from the coalescing forces of Halloween festivities and government mandated time changes. My weekly playlist is particularly chill this week, you can listen to it here. Tonight, there is a lovely indie-folk bill over at The East Room with
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Nashville's violent crime rate is still too high
🚨 Music City near the top in terms of crime · Is NASCAR coming to town · ICE picks up Garcia Dispatch from the statesmen's dinner · Much more!
Nashville's Premier Cooling Shelter
📚 The downtown library is still closed · National Guard Assisting ICE · Abrego Garcia Update · Travel Baseball Index · The Frist goes Mediterranean · Much more!
The Travel Baseball Index
Porter concocts a new way to measure which American states are the most affluent
The Frist Goes Mediterranean
The last days of Venice and The Ottoman Empire in the heart of Music City
A Crack in the Barrel
🥞 Cracker Barrel's big rebrand · Courtroom activism backfires · Optics of Privilege · Voucher update · Week in culture · Much more!
The Week in Culture (August 21st)
### Watch Hot Ticket: Eden Ron Howard delves into thriller territory with this pre-WWII parable about a group of expats who find their jung
Tuesday Night Smackdown
🏛️ Last night at the Metro Council · Has Woke peaked · Cracking down on panhandling · McKay's Knoxville has union vibes · Much more!
Weird Metro Money
👍 Blackburn lands another endorsement · Housing supply misses the mark · Repeat offender of the day · Americana interview · Much more!
Sydney Sweeney and The King of the Summer Movie Season
Actor Paul Walter Hauser and writer/director Tony Tost pay homage to the rest of the country in their neo-western Americana
Councilmanic Rubber Stamp
🙉 CM Horton doesn't want to hear it · Will Blackburn debate · Council musical chairs · The office of family safety · Much more!
Food at the Fair
🎡 The state fair's main attraction · TIRRC sues THP · Scrapyard future · Homeless count remains steady · The Corvette Caper · Much more!
The State of the Fair
As the Wilson County — Tennessee State Fair inches toward one million annual attendees, Pick Tennessee has become its crown jewel
The Corvette Caper
Bowling Green's GM assembly plant gets hit by some sophisticated criminals
More than meets the eye...
🧊 A new ICE facility in West TN · Cleaning up the Capitol · Dress code scaries · Murfreesboro grave destroyed · This week in culture · Much more!
The Week in Culture (August 14th)
Watch Hot Ticket Nobody 2 Bob Odenkirk returns as the lifelong assassin turned family man who now finds his summer vacation interrupted by