This is not a drill: the weather is looking nice this weekend! While there’s a less than 20% chance of rain early Saturday, very little would actually fall. Lower rain chances return Monday or Tuesday. Weekend mornings will be cool enough for a hoodie or light jacket and 75-ish throughout the day. Again, this is not a drill. Get out there and do stuff! [NashSevereWx]
Surprise! Marsha Marsh Marsha and her band of creeps on The List (y’all know the list we’re talking about) are urging a partisan redistricting in Tennessee to the objection of Democrats. Because Marsha Marsha Marsha wants to force her beliefs on everybody else. Can’t imagine what could possibly go wrong here with a special legislative session. [The Tennessean]
State lawmakers passed bills to take more control over several aspects of Metro government this legislative session. The Tennessee Highway Patrol will now have authority to patrol tourist areas in downtown Nashville, and the state changed the make-up of the boards that oversee the Metropolitan Nashville Airport Authority and the Nashville Electric Service. Democrats called it a “power grab.” [News Channel 5]
The TN Live Music Support Act, which would have given over $1 million a year to independent venues, promoters and artists in Tennessee, was voted down in the legislative session. The bill received bipartisan support earlier in the process but failed in the House Finance, Ways, and Means Committee after six legislators changed their votes. [WPLN]
Some Nashville neighbors worry they’re being priced out and they say property taxes are to blame. Now, they’re looking to Metro leaders for a solution. Call us crazy but you probably shouldn’t hold your breath if you’re expecting anyone in power to take taxes seriously in this state. Too many people get suckered into believing income taxes are everything while every other aspect of their lives are taxes to oblivion to compensate. [WKRN]
Alerta, kids, the purple-haired antisemites are on the loose. The Young Democratic Socialists of America received university approval April 10 to become a registered student organization on campus. The organization will begin holding regular meetings and events starting in the fall. [Vanderbilt Hustler]
Okay, we’re calling it, they’re cooked and adults have once again failed modern youth. This project was/is awesome and it should have been given every resource it needed to succeed. [Nashville SUNN]
Antioch has become one of the most visible centers of Latino life in Middle Tennessee, where business corridors, bilingual churches and community organizations have developed into a tightly connected support network for a rapidly growing population. Along Murfreesboro Pike, Bell Road and surrounding neighborhoods, Latino residents have helped reshape the area’s cultural and economic identity through entrepreneurship, faith communities and local services. [Tennessee Tribune]
Residents in Antioch were shaken Wednesday after a large federal law enforcement presence in their neighborhood ended in an arrest by immigration authorities. According to witnesses in the Hamilton Crossing townhome community, several unmarked black SUVs arrived early in the morning and remained in the area for hours. [WZTV]
Hear us out: groceries shouldn’t be taxed at all and it’s absolutely insane that this is reality. Mayor Freddie O’Connell delivered his 2026 State of Metro address Wednesday morning at Nissan Stadium, telling the gathered crowd that his proposed 2026-27 budget would include a cut to the city’s grocery tax and the establishment of both a new grant program for “longtime, local business owners” and a new affordable housing financing program. [Nashville Banner]
Metro Nashville Public Schools has denied applications for four charter schools. Superintendent Dr. Adrienne Battle noted that the district already has 26 charter schools in the local education agency. [WSMV]
A two-time James Beard-nominated chef has opened his latest restaurant in Nashville, serving the dish that made him fall in love with cooking. The big catch? It only seats 12 people. [Nashville Business Journal]
This story is focused 45min north of Nashville but it involves this city and you might find it interesting. We don’t talk about Bowling Green’s culinary pioneers enough. The people who opened the first restaurants of their kind in town, who introduced Bowling Green to food it had never seen before, who stayed long enough to become part of the place. Henry and Tak Jong Wan were two of them. [BLBG]
