Today will be warm and probably windy before unsettled weather comes our way. Rain and some storminess will roll in tonight and week us pretty rainy tomorrow. We’ll clear up through Sunday night when the yucky stuff begins to roll back in for Monday. [NashSevereWx]
House lawmakers in Tennessee have approved a bill that could reshape how prescription drugs are managed. The legislation targets pharmacy benefit managers, the companies that negotiate drug prices and manage prescription benefits for insurers. Under the legislation, a company would be prohibited from both owning a pharmacy and controlling a PBM or health insurer operating in Tennessee. [WKRN]
The Tennessee Senate has passed legislation that would change the way pharmacies can operate. The proposal has been dubbed “the CVS bill” because it directly impacts the drugstore chain. Under the bill, drugstores would no longer be allowed to negotiate prices directly with insurance providers or government programs. Instead, a third party would be required to step in. [FOX17]
Pretty sure we told you this was happening several weeks ago. Starbucks has selected Tennessee for its Southeast corporate office. Doesn’t appear to mean too much because all of the high-paying jobs will be for people who merely pretend to move to Tennessee in order to take advantage of tax rules. [News Channel 5]
According to recent Lobbying Disclosure Act reports from the U.S. Senate, Vanderbilt’s lobbying expenses in 2025 totaled $910,000 — the greatest in university history. The total represents a greater sum than the last four years of lobbying expenditures combined and nearly twice that of 2016, when Vanderbilt University Medical Center was still a part of the university. [Vanderbilt Hustler]
A packed house filled TPAC’s Polk Theater as Sister Act took the stage, delivering a high-energy performance that kept the audience engaged from start to finish. From the opening moments, the production established a lively tone, blending masterful vocals, humor and entertaining choreography. [Tennessee Tribune]
Tennessee Tech University’s Dining Services are rolling into the future with robotic delivery, bringing meals to students’ doorsteps. Tennessee Tech partnered with Starship Technologies, a global leader in sidewalk autonomous delivery, to launch a new robotic food delivery program designed to bring additional convenience, flexibility, and amusement to campus dining. [FOX17]
Due to the sheer volume of their caseload, a former Banner reporter described Davidson County’s Third and Fourth Circuit Courts as a “beast.” Each year, these two courts, widely known as “family court,” hear plenty of Davidson County divorce cases — close to 2,000, according to one candidate. [Nashville Banner]
Ooof, here’s how you know you’re more than a little bit ignorant and have been manipulated by TikTok propaganda. And how to know Republicans are going to continue to own all politics and government in Tennessee for the near future. Responding to one of the worst terror attacks in history (actual genocide that started that war), is not a “genocide”. Deaths that occur from war that are not targeted based on race, ethnicity, origin, religion are not from genocide. They’re war casualties. Meanwhile, the actual genocides occurring in the world in places like Darfur get ignored while using the slaughter of Jewish people as a progressive litmus test. Your writer for this is a pretty big liberal but has the ability to do things like not treat Tucker Carlson or Candace Owens as legitimate on any front. If you’re in bed with them, you’re the baddies. It’s almost as if those on the far-left have lost the plot and are embracing… wait for it… antisemitism. It’s been rebranded, of course, with cutesy emoji and slang terms and they get irrationally fired up when you point out their hypocrisies. But that’s what it smells like. The tips of the political horseshoe are bending and touching. [TN Holler]
Want some anecdotal evidence that the far-left is now as insane as the far-right? Here you go, meemaw. They’re (the far-right) wasting their time on this pointless legislation that serves only to drive antisemitism. Tennessee will no longer recognize the Middle Eastern region known as the West Bank in official state documents. [WPLN]
Are you still struggling to recover from the winter storm? Then it’s probably time to see if there are Metro Action Programs that can help you, as more FEMA storm aid as been released and Metro Government has opened up more assistance. [Click Here]
A restaurant industry veteran wants to help local restaurants compete with the chains. We should all be stepping up to help keep our local joints thriving in this economic downturn. [Nashville Business Journal]
What do you know about the air quality in Nashville? Check out the latest report from the American Lung Association to find out just how questionable things could be. Or maybe Nashville is one of the cleanest in the country? Might pay off to be informed now that the adults are no longer in charge. [State of the Air & More & Even More]
