Hold on to your wigs but it’s gonna be kinda dry this weekend! That’s right, meemaw, you can use less wig glue and… Okay, so maybe you shouldn’t use less wig glue. Anyway, no rain all weekend! Go do stuff outside! It’ll be a little humid but temperatures will only be around 90. [NashSevereWx]
Ever wondered how much the far-right is costing Tennessee taxpayers when they fearmonger? It’s at least $54 million. After several years of high taxes and battles to keep many hemp products legal in Tennessee, the state’s new law that more heavily regulates the sale and taxes of several THCA products has led to a loss of more than $50 million in tax revenue. [The Tennessean]
Sixty years ago Gene Roddenberry put Captain James T. Kirk and the crew of the U.S.S. Enterprise on television and changed what science fiction was allowed to dream about. From 1966 to 1969 the original series ran. It got cancelled. And then it became one of the most enduring cultural forces in American popular entertainment, spawning films, spinoffs, conventions, and an argument about the future of humanity that never really stopped. [NVBL]
Sorry for the end of week panic attack but if we had to see this story, so do you. Imagine going in for what is supposed to be routine surgery and being left permanently paralyzed. That’s what several families are dealing with after procedures late last week at Ascension Saint Thomas Midtown here in Nashville. [News Channel 5]
Tennessee Republicans outside of Nashville have called for a state intervention into a city tax hike on lower Broadway’s honky-tonks, but Gov. Bill Lee doesn’t seem keen to turn the matter into another special session. House Speaker Cameron Sexton, R-Crossville, and Sen. Jack Johnson, R-Franklin, want lawmakers to return to the statehouse to address higher property taxes for Music City’s biggest tourist draws. [WPLN]
Have you seen this guy? Newly released body camera video is providing a closer look at one of the last known interactions with a Colorado man who disappeared after traveling to Nashville for a work conference. Conor Anderson, 31, arrived in Nashville Saturday and checked into the Millennium Maxwell House hotel around 4:28 p.m. Hours later, he was seen speaking with Metro police officers in East Nashville. [WKRN]
After serving five years as Vanderbilt’s provost and vice chancellor for academic affairs, C. Cybele Raver will be taking on a new role as president of the University of Michigan. The University of Michigan Board of Regents announced that her term will begin Dec. 1, when Raver will assume her title as the university’s 17th president. [Vanderbilt Hustler]
We know school’s just starting but we’re all excited to see what the Nashville SUNN reports on this semester. While we wait for things to get started, you should check out all of last semester’s work. [Nashville SUNN]
Bishop William Barber has announced a national voter mobilization tour. Nationally renowned civil rights leader and Repairers of the Breach President Bishop William J. Barber II announced a multi-state speaking tour in support of his 100 Days; 1,000 Marches to the Polls voter mobilization initiative organized by Repairers of the Breach and the Moral Monday Public Pulpit. [Tennessee Tribune]
Your writer doesn’t have kids and we can’t imagine how tough it is to find fun, safe things to take them to on the weekends. So be sure to check out Pecos Bill, Calamity Jane, John Henry and Johnny Appleseed at the Tall Tale Circus by Wishing Chair Productions. There are a couple different showtimes but it takes place at the main library. [NVPL]
Okay, fine, we’ll talk about this Cheekwood situation for a minute. Cheekwood is calling Thursday’s decision by Metro’s Board of Zoning Appeals a win, clearing the way for its controversial parking garage project to move forward, at least for now. After hours of arguments from both sides, the board determined Metro’s zoning administrator did not make a mistake when issuing a permit for the garage. [WZTV]
It’s not just Flock you need to think about when it comes to privacy, meemaw. Parked Waymo vehicles are recording Nashville neighborhoods, churches, businesses and parks every day without any public guidelines on how long footage is stored, and minimal details on how it is used. Since the company fully launched in Nashville in June, more than 50 white, driverless Jaguars with out-of-state plates and large, spinning sensors shaped like top hats on their roofs have been carting people around Nashville, saturating downtown hotspots like the riverfront, Lower Broadway and Music Row. [Nashville Banner]
Middle Tennessee is now home to the best high school in the country. New rankings from U.S. News and World Report show that Central Magnet High School in Rutherford County has been named No. 1 in the U.S. The ranking is based on state assessment performance and college-readiness. [WSMV]
We can’t be the only ones not on the magic weight loss injection — so hopefully others will be as excited about this as we are. Famous NYC Ukrainian restaurant Veselka has opened its doors in East Nashville! Go check it out ASAP. [Nashville Business Journal, Veselka & Instagram]
