🏳️‍🌈 Are you ready for Pride Weekend?

🏳️‍🌈 Get Ready for Pride

Are you going to Nashville’s Pride Festival this weekend? Pride President Nicholas Gulick is on the City Cast Nashville podcast today, discussing the history of Nashville’s Pride festivals and giving a preview of this weekend’s events. It’s going to be amazing, y’all. [🎧 City Cast Nashville]

• To read more about Pride, check out our guide. [🌈 City Cast Nashville]

🏠 Unhoused Veterans Find a New Home

Operation Stand Down Tennessee has opened a new transitional housing facility for homeless veterans in Southeast Nashville. Previously, they had 7 houses for the 42 people in the program, who traveled to take night classes at the organization’s headquarters. Now, everything will be located in one building. [WKRN]

🐕 Humane Association's New License Plate

Nashville Humane Association has launched a specialty license plate to raise money for their Darcy Lashinsky Community Pet Food Bank program, which distributes supplemental pet food to households in need. At least 1,000 Tennessee residents must sign up for a plate for production to be approved. We can make this happen! [Nashville Humane Association]

🚗 We Spend Way Too Much Time in a Car, Y’all

Nashville tops the charts for longest daily drive time according to a new report analyzing 50 U.S. metro areas. Nashvillians spend 2 hours and 20 minutes traveling daily, and we’re number 4 in daily per capita vehicle miles traveled. This is probably not a shock to exhausted local commuters! [Replica]