🍽️ How to eat cheap in Nashville

🍽️ How To Eat Cheap in Nashville

A cheap night out, in THIS economy? On today’s City Cast Nashville podcast, host Marie Cecile Anderson is joined by her mother, Linda Anderson, to reveal their secret family list of the best happy hours and early bird specials in Nashville. [🎧 City Cast Nashville]

🪖 TN National Guard Sent to D.C.

Approximately 160 Tennessee National Guard members have been sent to Washington, D.C. in response to President Trump’s federal takeover of the Capitol. [WKRN]

• Inside the first week of Trump’s D.C. takeover [ 🎧 City Cast D.C.]

💸 Metro Office Skirts Financial Oversight

Since September 2024, Metro’s Office of Homeless Services has allowed the vendor running Strobel House, Nashville’s first permanent supportive housing facility, to operate without a contract, and overpaid the vendor $500,000 with backdated invoices that bypassed Metro’s financial controls. OHS also prohibits the vendor from speaking to the media without prior approval. Despite these issues, the Budget and Finance Committee has voted to renew the vendor’s contract. [{Rich Text}]]

• A resident was attacked at Strobel House during the period the operator had no contract. [🎧 City Cast Nashville]

🚸 Another Person Hit at Crosswalk

Just months after Dot Dobbins was killed in a Germantown crosswalk, another woman was injured by a driver in the same spot. It was a hit-and-run accident, and the woman is recovering in the hospital. Councilmember Jacob Kupin says he’s working with other city leaders to make the intersection safer. [WKRN]