Rebuilding remains top priority for 2nd Avenue one month after bombing
Weâre now one month removed from one of the most devastating attacks in Nashville history, but the question on most minds is how do we rebuild?
and last updated 2021-01-25 22:08:51-05
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WTVF) â Weâre now one month removed from one of the most devastating attacks in Nashville history, but the question on most minds is how do we rebuild?
The busted walls and shattered windows have left scars that some worry may take years to heal. Nashville business-owner and CEO of Icon Entertainment Group Bill Miller stopped by his investment property Monday, for the first time since the blast. He invited us to see the damage for ourselves, but later said he feels fortunate knowing it could have been much worse.
SOUTH LAKE TAHOE
When Mayor Tamara Wallace looks out her office window from her perch within the Lake Tahoe Community Presbyterian Church, she’s afforded a bird’s-eye view of the traffic along Route 50, which has been pretty thick since the pandemic began in March.
And if she’s at her aerie before 2 p.m., there’s no denying the foot traffic going in and out of the Red Hut Breakfast Cafe, which sits adjacent to the church’s parking lot. The owners Wallace’s longtime South Lake Tahoe neighbors have refused to close down their restaurant to indoor dining, despite state and local public health orders, which forbid indoor dining as coronavirus caseloads surge and regional ICU beds fill.
Signal Mountain Council Makes Board Appointments Tuesday, January 12, 2021 - by Gail Perry
Signal Mountain’s new council made appointments to fill vacancies in the city’s various boards and commissions on Monday. Most of these boards are without enforcement power and are largely advisory in nature. Applicants filled out forms to let the council know their backgrounds and experience. In the future, those who are reapplying for a board will need to submit a new application, so new council members will be able to see their qualifications.
The boards and appointments are:
· The Municipal Planning Commission: Jamie Blanton, Eddie Smith, Ryan Slattery and Marci Cooper
COVID truly reveals American character
Letter
The COVID-19 pandemic has truly revealed the character of America, both past and present.
Our commitment to structural inequality has been in our DNA since the times of slavery. The efforts to change the value system to a more equitable economic model (The New Deal) saw a nation rise up from a depression and lead the world to defeating tyranny. The aftermath of this social reform resulted in the greatest rise of the middle class in the history of our nation.
But the powerful corporate lobbyists successfully undermined the social contract in the 1980s when the mantra became “Greed is good.” And so the “Raw Deal” went into effect. The strategy was simple, divide and conquer. Pin the middle class against each other and they will not see where the money is truly going.
Music reviews: Tim Minchin, Backsliders, Johnny Gandelsman and more
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Music reviews: Tim Minchin, Backsliders, Johnny Gandelsman and more
December 11, 2020 3.00pm
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Credit:Damian Bennett.
If you want a five-minute crash course in Tim Minchin, listen to
Talked Too Much, Stayed Too Long. Over a Ben Folds Five-ish bar-room stomper with fuzz guitar and cowbell, he outlines the hard years he put in before becoming a success, winningly describing himself as “a lovechild of Liberace and Edward Scissorhands”. Although he dials back the laughs to tackle more serious matters on