we're going to be good neighbors and also we made it impossible to take any sort of legal action whatsoever against us

If the Board of Ethical Conduct — which almost NEVER makes findings that someone actually violated Metro’s ethics code — found I had committed a violation as a board member, I would simply resign. Alternately, the council could hold a vote to remove Hendricks. His term isn’t up until 2027!

Wandered into a whimsical night parade in Atlanta tonight. The Beltline is 15 years ahead of Nashville’s parks and greenways. This is what we should be investing in @freddieoconnell.bsky.social.

Idk, my definition of “catastrophic flooding” includes loss of life and significant structural damages. Curious what’s easy about that clean up… @stephenelliott.bsky.social

Nashville is losing a hardworking champion for our city.

Again, I ask what other orders did the Fair Board Chair receive on just this text chain, or in any other communications with Bristol lobbyists? What privileged or confidential Metro information did the Fair Board Chair leak to Bristol’s lobbyists?

Wow I am stunned that a public official would take instructions directly from a special interest

An ethics complaint has been filed against Jasper Hendricks, chair of the Metro Board of Fair Commissioners and former candidate for Metro Council.

Well put, is @freddieoconnell.bsky.social listening?

It is alleged that the sitting Fair Board Chair was taking direction from Bristol’s lobbyists (among other allegations). What privileged Metro information & strategy has been disclosed to Bristol and others? Who has the Fair Board Chair been advocating for in the negotiations: Metro or Bristol?

These are serious and galling accusations….

I got to be the guest on today’s episode of @citycastnash.bsky.social, which is all about the present and future of sports gambling and why the DraftKings bar is basically a modern Planet Hollywood:

What a gem of a movie. I ran into David Strathairn at Vetri in Philly while he was doing a play at the Wilma and when I shook his hand I said "Sneakers is one of my all time favorites" and he said "most fun I ever had and hardly anyone brings it up" Gonna watch it tonight.

Well this seems like a cool project. We could use this in Nashville like yesterday….

“World Class” (self-proclaimed) event company puts on embarrassing boondoggle. Seems like a bad group to go into business with…. @mendesbob.bsky.social @freddieoconnell.bsky.social

As crime stats improve, reactionaries move the goalpost from facts to feelings -- citing polling numbers to justify expanded surveillance and ballooning police budgets. nashvillebanner.com/2025/07/02/n...

Affordable housing up and running and many more community benefits on the way at the Fairgrounds, all of which will be destroyed if Metro allows Bristol Motorsports to build a cynical tourist playground that benefits only out of town millionaires and their lobbyists.

Nashville needs to decide what it wants to be when it grows up. My latest column up today at @tennesseelookout.com. tennesseelookout.com/2025/07/11/n...

“…Block by Block offers beautification and maintenance services for public spaces and runs city hospitality programs like Nashville’s yellow-shirted downtown ambassadors.” So, like, what does NDP actually do themselves?

“…thanks for bringing about a future in which scions like myself are given unlimited influence over government and veto power over bike lanes….”

every year on patriots' day we commemorate the “here comes the pizza” incident from 2007, in which don orsillo and the late great jerry remy grow increasingly deranged trying to understand the motives of the man who hurled a slice of pizza at a guy attempting to catch a foul ball #redsox 🍕 ⚾️

Poll from pro-Nashville Fairgrounds group finds opposition to NASCAR on site tennesseelookout.com/briefs/poll-...

SMI, of course, has spent years trying to strong arm Nashville into building a new mega speedway in the heart of Nashville’s neighborhoods (for SMI to profit from), doing so via threats and various underhanded, behind closed door maneuvers by their cynical lobbyists. #MetroCouncilNash

CM Weiner always seems to be most impassioned when it comes to supporting James Weaver’s clients like Axon…