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:

Hilarious spin from someone whose full time job is manufacturing fake public support for corporations and their unpopular proposals. I guess if anyone could astroturf himself into a Bernie-esque man of the people, it would be Darden….

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….

Question for @scavendish.bsky.social, if one of your reporters @nashvillebanner.bsky.social previously worked for a PR firm that has been deeply involved in an ECD proposal, would that merit a disclosure at the end of any story that same reporter wrote about the proposal?

I would go with “notorious corporate astroturfer” rather than “businessman”, but c’est la vie….

“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….”

Scoop: Texas police used Flock's license plate cameras to search *nationwide* for a woman who had a self-managed abortion. Claim it was "about her safety" www.404media.co/a-texas-cop-...

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-...

Tons of uncertainty around NASCAR’s financial model. Also, Forbes reported last year that sponsorship dollars are down significantly. Seems like a bad time to go into business on a new speedway in a neighborhood for 30 years. #MetroCouncilNash @mendesbob.bsky.social @freddieoconnell.bsky.social

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

Not groundbreaking to point out astroturfing is bad stuff; this is the next gen of what we deal with in Nashville, need to regularly call out these grifts that are here already to be ready for what is coming….

CNN interviewed more than a dozen experts, and they said that no fire hydrants would have been able to stop the LA wildfires with the high winds. “I don’t know a water system in the world that is that prepared for this type of event,” said one expert.

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