Category: Local Governments
Changes at the Airport…Finally
Amid a sudden push to replace her as chairwoman of the board that oversees Nashville International Airport, Juli Mosley says she won’t seek the chair position and will step down from the board altogether. Mosley, who has been chairwoman of…
Read MoreMore Ethics Problems Plague Nashville District Attorney
A lawyer for Nashville District Attorney Glenn Funk is denying his client broke any ethics rules in his handling of a high-profile domestic violence case. That comes as Funk now faces a formal ethics complaint filed by another lawyer who…
Read MoreMetro Government Warming Up to Using Big Data
The city of Nashville is hiring its first ever “chief data officer” — a person described in a new job posting as an “evangelist for data.” This new city staffer will be tasked with updating Metro’s “open data” project, in…
Read MoreFormerly Suspended, Then Retired, Fairview Chief of Police Rehired
Former Fairview Police Chief Terry Harris will be returning to his position just weeks after he was suspended and subsequently retired from the force. The Fairview city manager said in a statement Tuesday that at this point in the investigation,…
Read MoreNashville Library Bans Radical Black Racist Group
Nashville Public Library officials have told Nashville’s chapter of Black Lives Matter that meetings that welcome only people of color can’t take place inside the city’s libraries. That decision has outraged members of Black Lives Matter, who say the library…
Read MoreNashville Gets Serious About Affordable Housing
Metro Nashville will have more money than ever this year in its Barnes Fund for affordable housing. And the jump — from about $1 million to more than $5 million — has officials reevaluating how the money can best be…
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