by Kaitlin Housler | Jan 21, 2026 | Elections, News, Tennessee, The South
Metro Nashville Council Member Joy Styles (District 32) announced her candidacy for mayor on Tuesday, drawing a sharp contrast with incumbent Mayor Freddie O’Connell, whom she criticized for what she described as an “ineffective” leader who maintains an...
by Kaitlin Housler | Dec 8, 2025 | Justice, News, Tennessee, The South
The Metro Government of Nashville and Davidson County joined a lawsuit against the Trump administration’s Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) over the agency’s overhaul of the Continuum of Care (CoC) Program, its primary federal program for funding...
by Kaitlin Housler | Nov 21, 2025 | News, Policy, Tennessee, The South
The Tennessee Performing Arts Center (TPAC) has reached a deal with the Metro Government of Nashville to move out of the state-owned James K. Polk Cultural Center and across the river to the East Bank. The agreement, according to Nashville Mayor Freddie O’Connell’s...
by Kaitlin Housler | Apr 15, 2025 | Justice, News, Tennessee, The South, TN LEAD
The Tennessee Court of Appeals issued a ruling in the case Committee to Stop an Unfair Tax v. Freddie O’Connell on Tuesday which upheld a majority of a lower court’s previous ruling finding that the multi-billion dollar Nashville transit plan can be legally...
by Kaitlin Housler | Apr 10, 2025 | News, Policy, Tennessee, The Michael Patrick Leahy Show, The South
Ben Cunningham, founder of the Nashville Tea Party, said people are fleeing Nashville in droves over compounded tax increases implemented in recent years and forthcoming increases expected under the current mayor. Noting Nashville’s largest property tax increase in...
by Kaitlin Housler | Jun 20, 2024 | News, Policy, Tennessee, The South
The Metro Nashville Council passed Mayor Freddie O’Connell’s multi billion-dollar transit plan on its first reading during Tuesday’s meeting. O’Connell unveiled his multi-billion dollar transit plan, “Choose How You Move: An All-Access Pass to Sidewalks, Signals,...
by Kaitlin Housler | Jun 3, 2024 | Justice, News, Tennessee, The South
A man with a lengthy criminal record was arrested and charged on Sunday for allegedly following, touching, and exposing himself to a woman at a WeGo bus station in Nashville. Kenneth Bell, 39, was booked into the Davidson County Sheriff’s Office on Sunday on one...
