Boring Company Continues Tunneling for Music City Loop in Nashville

by Kaitlin Housler | Sep 14, 2026 | Culture, News, Tennessee, The South

The Boring Company is continuing tunneling operations for its Music City Loop transportation project in Nashville, with the company reporting that its second tunnel boring machine is now working through the city’s limestone. In a Friday post on X, The Boring Company...

The Boring Company Announces Nashville Hiring Event for Music City Loop

by Kaitlin Housler | Aug 20, 2026 | Culture, News, Tennessee, The South

The Boring Company announced it will hold a hiring event next week to expand its Nashville workforce as construction continues on the Music City Loop The company said in a post on X that it is hiring workers for the project, with two tunnel boring machines currently...

U.S. Department of Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy Tours Music City Loop Construction Site in Nashville

by Kaitlin Housler | Jun 29, 2026 | Culture, News, Tennessee, The South

U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) Secretary Sean Duffy toured the Music City Loop construction site last week, hailing the privately-funded project as “critical infrastructure” seeking to “meaningfully improve” the lives of those traveling around Nashville. In a...

The Boring Company’s Music City Loop Second Tunnel Machine Nears Launch

by Kaitlin Housler | Jun 2, 2026 | Culture, News, Tennessee, The South

The Boring Company said construction of its Music City Loop transit system continues to accelerate, with the project’s first tunnel boring machine actively excavating beneath Nashville and a second machine scheduled to begin tunneling later this month. In the...

TN Senate Leader Jack Johnson Calls Nashville’s Music City Loop a ‘Win-Win’ as Tunneling Advances

by Kaitlin Housler | May 15, 2026 | News, Politics, Tennessee, The Michael Patrick Leahy Show, The South

Tennessee Senate Majority Leader Jack Johnson (R-Franklin) said The Boring Company’s Music City Loop underground transit system a “win-win all the way around,” praising the privately funded project as a major solution to the city’s growing traffic congestion. During a...

Three Tennessee Locations in the Running to Win Free Tunnels Constructed by Musk’s Boring Company

by Kaitlin Housler | Mar 5, 2026 | Culture, News, Tennessee, The South

Three cities in Tennessee have been selected as finalists in The Boring Company’s Tunnel Vision Challenge, a competition that will award one proposal the construction of a free tunnel project up to one mile long, aimed at improving transportation or infrastructure...

TN Chamber of Commerce Warns Metro Council over Music City Loop Opposition

by Kaitlin Housler | Mar 3, 2026 | News, Policy, Tennessee, The South

A resolution set to be considered at Tuesday night’s meeting of the Metro Nashville Council opposing The Boring Company’s Music City Loop project has drawn scrutiny from the Tennessee Chamber of Commerce, which warns that such heavy opposition to the project...

Metro Council Member Files Resolution Opposing the Music City Loop

by Zachery Schmidt | Dec 10, 2025 | News, Politics, Tennessee, The South

A Metro Council member filed a resolution on Tuesday that opposes the Music City Loop, which Elon Musk’s Boring Company is building in Nashville. Council Member Delishia Porterfield (At-Large) said she filed this resolution after talking with a constituent last month....

Beacon Poll: Marsha Blackburn Dominating Gubernatorial Race, Tennessee Democrats Favor Socialism

by Kaitlin Housler | Nov 5, 2025 | News, Politics, Tennessee, The South, TN LEAD

The Nashville-based Beacon Center of Tennessee’s November poll highlights deepening political polarization between Republican and Democratic voters in the Volunteer State. The poll, which surveyed 1,200 registered voters in the state between October 26-29, featured...