In other action, Metro Council requires parking upgrades for after-hours clubs By Michael Cass • THE TENNESSEAN • November 19, 2008 Cracker Barrel can keep selling rocking chairs on its front porches and Home Depot can still...
Voters also will weigh in on a second referendum to allow more opportunities to change the Metro Charter By Michael Cass • THE TENNESSEAN • November 18, 2008 If you're going through a little election withdrawal, take heart:...
By Michael Cass • THE TENNESSEAN • November 18, 2008 More than a century after 1.8 million people visited for the Tennessee Centennial Exposition, Nashville's best-known park is ready for a makeover. Mayor Karl Dean announced...
An effort to give Metro Nashville voters more opportunities to amend the city charter has gathered enough voters' signatures to call for a referendum on the matter, the county's election administrator wrote this week.
As the national economy stumbles toward the holiday season and city job openings are slamming shut, more than a dozen Metro Council members are attending a four-day conference in Florida at a cost to taxpayers of more than...
By Michael Cass • THE TENNESSEAN • November 12, 2008 Nashville's after-hours clubs, where patrons can bring their own alcoholic beverages after bars stop serving them, soon could lose their reason to exist. Alcohol would no...
Metro Nashville would be able to use "green infrastructure" like planters and tree boxes on the public right of way to help manage its extensive storm-water problems under legislation introduced Tuesday.
By MICHAEL CASS • Staff Writer • November 11, 2008 Metro Nashville would manage stormwater with "green infrastructure" such as planters and tree boxes on public right of way under Metro Council legislation that will be...
By MICHAEL CASS • Staff Writer • November 11, 2008 Mayor Karl Dean has appointed a six-person committee to oversee a new "event marketing fund" for the city. The fund will use a 50-cent nightly hotel room tax to raise money to...
By Michael Cass • THE TENNESSEAN • November 9, 2008 They like to mix it up, with mixed results. Attorney Jim Roberts has sued Davidson County Election Commission twice. One of Roberts’ associates, former Republican Party...