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“It was an older home, we thought, you know all it needed was a slap of paint, the carpets cleaned and it would be all right,” she says.
She soon discovered the house had mold, bedbugs, rats that chewed through the walls, and cockroaches breeding in the cupboards.
This week, many in Nashville are re-examining the mass transit referendum that voters defeated in 2018.
A national pro-transit group is offering a comprehensive look-back at why Nashville voters rejected a mass transit plan two years ago, and offering sharp critiques of the administration of former Mayor Megan Barry and the Nashville Area Chamber of Commerce.
Nashville’s Metro Council is the latest group to ask Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee to veto a controversial adoption law passed by the General Assembly.
A soon-to-be signed adoption law in Tennessee is stirring fears of an economic backlash. Companies and conventions have threatened to stop doing business with the state because of legislation that allows faith-based adoption agencies to refuse placements based on their religious beliefs.
