Mayor Freddie O’Connell has announced that Nashville’s Community Oversight Board will likely keep its current staff — including Executive Director Jill Fitcheard — even after it is reconstituted as a Civilian Review Board.
Controversial Franklin leader escapes censure after violating city’s ethics code
The Franklin Board of Mayor and Aldermen has decided not to censure controversial alderman and mayoral candidate Gabrielle Hanson for violating the city’s ethics code.
Freddie O’Connell sworn in as mayor of Nashville in private ceremony
Judge David Briley, himself a former mayor, administered the oath, and he presented the new mayor with an original 1962 Metropolitan Nashville charter.
Nashville voters take their convictions to the ballot box
As polls opened at 7 a.m. today in Nashville, early bird voters brought strong opinions to their balloting for mayor and seven remaining seats on the Metro Council. (Some parts of the county are also deciding the House District 51 contest today.) At Eakin Elementary, Lien Nguyen said she’s concerned about political participation in Nashville’s […]
Early voting for the Nashville runoff ends with a spike in turnout
Nashville early voting ended this weekend with a total of 68,319 Nashvillians — or about 14% of registered voters — making their decisions on a ballot headlined by the mayoral runoff between candidates Freddie O’Connell and Alice Rolli.
Knoxville Rep. Gloria Johnson announces U.S. Senate run for Marsha Blackburn’s seat
Standing in front of the Knoxville high school where she used to teach, state Rep. Gloria Johnson announced that she is running to replace Republican Marsha Blackburn in the U.S. Senate. Johnson, a Democrat, then traveled to Nashville and Memphis to celebrate her announcement with supporters in Tennessee’s three largest cities.
The legislature did not pass gun reform during the special session. These are the bills they did pass.
From the beginning of the special session, Senate leadership said they were only planning to pass three bills in addition to the budget. And that’s exactly what they did.
Covenant parents turn their focus to upcoming elections after a disappointing special session
Covenant School parents have been at the Tennessee Capitol throughout the special session — holding signs, wearing ribbons in school colors and hoping for gun reform.
Nashville Rep. Justin Jones silenced after being ruled ‘out of order’
Nashville Rep. Justin Jones was silenced on the Tennessee House floor after he was ruled out of order on Monday.
Child autopsy bill spurs debate pitting privacy against transparency
As the special session continues, one of the bills heading to the Tennessee Senate would remove the autopsies of children who are victims of violent crime from the public record. Only their legal guardians would have the right to release them.
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