I used to always think nashville drivers just sucked, but i moved downtown about a week ago and man..... I'd like to think im a pretty good driver, been doing time attack for 5 or so years. But between roads just randomly turning in to one ways and confusing light placement im starting to think it's more an issue of terrible road design. I blew a red light for the first time in my life the other day and genuinely had to just park and reflect for a while ( it was one of those wierd side mounted ones and it just blended in with the business signs in my peripheral). Pulled out in front of some poor soul because I didnt realize that what seemed like an alleyway was actually considered the 'main' lane and it was actually MY lane that was merging in to his or hers. Seriously got me reevaluating my driving ability after a week in the city.

It’s literally the worst of all worlds. Hotter, more humid summers than some parts of Florida. Rainier year-round than Seattle. Winters can be catastrophic and leave people without power for weeks. I do like living here, but I have considered moving only because of the weather lol on the flipside the people are awesome. I can’t imagine a more welcoming positive supportive city.

Edit: i’ve thought this my entire 16+ years here lol

My neighbor sent me the first picture this morning and asked me if I was digging a hole in the rain last night.

Don't know how deep it goes, if it's only under my landscaping or if it's just the corner of it and the real sink hole is under my living room floor.

I blame Elon. ^/s

Anybody else’s bones hurting extra this week? Is it the weather?

Noshville to close in summer 2027 | Exclusive

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Hey everyone,
Have yall noticed the lack of trashcans in our urban areas? I walk a lot and feel like no matter where I am (other than broadway) I hardly notice any.

I’ve made some request to Hub Nashville only to be told it doesn’t fit the criteria. Has anyone had luck in requesting a trashcan? I just want to throw away my trash instead of pocketing it till I get home

On the corner of Sidco and Harding. I have so many questions, mostly because I’ve never heard of this belief system before.

Last night, while checking flightradar24 during the storms, I watched a sole plane, a flight from Orlando, during a brief break, try to land at BNA. It got down to ~3000ft on its approach only to have to pull up and head to Indianapolis or Louisville. One of several diversions last night.

GONE. I have one ticket to give away for tonight’s game vs Montreal. Section 220 row B. DM me with your email address if you want it.

Particularly when we get these intense rainfall events, there's a lot of local variation in rainfall accumulation. Totals for yesterday's storm and for the month to date are attached from the Community Collaborative Rain, Hail, & Snow Network are attached. Last night the largest rainfall amounts trace the Davidson-Sumner and Davidson-Wilson borders quite well. Hermitage/Mount Juliet and the Brentwood-Nolensville corridor have seen the highest amounts of rain month-to-date.

Moving to Middle Tennessee in October and looking to meet some folks to chase ducks with this season. I’ll be staying with family in Nolensville while I get settled and find a place of my own. I’m a 23-year-old journeyman lineman, and I bring my own boat and gear, along with a trained black Lab that loves to hunt. I’m coming from Virginia, where the waterfowl hunting was pretty slim, so I’m excited to experience what Tennessee has to offer. I’m always up for sharing a blind, helping out in the offseason, and enjoying a few Miller Lites while watching college football after the hunt. Feel free to reach out if you’re looking for another hunting partner this fall.

Final post. Thanks to everyone who followed this. From a broken museum exhibit to a $300 million question about who actually controls Nashville’s money.

Let me be disciplined about separating what I’ve shown from what I haven’t.

What I think is well established:

Nashville generates enormous tourism revenue, and the city controls surprisingly little of it. The hotel taxes are almost entirely pre-committed by ordinance; the much larger TDZ sales-tax capture got locked to the convention center and then, in 2026, pulled under a board where six of nine appointees answer to state officials, not to Nashville. The Comptroller’s own framing is that 70% of that money is “state” funds — a claim that’s contestable, since a big share comes from hotel and occupancy taxes levied under Metro’s own ordinances.

The person who built that arrangement, Speaker Cameron Sexton, represents Crossville — two hours away, no Nashville constituents — while credible reporting since 2023 indicates his family actually lives in Nashville, in a home bought through an anonymous trust, financed by a bank where he sits on the board, all while he billed taxpayers $92,000 for a commute from a district he may not really live in.

And none of this is isolated. Since Nashville’s Metro Council rejected the 2024 Republican National Convention in 2022, the legislature has moved repeatedly against the city — halving the Council, reaching for the airport and sports authority boards, and, backed by a specific set of Broadway bar interests, trying to strip Metro’s oversight of downtown bars. The 2026 tourism-money takeover is the latest and most lucrative chapter of that campaign.

What I’m explicitly not claiming: I’m not claiming anyone took a bribe. I’ve seen no evidence of a quid pro quo.

I’m also not claiming Nashville’s hands are clean. The Broadway tax crisis that triggered the 2026 bailout was real (some bills quadrupled) and it was worsened by Metro’s own choices: a 45% jump in property values that the mayor and Council didn’t offset with a lower rate, and an Urban Services District rate hike on top. The state didn’t invent that crisis. It exploited it.

What actually remains open, and these are public records anyone can pull:

1. The campaign finance question. Does the money trail match the favor trail? The Tennessee Registry of Election Finance (apps.tn.gov/tncamp) is searchable. Someone should run Sexton’s campaign account and Cam PAC against Steve Smith, Tootsie’s Entertainment, the Broadway Entertainment Association and its director Rob Mortensen, and the bill sponsors — Rep. Johnny Garrett, Sen. Paul Bailey, Rep. Clark Boyd — and check whether contributions cluster before the 2023 beer bill or the 2026 tourism bill. I haven’t done this. It’s the single highest-value thing left to check.

2. The One Bank of Tennessee question. Sexton sits on the board of the bank that quietly financed his Nashville home. Does that bank have lending relationships with any Broadway or TDZ operators? That’s checkable through the Davidson County Register of Deeds and Secretary of State UCC filings. As far as I can tell, nobody’s looked.

3. The composition of the surplus. We know that in a single year, roughly 47% of the convention center’s tourism tax collections came from the TDZ state sales-tax increment, but about 39% came from hotel and occupancy taxes levied under Metro’s own ordinances. Nobody has established how the accumulated $300M+ surplus breaks down by source — which matters, because it directly tests the Comptroller’s “70% is state money” claim. That answer is likely in the Convention Center Authority’s audited statements.

4. The people outside the line. The 2026 relief is bounded by the tourism zone. Somewhere just past that boundary is a small business that ate the same reappraisal with no rescue coming. Their story hasn’t been told.

Why I bothered with all this...

I’m not a journalist. I’m a resident who took his kid to a science museum that felt frozen in 2003, got curious, and followed the money. What I found is that the money is there, a lot of it, but the decisions about where it goes are increasingly made by people Nashville can’t vote for, for beneficiaries most of us never chose.

The museum will still be outdated next month. But maybe more of us now understand why, and it isn’t that the city is poor. It’s that Nashville, more and more, doesn’t get to decide what happens with Nashville’s money.

If any of this interests a working journalist: Phil Williams at NewsChannel 5 has owned pieces of this beat, and the campaign-finance and One Bank threads above are the ones still waiting to be pulled. The records are public. Someone just has to go look.

This survey is for the PEL Study being done by TDOT for the downtown core. If you care about the direction of transportation in this city for the next generation please fill this out. This is probably the one point where you can make a difference.

Looking for a job. I’m young and trying to make a career. I’ve put in dozens of applications with nothing. I have 5 years supervisor experience in a warehouse. Also retail management experience. I’m down to learn or do something new as well. Anyone have any connections or know someone that’ll hire or at least interview me? Need at least 28/hr.

Please let me know any leads. I know a lot of people are struggling to find work right now. Down with Mount Juliet, Hendersonville, Lebanon, gallatin, etc

I would like to make a small donation to a local charity that serves the awesome people of our city. Who do we like?

We made national news with the arrest of homeless people at South Inglewood Park.

I'm just sitting on my porch enjoying the show!

That was just kind of insane. I've seen situations where AWS servers go down and multiple services are affected, but nothing like that, even if it was relatively brief.