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Eli Motycka

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Nashville Scene @nashvillescene.com · 2h
Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear soft-launched his own 2028 presidential bid at a private Nashville fundraiser for 5th Congressional District candidate Chaz Molder on Saturday.
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Beshear Campaigns for Molder as Dems Eye Midterms
Popular Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear joined forces with congressional hopeful Chaz Molder, mayor of Columbia, for a high-powered Nashville fundraiser on Saturday. The Molder campaign bagged another $120...
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Eli Motycka @ejmotycka.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Broadway generates a ton of tax revenue. Twenty years ago, before the "It City" boom, before tourists were buying $12 beers, lawmakers signed away that money with the "Tourism Development Zone." www.nashvillescene.com/news/pithint...
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State Board Begins Dividing Broadway Tax Revenue
Mayor Freddie O’Connell joined former Gov. Bill Haslam, city tourism honcho Deana Ivey and several business leaders Thursday for the first meeting of the Joint Capital Tourism Board. State lawmakers c...
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Nashville Scene @nashvillescene.com · 28/09/2026
Scene staff reporter Eli Motycka was removed from the guest list for Peter Thiel's Nashville Antichrist lectures — and he's not the only journalist who was. 🧵
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Eli Motycka @ejmotycka.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Meigs' largest class in a decade -- by far -- will still have the same guaranteed path to Hume-Fogg. MNPS approved 310 students for Meigs' sixth grade class in 2024, almost doubling the class size, per an unspecified enrollment mistake. 287 just started... www.nashvillescene.com/news/pithint...
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MNPS Guarantees Pathway to Hume-Fogg for Supersized Meigs Class
Metro will honor a coveted pathway to Hume-Fogg Academic High School for all Meigs Academic Middle School students who qualify — despite a historically large class admitted to the magnet middle school...
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Eli Motycka @ejmotycka.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
It wasn't difficult to see this coming. East Bank projects now must contend with the Super Bowl timeline, which will make Nashville's unbuilt neighborhood the focus of America in February 2030. The site's main hotel won't be ready... www.nashvillescene.com/news/pithint...
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Super Bowl Pressures Timelines on East Bank
Pressure from Super Bowl LXIV is already reshaping discussions about the East Bank. A unanimous vote Tuesday morning by the East Bank Development Authority, a government committee overseeing the area’...
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Eli Motycka @ejmotycka.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Tamika White, political director at SEIU local, advocates for new legislation from State Sen Charlane Oliver to ban corporate spending on TN elections. Oliver (right) connecting the bill to overall affordability and capture of govt by private business interests.
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Eli Motycka @ejmotycka.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Fairgrounds campaigning will likely continue through August 2027. anti-racing petitioners turned in nearly 75,000 signatures today, well over the estimated 41,000 threshold (10% of eligible Dav Co voters). "Decline to Sign" folks were there too in opposition. billionaire interests...
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Eli Motycka @ejmotycka.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Democrat Darden Copeland's schedule for local town halls. Two -- 9/26 and 10/5 -- in Nashville. He's a political consultant who started the Calvert Street Group, the public relations and campaign firm. Copeland faces incumbent Matt Van Epps (R) in the general election on Nov 3.
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Eli Motycka @ejmotycka.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Seigenthaler bridge would run another 700 feet above street level towards new stadium, per joint Titans/Metro presentation this morning at the Metro Sports Authority. MSA unanimously supports the "change order," which now goes to the East Bank Dev Authority. www.nashvillescene.com/news/pithint...
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Titans, City Seek $75 Million for Bridge Extension to New Stadium
Metro finance director Jenneen Reed joined Kellen DeCoursey, a Titans executive, to pitch the Metro Sports Authority Thursday morning on a second addition to the John Seigenthaler Pedestrian Bridge th...
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Eli Motycka @ejmotycka.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Nashville's golden age of abundant, free and convenient parking is over -- it's part of a city growing up. I wrote about it this week for the @nashvillescene.com Many residential blocks want permits, an imperfect solution used by many other cities... www.nashvillescene.com/news/citylim...
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More Nashville Neighborhoods Clamor for Parking Rights
Many residents will have to wait for the small, printed passes that have become a new Nashville currency as more cars crowd residential streets.
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