A week ago today Jason Holleman and Emily Evans made a admirable effort to amend inequities in Metro Water billing out of the Mayor's rate increases to no avail.  24 council members voted with Mayor Dean to insist that big businesses, which generate more stormwater run-off, actually pay less for th...

Nashville's blogging council member, Emily Evans, attended the Riverfront community meeting in East Nashville last week and she was not pleased with idea of recreating the wheel. She builds a head of steam and gets on a roll herself: I was a bit surprised when I attended a community meeting on redev...

Enclave readers may or may not know that I have been writing a regular column I call "Local Knowledge" over at The Nashville Free Press since its inception a few weeks ago. My subject in today's edition is CM Charlie Tygard and his effort to impose light emitting diode billboards on residential neig...

Some Enclave commenters bring up a bill that CM Michael Craddock is sponsoring to rezone a .05 acre sliver of Goodpasture Christian School property as a thinly veiled attempt to " spot zone " for a 15-foot LED billboard for the private school. One of the arguments that Charlie Tygard and other LED ...

The Tennessean suggests that registered lobbyist Joe Hall is leading the charge of the beer distributor lobbyists against the single serve ban that was deferred last night so that the Chamber of Commerce can have its way with it. Joe Hall was one of the lobbyists who did CM Jerry Maynard a solid by ...

Six Metro Council members will introduce a memorializing resolution next week asking the Tennessee Valley Authority not to raise Davidson County ratepayers' electric rates to fund the Kingston coal ash spill clean-up. As if a snowball stood a chance in hell....

Why do the editorial voices of the mainstream press shout "Enforcement!" just when council members begin to deal with the crime problems that gravitate toward high-volume sales of beer? A while back the press had issues with CM Anna Page's successful attempt to stop BYOB at crime-magnet after-hours ...

Jennifer Brooks conveys the myths: That ending alcohol in after hours clubs will end the music ("The after-hours crowd can't envision a Music City where the music stops at 3 a.m.") That the lack of after hours clubs means that people cannot drink or be with other friends after 3 a.m. ("The clubs, th...

On the heels of another neighborhood association meeting filled with residential complaints about continuing problems at a beer market at 7th and Garfield, Salemtown Neighbors President Freddie O'Connell followed up with Council Member Erica Gilmore, School Board Member Sharon Gentry (minors loiter ...

The controversial school board rezoning vote punctuated by charges that the Chamber of Commerce masterminded the plan to move north Nashville students to the inner city Pearl Cohn cluster is blowing up into a media conflagration and now so-called "liberals" are getting heat for their silence on the ...