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Nashville celebrates Veterans Day

BY MATT MASTERS

A memorial site at the Covenant School following the March 27 shooting

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City memo addresses leaked Covenant papers

BY ELI MOTYCKA

Photographs of three handwritten pages leaked somewhere between the Metro Nashville Police Department, the mayor’s office, city lawyers and two courtrooms, according to a memo from the Metro Department of Law. The pages from the Covenant School shooter’s personal journal found their way to conservative pundit Steven Crowder, who published them online Monday.

Shortly after, seven officers were reassigned

by MNPD in order to “protect the active, progressing investigation” into the leak, which was quickly picked up by national media.

Sharing these documents violates an active court order, explains Metro law director Wally Dietz in a two-page memo shared with media on Thursday evening. (See a PDF of the memo embedded within this post.)

Crowder posted images of three pages attributed to Covenant School shooter Audrey Hale, a former student at Covenant who was killed by Metro police after killing

three children and three adults at the school on March 27. The pages include Hale’s timestamped plan for the day of the shooting and scattered fantasies about killing Covenant School students. Conservative commentators and politicians have focused on Hale’s use of slurs to argue that the journal pages should be understood as evidence of a motive, beyond just disjointed ramblings.

After the pages’ release, Nashville Mayor Freddie O’Connell announced an internal investigation headed by Dietz. Two days later, Metro police confirmed that seven officers had been reassigned to administrative roles as a “non-punitive” decision related to the city’s internal investigation into the document leak. Police Chief John Drake had previously confirmed the authenticity of the documents released by Crowder.

On Thursday, Dietz laid out the chain of custody of the released documents, which had originally been photographed at the crime scene after police searched Hale’s vehicle.

The police provided the documents to Metro Legal. In early May, Metro Legal filed two versions — the full documents and a redacted version compliant with the Tennessee Public Records Act — with Davidson County Chancery Court, which faced suits from media and Second Amendment groups compelling the city to release Hale’s writings.

Covenant parents immediately opposed the release of Hale’s writings and successfully blocked their release, winning a ruling from the Chancery Court that put the documents under seal. The matter now sits with the Tennessee Court of Appeals, which heard arguments on Oct. 16.

Dietz’s memo suggests that the city will continue its investigation into potential suspects. On X (formerly Twitter), Crowder — who refers to his source as a whistleblower — denied that the documents came from a Metro police officer.

This story was first published by our sister publication Nashville Scene.

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Nashville and communities across Middle Tennessee recognized Veterans Day with ceremonies and parades.

On Thursday, Nov. 9, Tenn. Gov. Bill Lee was joined by Army National Guard Adjutant General Warner A. Ross II to recognize nearly 450,000 Tennessee veterans, including five who are state employees at the National Guard’s Hall of Flags in its Nashville headquarters.

“The Tennesseans who have bravely served our state and nation deserve our highest honor and respect,” Lee said. “As we come together to honor these remarkable individuals, let us remember that the Volunteer State’s spirit lives on through their bravery and commitment to defending our freedoms.”

Those five state employees are 47-year Tennessee Air National Guard veteran Theresa Hicks, who currently works as a production assistant director in the Department of General Services; 28-year Marine Corps veteran Steve Ward, who currently manages Radnor Lake State Park; >> PAGE 4 Army Reserves veteran Dr.

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VFW needs younger veterans to stay afloat

BY HANNAH HERNER, MATT MASTERS

Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 1970

Tony Jennette, a 72-year-old Vietnam Veteran and Nashville native, has been coming to the Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 1970 for 52 years.

“I was in Vietnam out in the jungle, and they sent me a care package,” Jennette tells the Scene. “They were trying to get members. They sent me a care package with two cans of mustard sardines, some Wyler’s lemonade mix and a VFW card.”

The VFW is a nonprofit organization originally founded in 1899 to arrange services for veterans of the Spanish-American War and the Philippine-American War. Today it continues to help connect veterans to social services, including health care, disability assistance and education, and it advocates for legislation like the PACT Act and the GI Bill. The first three words of the VFW’s mission statement are “To foster camaraderie” — it’s a mission that often played out in post cantinas, though that’s seemingly becoming harder to accomplish.

The Charlotte Pike VFW location, founded in 1968, is one of two in Nashville, and one of 6,000 internationally, according to the VFW website. The 4.24-acre property was listed for $9.5 million in June. It has been rezoned to allow the buyer to redevelop

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the site with a mixed-use building with up to 216 residential units.

Benny Marshall, quartermaster of VFW Post 1970, tells the Scene the post plans to relocate in the West Nashville area. He hopes to have a more modern bar area, more seating, a larger kitchen and a new stage.

A new location will be free of plumbing and electrical issues, but will also lack the hand-painted patriotic murals, the stage where John Rich filmed a forthcoming music video and the residual cigarette smoke and ambience that the current location offers.

The newness could leave behind a few regulars too.

A veteran of the first Gulf War, Marshall started coming to the VFW while renting kitchen space for his company, Cobbler Creations. Marshall wants to diversify the income of the VFW by offering space for food trucks to cook and store food outside of the vehicle (as required by law) and camping space for traveling veterans.

“The Vietnam vets are getting old,” Marshall says. “They’re in their 70s and 80s.

There’s fewer and fewer of them coming in.

We’re trying to attract a younger crowd.”

Jason Quigg currently serves as commander of VFW Post 1970, where he

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oversees operations. He has held several elected leadership roles in the organization since he joined in 2018. Quigg retired from the U.S. Army in 2021 with the rank of a sergeant first class after 26 years of service.

“It’s hard to get both younger veterans in their 30s and younger, or even in their 40s, [to join] because of the environmental and economical change in our society,” says Quigg. “It’s just been challenging trying to communicate to that younger generation that we’re here for you as well, and the more you’re involved, the more benefit your generation is going to have in the future.”

During the pandemic, members redecorated the cantina, and in the past few months they’ve started serving food again.

Post 1970 does service work, from toy and food drives to collecting items for veterans in need. They’ve also fulfilled other community needs such as helping with cleanup efforts following the deadly March 2020 tornado that devastated parts of Nashville and beyond. They have ice cream socials, chili cookoffs, steak nights, karaoke nights and football watch parties — but they don’t have an advertising or outreach budget to speak of.

Jennette says when he first started coming to the VFW he benefited from hanging out with the older veterans, but the cycle seems to have ended now that he’s the older guy.

“The young ones, they don’t care,” he says. “They don’t ask me much. This place ain’t got no windows, and it seems like there’s not enough stuff to do in here to keep a young person occupied. They’d rather go uptown and pay $9 for a beer than pay $3 here. We’d love for young people to come. …

We got a pool table, but it just ain’t enough to keep ’em going. I guess there’s not enough people their own age.”

Quigg says he hopes a younger generation of servicemembers and veterans can help keep the VFW alive by embracing the internet and social media platforms to help grow membership.

Guests are welcome, and civilians with direct familial relationships to veterans who served in overseas combat zones can also support the VFW and their members through the VFW Auxiliary.

“Everybody thinks when they were growing up, the VFW was just this smoky bar my grandfather went to, not fully understanding the full purpose of our national charter,” Quigg says. “Once they’re out [of their military service], they think, ‘I’m just out, there’s nothing else for me,’ and it’s just not that way.”

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Petrina York, who currently serves as a veterinary diagnostician at the Kord Animal Health Diagnostic Laboratory; Tennessee Air National Guard veteran Keith Norman serves as firefighter manager with 25 years of firefighting experience; Navy veteran Lacy Conner serves as a case Management coordinator, a role that she’s worked in since 2017.

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“Our veterans represent everything good about Tennessee,” Ross said. “We can never fully repay them for all that they sacrificed, but we must take every chance we can to try.”

On Saturday, Nov. 11, crowds lined Broadway in downtown Nashville for the annual Veterans Day parade, which saw the participation of hundreds of veterans, active duty military members, first responders,

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schools and service groups, including performances by the 101st Airborne Division Band.

Retired Air Force Brigadier General Eden Murrie and musician Kid Rock served as CoGrand Marshals for the parade.

Numerous other Veterans Day ceremonies took place throughout Middle Tennessee, including a gathering of the Kiwanis Club of

Nashville which gathered at Centennial Park on Saturday.

The ceremony included a World War I remembrance with remarks from historical architect Kem Hinton, U.S. Army Col. Steven Todd and veteran’s advocate Jennifer O’Neill, as well as performances by a military band and a WWI camp reenactment.

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All Out for Palestine Peace Rally, 11/11/23

BY D. PATRICK RODGERS

For the second Saturday in a row, large crowds gathered at Centennial Park and along West End Avenue over the weekend calling for a ceasefire in Gaza.

Five weeks ago, Palestinian terrorist organization Hamas launched a deadly and unexpected attack on Israel, leaving 1,400 Israelis dead and taking 240 hostages — among them children, the elderly and peace activists. Israel’s military responded

with attacks on the Gaza Strip that have resulted in well over 10,000 reported deaths, including children, health care workers and untold other innocents.

Waving Palestinian flags and carrying signs featuring slogans including “No tax $$ for the genocide of Palestinians” and “Nashville stands with Palestine,” demonstrators gathered near the Centennial Park entrance at 1 p.m. Saturday for the All

Out for Palestine Peace Rally. Only a few hundred feet away at the park’s World War I monument, a crowd of a few dozen — including a military band — gathered for a Veterans Day event.

Over the course of two hours, the protesters — chanting refrains including “ceasefire now,” “free Palestine” and “stop the killing, stop the war” — crossed West End and returned, ultimately marching to the steps

of the Parthenon, where speakers addressed the crowd. The demonstration proved to be peaceful, with no apparent counterprotesters present throughout the event.

Nashville has also seen large pro-Israel demonstrations in recent weeks, including gatherings at the Gordon Jewish Community Center and at Legislative Plaza in October.

This story was first published by our sister publication Nashville Scene.

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Republican leaders consider rejecting federal education funds

BY KELSEY BEYELER

“If you want to know how to make the left mad, just tell them you’re not gonna take federal money, or you don’t want to take federal money.”

That was state House Speaker Cameron Sexton (R-Crossville) at an Oct. 25 meeting for the Republican Women of Williamson County.

Not long before, Sexton and Senate leader Lt. Gov. Randy McNally (R-Oak Ridge) called a joint task force to consider rejecting more than $1 billion in annual federal education funding. The committee, composed of eight Republicans and two Democrats, is tasked with gathering related information to determine the feasibility of turning down federal dollars and creating “a strategy on how to reject certain federal funding or how to eliminate unwanted restrictions placed on the state due to the receipt of such federal funds” to present to the General Assembly in January.

“There is no precursor to the outcome of what this committee is going to do,” said task force co-chair Sen. Jon Lundberg (R-Bristol) during his opening remarks — though he later expressed frustration that those testifying were being “defensive” about the matter. State leaders have said rejecting the funding wouldn’t mean schools have to go without it, as the state could replace the federal money with its own.

In its first week, the task force heard from Tennessee’s Office of Research and Education Accountability and the legislature’s Fiscal Review Committee, along with think tank The Sycamore Institute, Tennessee school leaders and the National Conference of State Legislatures. According to Lundberg, the U.S. Department of Education was scheduled to testify, but declined to attend the meeting, instead offering only “technical assistance.”

But as reported by Kimberlee Kruesi of the Associated Press, according to a DOE spokesperson, they were never invited.

No state has ever rejected federal education funds, and so the financial and procedural implications of this monumental move are unclear.

A major question lawmakers are discussing: What strings are attached to federal education funds, and how do they affect schools? It’s a question that four school leaders from across the state declined to answer when asked by Sen. Raumesh Akbari (D-Memphis). They focused instead on the many costs that arise within districts, and the need to address them through dedicated — and increased — funding.

Republicans often mention the so-called strings, but in committee meetings they’ve never stated exactly what they’re worried about.

Sexton, however, mentioned Title IX as one of the concerns at the October Republican Women of Williamson County meeting.

Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 “prohibits discrimination based on sex.”

The Biden administration has proposed adding protections for transgender students into Title IX, though nothing has been made official.

The considered changes would contradict Tennessee’s 2021 law requiring transgender students to play on sports teams that reflect the gender assigned on their birth certificate, as opposed to their gender identity. In 2021, Tennessee filed a related lawsuit.

The Sycamore Institute published and presented a report on what rejecting federal funds could mean for Tennessee. The report details what the funds are used for, what requirements are attached to them and the questions that would arise should the state reject federal funds. It also highlights three programs that make up the bulk of federal funding allocation, each with its own set of processes and requirements. Child nutrition programs, which come through the U.S. Department of Agriculture, subsidize the cost of feeding qualifying students but require certain eligibility and food standards. Title I of the Every Student Succeeds Act supports students from low-income families through additional funding, but requires states to create a range of academic assessments, standards and accountability models, and Tennessee has had compliance issues with these testing requirements. The Individuals with Disabilities Education Act supports students with disabilities by requiring a “free appropriate public education” — schools must create and follow individualized education plans, among other measures, to comply with these standards.

Broader requirements attached to federal funding include those of Title IX, and Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which “bars discrimination based on actual or perceived race, color or national origin.”

Some of these assurances, such as protections for English learners and students with disabilities, would still be required through, for instance, the 14th Amendment, the Equal Educational Opportunities Act and the Americans with Disabilities Act — but the absence of federal funding would mean less accountability.

“That’s very scary,” says Candice Ashburn, a parent of a special education student. “When I think about layers of protections being taken away — because we don’t get what we need even with the current levels of protection. …

In Williamson County, we have to fight every single day to get our kids in special education — who are supposed to have the protection of the [Individuals with Disabilities Education Act] — to get what they deserve. And I’m in, supposedly, a county that is resourced.”

Ashburn continues: “I don’t trust them when they say, ‘We’ll cover it.’ … You can’t ask people to make budgets and plans based on the hypothetical ‘We’ll cover it.’”

Matt Masters contributed to this reporting.

This story was first published by our sister publication Nashville Scene.

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‘Terrible night for Republicans’: takeaways from this week’s elections

BY BILL FREEMAN

Time will tell, but these election results are the first sign that, despite what someone may answer on a polling question, the voting booth is where it really matters: People are tired of extremes. President Biden said it best in his short-and-sweet social media post after the election results were counted: “Across the country tonight, democracy won and MAGA lost. Voters vote. Polls don’t. Now let’s go win next year.”

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To borrow an apt phrase from former Fox News anchor and MAGA lightning rod Megyn Kelly, last week’s elections were “a terrible night for Republicans.” In essentially every election across the country, the results convincingly show that Americans are growing increasingly weary of extremism.

Even among those with supposedly bulletproof MAGA endorsements, nearly every extreme candidate lost — and lost big.

The first example is just across our northern border. In Kentucky, incumbent Gov. Andy Beshear, a Democrat in a red state and red region, won reelection solidly over his Trump-endorsed MAGA opponent.

Examples like Gov. Beshear’s victory were echoed in other states, as reported by NBC News: “Democrats won critical races in Virginia and Pennsylvania — states seen as barometers for the 2024 vote — as well as in Kentucky, where the governor won by a wider margin in his reelection bid than in his first go-round, beating a rival backed by former President Donald Trump.”

That’s about as clear as you can get: Staunchly conservative Kentucky reelects a Democrat to the highest office in the state, despite having a Trump-endorsed candidate as an alternative. Not only did Kentucky vote to keep Beshear in the governor’s office —

voters also handed him election results that put him further across the finish line than he was in his first race for the office. It’s clear that moderation, hard work and listening to the will of the people are the right ways to govern. In this season of intense political messaging, these elections show us that they’re also the right way to campaign.

The election results also show us that Americans are growing tired of outside interference in matters that have no place in politics and legislation. Women’s reproductive health is a personal matter between a woman, her partner and her medical professionals. In red-leaning Ohio, voters established a woman’s right to choose her reproductive options, making it clear that the majority does not support a ban. It goes against America’s grain to ban basic freedoms like reproductive health choices. As Reuters put it: “Tuesday’s victory by Democratic incumbent Gov. Andy Beshear in Kentucky over a well-regarded Republican opponent, the passage in Republican-voting Ohio of a constitutional amendment guaranteeing abortion rights and Democratic wins in the battleground state of Pennsylvania showed the overall strength of Biden’s party.”

This comment leads me to question the results of recent polling that have suggested

President Joe Biden is trailing Trump in key swing states. After all, this is the first presidential administration that has had to endure a vengeful former officeholder incessantly taking metaphorical swings at the current officeholder. We have no precedent regarding the impact of Trump’s negative comments and social media influence on polling results. It is clear that Biden’s legislative victories and economic policies are methodically and carefully positioning our country for continued success, despite the instability in the world and the deepening chasm between the extreme political positions in our country.

Biden has made it a foundational goal of his administration to bridge this divide and speak to the commonalities among us all, and he has made good progress toward that goal during his first term. These recent election results reflect this — people are tired of extremes. As the conservativeleaning editorial board of The Wall Street Journal even commented: “Democrats are buoyant about their Tuesday night election showing, and why not? They handed Republicans another drubbing with their twin issue set of abortion rights and fear and loathing of the MAGAGOP. Republicans have a brand perception problem.”

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Nashville General continues quest for new hospital

BY HANNAH HERNER

Nashville General Hospital is approaching its planned move with a new chair of the Hospital Authority Board and a new mayoral administration, but plans to relocate the hospital continue to hit the same roadblocks.

At the Oct. 26 Hospital Authority Board meeting, Frank Stevenson was elected chair, replacing Richard Manson. Stevenson and Nashville General Hospital CEO Joseph Webb have yet to meet with the new administration to make their plea for Metro to donate land to build a new hospital.

However, O’Connell said Webb briefed him during his campaign. Nashville General Hospital executives and board members have been discussing relocating from the current facility on the Meharry Medical College campus to a new facility for years, but the clock is ticking to begin construction in time to finish the hospital before the lease with Meharry ends in 2027.

“Everybody knows there’s a lease coming up,” O’Connell told the Post. “We will be getting together very soon to look at specific proposals and plans. It’s one of the things that our team with Bob Mendes as chief development officer is looking at as well.”

In May 2022, a contractor presented a potential MetroCenter site, currently under the management of the Metro Parks

Department, to the Hospital Authority Board. At the time, Meharry Medical College, for which Nashville General Hospital has long served as a teaching hospital, bristled at the announcement. Since then, hospital executives have been mum about desired locations.

O’Connell said hospital executives indicated to him prior to his election in September that the MetroCenter location was the desired choice for the new hospital.

He added that the mayor’s office is committed to putting “appropriate resources to the site selection analysis.”

When asked if he foresees the city donating land for the location, O’Connell said, “I’d say that’s still an open question.

That was one of my questions for Dr. Webb is: Do they have support of the Parks board?

So that’s still an open question.”

Jackie Jones, spokesperson for Metro Department of Parks and Recreation, told the Post Thursday that the department has yet to hear from the hospital on any desired plots for a future Nashville General Hospital.

Stevenson told the Post no location is “off the table” and, when asked if he still wants the city to donate land for the new build, he said, “you’re not really donating land; it’s a city hospital.”

As of August, Richard Manson was set to chair the board for the second year, but O’Connell chose not to reappoint him to the board. He has bigger plans for Manson, an attorney and CEO of local medical equipment manufacturing company, Sourcemark.

“As we look at expanding opportunities for business, Manson has a big role to play in that,” the mayor said Thursday. “We are going to look to work on access in the vendor, supplier and construction process as we have the East Bank underway. We’re probably going to ask him to take on different roles in the city going forward as well.”

Dean of students at Tennessee State University and senior pastor of Friendship Missionary Baptist Church, Stevenson has been a part of the Hospital Authority Board for eight years and previously served as chair of the finance committee.

This fiscal year, Metro granted the hospital $57.8 million out of a requested $60.2 million. Stevenson said he was satisfied with the funding because it included $7.34 million in capital funding to improve the current building.

“The city funding is a big component in terms of the hospital’s success and struggles,” he said. “There have been times when the hospital’s been fully funded, and we’ve

experienced some amazing opportunities, and there’ve been other times when the appropriations that were given to the hospital were insignificant. Before we could finish those years, we were having to make some tough decisions.”

Now under his fourth mayoral administration, Stevenson wants to push forward discussions of the new location with O’Connell.

“We have a new mayor, but it’s not a new person that’s new to the city,” Stevenson said.

“He’s been a councilman. He gets it. He’s had conversations with the board about the hospital over the years as a councilmember. He’s very well aware of the role and responsibility of the hospital. As we chart out what this looks like, I think it’s good to be able to do it with someone who has such familiarity.”

He added: “I think the board is obviously responsible for making sure we’re intentional about the services that the hospital provides for the city of Nashville and location, obviously, is a component of that. Those discussions must not only start with us, but they have to have the board’s approval, have the board’s influence and have the board’s direction in terms of what that looks like.”

This story was first published by our sister publication Nashville Post.

Five takeaways from Power of Ten housing conversation

BY NICOLLE S. PRAINO

with us,” O’Connell said. “This is why it’s so important to work together on transportation, infrastructure and housing.

Any successes we have in Nashville, we want to share. This should be a time when we are proud of collective best practices and we’re just as happy to steal good ideas from anyone.”

The keynote speaker, Shane Phillips, manages the housing initiative within the UCLA Lewis Center for Regional Policy Studies. He spoke on some of the highlights from his book The Affordable City, which offers recommendations for housing strategies and policies in terms of supply, stability and subsidy.

Here are five key takeaways from the event.

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Cumberland Region Tomorrow hosted its annual Power of Ten event last week with an emphasis on “a more affordable region.”

Mayor Freddie O’Connell opened the discussion and was followed by other local officials and experts in the field.

“If Nashville struggles to manage our growth, the region bears those costs

HOUSING POLICY IN GOVERNMENT IS THE BEGINNING. “Local government is at the tip of the spear when it comes to change and housing,” Clarksville Mayor Joe Pitts said in a panel that wrapped up the event.

“I think at some level, this all comes down to policy,” Phillips said. He explained that local governments must be supported by state governments in order to address the problem.

Tennessee Housing Development Agency Executive Director Ralph Perrey said that his organization receives no state appropriations. Still, he said he is encouraged that Gov. Bill Lee and leaders of the Tennessee General Assembly are talking with the agency about additional resources to support the development of affordable single-family homes.

Dale Mitchell from Pinnacle Financial Partners called on municipal representatives in the audience to assess their governmentowned properties that can be made available for affordable housing.

“Inventory it, remove all the obstacles for accessing it, make it available so that we can have some impact and increase the supply,” Mitchell said.

BUT, IT TAKES A PUBLIC-PRIVATE PARTNERSHIP. “Local governments have limited tools, but we have tools,” Pitts said. “We need the private sector to step up, and we don’t just mean the for-profit private sector.”

He said faith-based organizations play a big part in Clarksville’s community.

“I think that is ultimately something that Nashville does well, because it’s our culture to collaborate,” said Nancy VanReece, vice

president of strategic engagement with LDG Development and a former Metro councilmember. She noted nonprofits play a role with private companies too.

Nick Ogden, CEO of The Clear Blue Company, said coming up with ways to expedite the process for affordable housing is key.

“When we talk about public-private partnerships, what I think the biggest barrier to entry is, is making it easier for developers.”

Added Perrey from the THDA: “There is an important local role in creating the conditions that make it easier to build the range of housing that our communities need.

I have also encouraged the General Assembly to provide local government more flexibility to provide incentives and voluntary measures of various types.”

DOING NOTHING DOES NOT MEAN NOTHING CHANGES. Phillips warned early on in his presentation that he was not suggesting Nashville should be like California. In fact, he said that it must do the opposite.

“Los Angeles experienced a lot of demand starting decades ago, and its response was really just to bury its head in the sand and hope that if it didn’t plan for more people

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then they just wouldn’t arrive,” he said. “That did not work.”

Dealing with the supply side of housing is a necessity because people will move to the area anyway, Phillips said, adding that doesn’t have to just be a burden but it can be an opportunity.

“You can plan for that change or not,” he said. “But, it is happening in one form or another. So you can focus on the negatives and let it weigh you down or you can roll up your sleeves and really make the most of it.”

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RESOLVING HOUSING AND TRANSIT ISSUES TOGETHER ARE KEY FOR A BALANCED ECONOMY. “As we continue to see an expansion of our prosperity … we’re going to have to pay attention to affordability of housing and the institution of appropriate transit because that’s going to connect opportunity,” Nashville Area Chamber of Commerce President Ralph Schulz said.

He added that if we resolve the issues cohesively there will be a balanced growth of the economy.

“Transit is affordable housing policy,” O’Connell said. “As we come together as a region around transit-oriented development, we ensure that our overall regional planning doesn’t mean we’re just sprawling into old farmland but rather creating housing in scenarios where people want it and need it.”

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“We need the people who need affordable housing, and we will need to work together to provide it for them,” Perrey said.

Transit policy is just the beginning of the complexities with housing.

“Getting someone in their first home is really just the first step because there are additional resources that are needed to maintain the stability of the households,” Mitchell said.

He explained that if there is not, for example, affordable and accessible child care or health care nearby then there will be some instability in homes.

VanReece said that LDG has on average two children in every apartment home they build.

“I believe that understanding that we’re not just building apartments, we’re building neighborhoods, makes it something that everyone can begin to understand,” she said.

Ogden called on everyone to humanize the conversation of housing.

“How do we make this an urgent priority to serve the people who are serving us? It’s about service,” he said.

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Arnold’s Country Kitchen to offer service Thanksgiving week STAFF REPORTS

The owners of the closed Arnold’s Country Kitchen will offer a pop-up at The Gulch building they own and from which they once operated the meat-and-three restaurant.

The News sister publication Nashville Scene reports the pop-up will operate Nov. 20-22 from 11 a.m. until 3 p.m. each of the three days. The address is 605 Eighth Ave. S. Arnold’s will offer its regular steam table offerings, with some limited to-go options

available from the bar.

On Thanksgiving Day (Nov. 23) the owners will offer two seatings: at 11 a.m. and 1 p.m. Reservations are required for those meals (arnoldsmeatand3@gmail.com).

Arnold’s closed in early January, with the property seemingly to be sold to local development company SomeraRoad.

This story was first published by our sister publication Nashville Post.

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The Goddard School breaks Josephine to close in 12South ground in Brentwood STAFF REPORTS

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12South restaurant Josephine will close by year’s end.

The News sister publication Nashville Scene reports the owners of the restaurant will see their lease expire, with the last day of service to be Dec. 23.

Chef Andy Little and wife Karen Van Guilder Little own and operate the restaurant, which “integrates French techniques along with Pennsylvania Dutch

School officials at the groundbreaking ceremony for The Goddard School in Brentwood PHOTO COURTESY OF THE GODDARD SCHOOL. On Monday, national early childhood education franchise The Goddard School announced its first location in Brentwood with a groundbreaking ceremony.

The Brentwood iteration, located at 110 Winners Circle, is the third to open in Williamson County following the Cool Springs and Berry Farms schools in Franklin. It is also the seventh Goodard School to open in Middle Tennessee, with locations in Gallatin, Mount Juliet, Hendersonville, and Murfreesboro.

The 20,000 square-foot Brentwood location, which is set to officially open in the winter, will have 13 classrooms, which will provide care for approximately 200 children ages 6 weeks to 6 years old.

Additionally, the school plans to hire approximately 35 teaching.

The school will feature two multi-purpose rooms, a rock-climbing wall, a lending library and multiple outdoor playgrounds.

It will also be equipped with hospital-grade

sanitization equipment.

“Our goal is provide peace of mind for working parents, knowing that their children are in a safe and nurturing environment while building their social, emotional and academic skills,” said Marie Hairston, co-owner of the Brentwood location. “We look forward to bringing the Goddard experience to the Brentwood community where there is such a need for high-quality early childhood education.”

Co-owners Brian and Marie Hairston are partnering with Goddard School franchisees Leisa Byars and Del McSpadden, who also own The Goddard School locations in Hendersonville, Gallatin and Murfreesboro, with another school in development at the Nashville Yards campus in downtown Nashville.

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sensibilities,” the Scene notes. Specialties include hot scrapple and sourdough spaetzle.

The Littles also are known for their work at since-closed Gulch restaurant Prima and have been involved in the Nashville food and beverage industry scene since 2013, when Josephine opened at mixed-use building 12South Flats at 2310 12th Ave. S. This story was first published by our sister publication Nashville Post.

Coworking business preps for second Green Hills location STAFF REPORTS

Nashville coworking services company e|spaces will open a second Green Hills location in Burton Hills in February 2024.

According to a release, e|spaces will take 20,000 square feet of space at 1 Burton Hills Blvd., Suite 300E. That office will join the e|spaces that operates, also from 20,000 square feet, at 10 Burton Hills Blvd.

The future location will offer 45 dedicated offices ranging from large one-desk offices to 10-desk suites. Along with a front desk, waiting areas, a kitchen and cafe and other work nooks, the space will include conference rooms capable of hosting up to 50 people and that are available to rent by the hour.

Workspaces are available starting at $250 per month, with e|spaces Green Hills also to be available to rent for larger groups, outings and events.

Terms of the lease deal with 1 Burton Hills Blvd. owner Eakin Partners are not being disclosed.

“Our existing Burton Hills location has been near or at capacity since it opened, and we’ve been searching for an opportunity to provide more options for business people in the south Nashville corridor,” Jon Pirtle, CEO of e|spaces, said in the release. “We now have nearly 40,000 square feet of office and meeting space available in Green Hills for those who seek the convenience, flexibility and modernity that e|spaces offers.”

Kevin Ziomek, senior managing director, tenant representation, with the JLL Nashville office, represented e|spaces in the lease.

When the Green Hills location opens in February, e|spaces will have more than 150,000 square feet of space in Middle Tennessee.

Additional e|spaces locations are found in Chattanooga, Knoxville and Orlando.

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Nashville SC’s postseason ends with thud in another shutout loss

BY JOHN GLENNON

Nashville SC’s brief MLS playoff run ended in all too familiar fashion on Tuesday, as Orlando City SC downed the Boys in Gold 1-0 in the first postseason contest played at Geodis Park.

Orlando City swept the first-round, bestof-three series 2-0, earning 1-0 victories in each of the contests.

The loss will no doubt lead to plenty of offseason questions for Nashville, which ran out of gas following a thrilling run to the final of the Leagues Cup tournament in August.

Since falling to Lionel Messi and Inter Miami CF in that Aug. 19 contest, Nashville went 1-6-5 in its final 12 games. The Boys in Gold were shut out in six of their last seven contests, including their last seven halves spanning four games.

“The full story is that I think the season had caught up with us,” Nashville coach Gary Smith said afterward. “We can now look back and say that we peaked in the [Leagues Cup] final. There have been some very, very good things to go on throughout the year that I think we’re all gonna look back on and be very proud of.

“But there is no two ways about it. That’s painful. It was a bitterly disappointing way to go out of the playoffs.”

Smith had warned beforehand that his

team couldn’t win the game in the first 15-20 minutes against Orlando, but could go a long way toward losing it.

Those words were unfortunately prophetic for the home team, which surrendered the contest’s lone score in the sixth minute.

Bothered by Orlando’s press, Nashville midfielder Dax McCarty sent a short pass back toward central defender Walker Zimmerman. But the pass didn’t have enough zip on it. Orlando’s Ivan Angulo secured the ensuing deflection, spun and hit a shot that deflected off McCarty’s cleat before looping over the head of Nashville goalie Joe Willis.

It was the only goal Orlando would need on a night that saw Nashville muster only four shots on goal, none particularly dangerous. The Boys in Goal posted an expected goal total of 0.4, per MLS.com, compared to Orlando’s 1.2.

Nashville midfielder Hany Mukhtar, the league’s reigning MVP, wound up with zero goals and two assists in his last eight games after totaling 15 goals and nine assists in his first 28 regular-season games.

“We only have to look at our output in front of goal,” Smith said. “Our talisman and individual who’s really dragged this team

along in terms of goals for a long time has not been anywhere near as effective. I don’t know the reason for that.”

There were highlights in Nashville’s season: The team put together a 10-game unbeaten streak in MLS games that ended in June, then captured a string of Leagues Cup victories that included two penalty-kick triumphs and back-to-back shutouts at Geodis.

The Leagues Cup ended in an 11-round shootout loss, as Messi scored in regulation and on a penalty kick for Inter Miami.

But it was a slog for most of the way thereafter for Nashville. The Boys in Gold raised some hopes with a 3-2 win over the New England Revolution on Oct. 14, but the three goals Nashville scored in the first half of that contest marked the final times the team found the back of the net this season.

Nashville finished seventh in MLS’ 15-team Eastern Conference and advanced to the playoffs for the fourth time in as many seasons. But the Boys in Gold were knocked out in the first round for a second straight year.

“There were many, many facets of our game that were not close to the standards or levels that we’ve achieved and attained here for sure, and I think it will leave a very bitter taste in our mouths as we go into the

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offseason,” Smith said. “Sadly, [it’s] 12 games beyond what was an exceptional [Leagues Cup final against Miami]. But that seems like it was a lifetime ago and certainly feels maybe two lifetimes ago after being bounced out today.”

This story was first published by our sister publication Nashville Post.

Lipscomb men’s soccer headed back to NCAA Tournament

BY LOGAN BUTTS

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PHOTO BY JOHN WILKINSON/ COURTESY OF LIPSCOMB ATHLETICS

Although the Nashville-area did not send any programs to the NCAA women’s soccer tournament, Music City will be

represented in the men’s edition as Lipscomb men’s soccer is headed back to the NCAA Tournament for the third year in a row.

The Bisons (10-3-4) won the program’s fifth Atlantic Sun (ASUN) conference tournament championship on Saturday with a 1-0 victory over Bellarmine in the title game.

Lipscomb senior Javanne Smith broke the scoreless tie in the 40th minute when he slotted home a goal off an assist from Grace Christian Academy alum Malachi Jones.

The Bisons battened down the hatches to hold off the Knights while playing a man down over the final 15 minutes after goalkeeper Juan Carlos Rodriguez was sent off with a red card. He will now have to miss Lipscomb’s first-round NCAA matchup.

Smith, who also scored twice in the semifinals, was named tournament MVP. Ravenwood alum Nick Dang, sophomore Daniel Stampatori, and grad student George Macready joined Smith on the alltournament team.

However, because Bellarmine is still in its NCAA-mandated five-year Division I transitioning process, they are ineligible for any NCAA postseason appearances, which means Lipscomb clinched the program’s

fifth NCAA bid last Monday night with a 4-0 win over Central Arkansas in the ASUN semifinals.

Lipscomb will now take on Indiana (124-4) in Bloomington in the first round of this year’s tournament. The Hoosiers were the first team outside of the latest United Soccer Coaches Top-25 poll. The winner will take on No. 10-overall-seed Wake Forest.

But the Bisons are far from happy to just make an appearance on the big stage. Last season, Lipscomb earned a first-round bye and hosted a second-round match as the No. 9-overall-seed in the tournament. In 2018, they made it all the way to the Sweet 16, falling one overtime goal short of making the Elite Eight.

Although Lipscomb is the only ASUN team in the top 100 of the RPI rankings, the Bisons non-conference slate was loaded.

They defeated No. 20 Louisville 5-2 — albeit in an exhibition — and six of their eight non-conference opponents were RPI top-100 teams. Lipscomb went 2-1-3 in those six games, including a 2-1 win over then-No. 15 Saint Louis.

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Henderson revives East Bank Committee

BY ELI MOTYCKA

A rebranded, rebooted Ad Hoc East Bank Committee met last Thursday for the first time this term. Formerly focused on providing council oversight to then-Mayor John Cooper’s dealmaking with the Tennessee Titans, the committee plans to help Metro steer the area’s looming development boom.

Vice Mayor Angie Henderson reconstituted the body with five first-term councilmembers and two committee veterans — District 2’s Kyonztè Toombs and District 5’s Sean Parker — who will chair the committee this term. The other members include District 18’s Jacob Kupin, a real estate broker whose district includes the East Bank, along with Clay Capp, Terry Vo and Jeff Gregg, who represent adjacent and abutting districts. Also joining is Councilmember At-Large Quin Evans Segall, a real estate attorney and formerly a member of the city’s Industrial Development Board.

“We dropped ‘stadium’ from the name — the primary task of the previous term’s work was to look at the stadium subsidy, which is now a settled matter,” Parker tells the Scene.

“This committee will be focused on upcoming development agreements, what gets built on the East Bank, what infrastructure decisions are made, connectivity and how this area gets built out.”

The East Bank was a central focus for the development-minded Cooper throughout his term as mayor. He left office with a freshly inked $2.1-billion-dollar agreement with the Tennessee Titans, granting the struggling football team a 30-year lease and plans for a state-of-the art domed arena. State lawmakers and city lobbyists helped the Titans carve out tax streams to support the project and rally support in a split Metro Council, which approved the deal in April.

After opening remarks from Parker, the committee’s Nov. 8 agenda will include briefings from director of planning Lucy Kempf and the mayor’s chief development officer Bob Mendes. Mendes led the East Bank Committee last term and frequently scrutinized city negotiations under Cooper as the stadium deal took shape. Mendes joined his current boss, Mayor Freddie O’Connell — then a councilmember — in opposing the new Titans lease as the deal moved through the council in the spring.

Boston-based commercial developer the Fallon Company will help oversee the city’s buildout of the East Bank, though the two parties have not yet reached a contract.

This story was first published by our sister publication Nashville Scene.

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MADE SOUTH HOLIDAY MARKET On the evening of Nov. 17 and the day of Nov. 18, MADE SOUTH Holiday Market will host its ninth annual market at The Factory at Franklin. The two-day holiday shopping event will bring in makers from all over the south along with food, cocktails, music and art. Kids under 12 get in free with an attending adult.

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It’s another week of events preparing for the winter holidays. Santa is lighting up the streets — from Hendersonville to Franklin and beyond. There are several festivals where you can take the kids to meet him, snap a photo and pick up a few gifts. There’s also a great show happening at the Ryman where the proceeds go to buy gifts for kids at the holidays and, of course, a tree lighting. Get in the holiday spirit now because it appears

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As part of our series on free and cheap things to do with the family, here is our weekly roundup of places to spend time together over the next week: CENTENNIAL HOLIDAY CRAFT SHOW From Nov. 18-19, more than 190 artisans from around the country will come together

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At The Lake at Westhaven, the Franklin Makers Market Holiday Market will begin at 11 a.m. The market is free and includes holiday wares from more than 60 craft and artisan vendors as well as food and free takeyour-own-photos with Santa. (I can attest, this laid-back setup is amazing and Santa looks like the real deal.) The market focuses on local artists with a wide range of gift possibilities, including home goods, jewelry, art, stationary, clothing, and health and beauty products.

2023 CHRISTMAS 4 KIDS CONCERT This annual Christmas 4 Kids Concert at the Ryman Auditorium includes Shenandoah, Phil Vassar, Chapel Hart, Mikayla Lane and HunterGirl. Christmas 4 Kids provides hundreds of underprivileged children in Middle Tennessee with a $175 shopping spree at the holidays. Seats at the show cost between $30-50, and the funds made at the show and artist meet-and-greets are used to give more than 400 children from 29 different schools day-long chauffeured trips from their school aboard on an entertainer’s luxury tour bus with dinner and a party hosted by Santa as well as a shopping trip at Walmart in Hendersonville. All you have to do is go to the show.

SPARKLE NIGHT TREE LIGHTING Santa will be coming to the Streets of Indian Lake Mall for a tree lighting and some Thanksgiving and Christmas festivities.

The event begins at 5 p.m. and includes character visits, holiday music and more. It’ll be dark by then this time of year, so bring your jackets and a warm drink.

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