What a time to be alive in Music City. Here we are, just a little more than 200 days into 2019, and our city has already experienced more than a year’s worth of wackiness and absurdity. Nashville hosted the largest NFL Draft in history, but not without an arboreal controversy, wherein the city agreed to remove several cherry trees to make room for an outdoor stage — since we don’t have enough of those already. That was met with immense public outcry.There were also, of course, the fleets of e-scooters blocking sidewalks and various other rights of way, prompting Mayor David Briley to issue a stern statement suggesting that he just might “terminate the existing scooter pilot program [and] immediately remove all electric scooters from Nashville streets.” Of course, the Metro Council ultimately settled for compromise, stopping short of an outright ban and instead instituting stricter regulations on the ubiquitous devices.And we can’t forget the juiciest fiasco of them all — the one surrounding Republican state House Speaker Glen Casada and his aide Cade Cothren. There were questions about whether Casada’s chief of staff submitted false evidence regarding a local activist, followed by leaked text messages featuring vile, racist language, an… Read full this story
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