Metropolitik: Decisions about what information to release after deadly incidents may soon be out of the department’s hands

John Cooper has a problem.

The Centers for Disease Control’s guidance for elected officials seems obvious now that we’ve all taken a crash course in life during a pandemic: “Encourage voters to use voting methods that minimize direct contact with other people and reduce crowd size at polling stations.”

With one month left until Nashville SC’s inaugural season starts, one giant question has dominated most fans’ minds: When will they break ground on the new stadium?

Mayor David Briley gives the State of Metro Address on April 30Photo: Michael W. Bunch / Metro photographer

James Shaw Jr. shouldn’t have to be a hero.

The most visible opponents to the city’s transit initiative want you to take a microscope to Nashville’s light-rail plan — but not to their finances.

Metro is knee-deep in something stupid right now.

The bullet-riddled bodies had only just been removed from an American schoolhouse when Tennessee legislators started calling for teachers to add pistols alongside pencils on their list of school supplies. The only way to stop a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun, they argued. And if…

Mayor Megan Barry attends a Donelson-Hermitage Chamber of Commerce meeting to discuss transitPhoto: Michael W. Bunch, Metro Photographer

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Megan Barry has spent the past decade in public life, and for most of that time her political persona has been defined by the tension between her resilient progressive reputation and her more cautious, moderate record. Those attracted by the former, it seems, are destined to be frustrated by…

A particular section of the Metro Nashville Charter, cited with renewed interest around the Metro Courthouse in recent days, concerns what one might call the chain of command.

In recent years, as cities around the country occasionally erupted after fatal police shootings of black men, Nashville officials could often be heard prefacing their contributions to the national conversation by noting that, fortunately, such ugliness had not been visited upon our fair city…

For more than a year, we’ve watched District Attorney Glenn Funk pursue a defamation case against Phil Williams, reporter for WTVF-TV, NewsChannel 5.

The circus came back to town this week, as the 110th General Assembly gaveled into session on Tuesday. Pay no attention to the shiny new stuff — a new lieutenant governor, changing GOP roles in the House, a spate of high-profile players starting to jockey for the governor’s race next year. T…

Who you gonna believe? Me, or your lying eyes?

The swastika was unmistakable.

Embed from Getty Images At a Metro Council meeting earlier this month, At-Large Councilman John Cooper rose to speak on a bill approving a land deal needed to move ahead with the much-debated $18 million Gulch pedestrian bridge. He asked that he be recorded as a “no” vote, and he explained why.

Three weeks ago, District Attorney Glenn Funk spent the day in a Williamson County courthouse as part of a case involving David Chase, a man attacking him in Nashville in a separate lawsuit related to the fallout from a 2014 domestic abuse case. Strange to see? Sure. But the two have a commo…

Here’s the ridiculous situation we’re left with: A company worth half-a-trillion dollars is seeking relief from the Metro Council to string high-speed internet lines because companies worth $240 billion and $150 billion, respectively, have dug in their heels.

State correction officials and private prison executives are forever fogging the air with euphemism, so best to start bluntly: Tennessee should end its relationship with the for-profit prison industry, because it is a moral nightmare and a practical failure.