
Stephen Elliott
Reporter at Nashville Banner
Reporter @nashvillebanner | Formerly of Nashville Post, Nashville Scene and Telluride Daily Planet | [email protected] | stephen.81 on Signal
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1 week ago |
nashvillebanner.com | Stephen Elliott
Some attentive Nashvillians were taken by surprise this week when they checked their property values on the county’s Parcel Viewer site. Though results of the quadrennial countywide property reappraisal process have not been formally released, new values were showing up online with significant but mostly expected increases registered for residential and commercial properties.
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1 week ago |
nashvillebanner.com | Stephen Elliott
Metro Council’s relatively brief Tuesday meeting resulted in a grab bag of items. The council approved the $2.1 million purchase of property on 28th Avenue North for a new Hadley Park library branch, funding for which was included in Mayor Freddie O’Connell’s late-2024 capital spending plan. The resolution was approved as part of the consent agenda, meaning there was no discussion.
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1 week ago |
nashvillebanner.com | Stephen Elliott
The Metro Council meets on Tuesday night. Be prepared with our rundown of the agenda:RS2025-1142: This resolution would approve an intergovernmental agreement between Metro and the East Bank Development Authority. The document would govern the work the newly established authority is overseeing on the East Bank. The sponsor is seeking a one-meeting deferral. RS2025-1147: In 2019, the Metro Council conveyed 15 surplus parcels to The Housing Fund for the Nashville Community Land Trust.
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1 week ago |
nashvillebanner.com | Stephen Elliott
Opinions are mixed among residents of Old Tent City, a long-term encampment along the Cumberland River near downtown that Metro officials announced they would clear out. Jeffery Adams, who has lived at the camp for two years on and off, said he has been robbed and found dead bodies while living there. “It sucks, and I’m ready to go,” he told the Banner.
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2 weeks ago |
nashvillescene.com | Stephen Elliott |Nashville Banner
The decades-old Southern Festival of Books, an anchor of Nashville’s literary community, is among the potential victims of the latest round of cuts proposed by President Donald Trump and the Elon Musk-led Department of Government Efficiency.
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