Mayor Dean Digs in Heals with Chamber Help

Mayor Karl Dean keeps on with his insistence that the Tennessee State Fairgrounds needs to be redeveloped to have development ready land so companies can move into Nashville.

There is plenty of other land around to be developmed. Private land, which with even tax incentives, wouldn't cost taxpayers as much. Then the Nashville chamber chimes in, giving the message that we need development ready land and is supporting the mayor in wasting our taxpayer dollars on this fantastical adventure.

That's amazing because of all of the Republicans

Dean's Cronies Continue to Work

S-Town Mike outlines how Mayor Karl Dean's Metro Council cronies continue to work. None of them seem to understand they are being utter elitists who are bowing to people in the area who think they are going to get Hillsboro Village in a flash with help from mythical corporate relocations.

Fairgrounds destruction isn't dead yet

Mayor Karl Dean may have thought he could put killing the fairgrounds off for a year will work but he is very mistaken.

Mayor Dean has lost race fans no matter if they regularly attended races or not. He may have silenced one group for the time being, but he still must hear from angry, loud supporters of the speedway. And if he ever wanted to run for a statewide office,

Mayor Dean's Passive-Aggressive Leadership

Mayor Karl Dean once again exhibits how he leads or, really, how he doesn't. This morning's City Paper quotes his spokesperson saying the mayor is leaving the decision of where to move the Tennessee State Fair up to the nonprofit Tennessee State Fair Association.

So the Mayor Dean dumps the fair to pursue some mythical redevelopment of the Tennessee State Fairgrounds with no

Metro Finance Chief's role in trying to kill the fairgrounds

Metro Finance Chief Richard Riebeling wants to be right. Stephen George of the City Paper lowered the boom on Riebeling's long quest to redevelop the Tennessee State Fairgrounds.

Now that Riebeling is Mayor Karl Dean's crony, he pushed a plan to close the fairgrounds that he'd hatched under former Mayor Bill Purcell as chairman of the Fair Board. Riebeling has more power as director of the Metro Finance Department and the ever conflicted James Weaver, as chairman of the fair board, has his back.

Fairgrounds Won't Help Nashville Compete with Williamson County

When the task force Mayor Karl Dean created to "study" the fairgrounds, part of the discussion was having  spots in Nashville that could compete with Williamson County.

Dean's cronies and lapdogs say the Tennessee State Fairgrounds is the ticket. They are wrong. At best the fairgrounds would attract a call center or maybe a company in the industrial sector. But a corporate headquarters of the kind that choose Franklin?

Dean's $28 Million Plus Spending Folly

Mayor Karl Dean wants to spend about $28 million over the next 15 years on moving the fairgrounds to Hickory Hollow Mall. That's the cost of leases and fixing up the space there for the flea market and other functions.

It doesn't include the city's cost