Sunday, November 28, 2010

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.

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