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RE: Herrington writes that taxpayers paying for LB improvements is "bad"
(05-10-2018 01:24 PM)dan o Wrote:  
(05-10-2018 11:15 AM)FlyingTiger2016 Wrote:  
(05-10-2018 11:09 AM)Unbreakable04 Wrote:  Herrington should stick to the Grizzlies, which is the only thing he writes about that is intriguing.

I love the "transit plan" suggestion that it perpetuates growth. Nashville seems to sure be booming without a mass transit plan previously in place... waste $9 billion on a transit plan - the government always knows how to spend that much money in the best way possible (kidding). Then complain about $2.5M for an upgrade in the LB which generates revenue due to its one main tenant, for the city, and even though the LB operates "at a loss" just think about the albatross it would become if it did not make those same improvements (I like the Legion Field reference). Guess Tiger Lane was a waste of taxpayer money as well. Glad he is in journalism and not business.

They got 840 built on the south side. And they have two major interstates in 24 and 55. Then the huge cooperate tax breaks. I still think Shelby County pays more than Davidson, but of course Logistic companies are taxed at a higher rate than health care. That makes sense.

The federal government spent quite a bit on Nashville. Don't get confused.

You probably meant 24 and 40

And forgot 65.
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(05-10-2018 12:16 PM)3601 Wrote:  
(05-10-2018 11:41 AM)salukiblue Wrote:  
(05-10-2018 11:36 AM)Unbreakable04 Wrote:  
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(05-10-2018 11:09 AM)Unbreakable04 Wrote:  Herrington should stick to the Grizzlies, which is the only thing he writes about that is intriguing.

I love the "transit plan" suggestion that it perpetuates growth. Nashville seems to sure be booming without a mass transit plan previously in place... waste $9 billion on a transit plan - the government always knows how to spend that much money in the best way possible (kidding). Then complain about $2.5M for an upgrade in the LB which generates revenue due to its one main tenant, for the city, and even though the LB operates "at a loss" just think about the albatross it would become if it did not make those same improvements (I like the Legion Field reference). Guess Tiger Lane was a waste of taxpayer money as well. Glad he is in journalism and not business.

Nashville WILL suffer if they don't get a real transit plan going.

If that's what suffering looks like, then please let Memphis suffer like Nashville.

I said, "will" not "are."

At some point the economics of living IN Nashville will be difficult more middle class folks. So they move to the burbs for cheaper living but the commute back to the job (in Nashville) becomes more and more ridiculous each day. And there is no way to improve (via widening/adding more highways) so traffic becomes more unbearable and people say, "I'll move somewhere else where I don't have a two hour commute each way."

Time will tell.

So you think the traffic issue will lead to a population decline in Metro Nashville?

Ahhhh, government ruled & regulated mass transit, the solution to any city's (hypothetical) problems - maybe they should put that on a billboard
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RE: Herrington writes that taxpayers paying for LB improvements is "bad"
(05-10-2018 11:15 AM)FlyingTiger2016 Wrote:  
(05-10-2018 11:09 AM)Unbreakable04 Wrote:  Herrington should stick to the Grizzlies, which is the only thing he writes about that is intriguing.

I love the "transit plan" suggestion that it perpetuates growth. Nashville seems to sure be booming without a mass transit plan previously in place... waste $9 billion on a transit plan - the government always knows how to spend that much money in the best way possible (kidding). Then complain about $2.5M for an upgrade in the LB which generates revenue due to its one main tenant, for the city, and even though the LB operates "at a loss" just think about the albatross it would become if it did not make those same improvements (I like the Legion Field reference). Guess Tiger Lane was a waste of taxpayer money as well. Glad he is in journalism and not business.

They got 840 built on the south side. And they have two major interstates in 24 and 55. Then the huge cooperate tax breaks. I still think Shelby County pays more than Davidson, but of course Logistic companies are taxed at a higher rate than health care. That makes sense.

The federal government spent quite a bit on Nashville. Don't get confused.

The fed g'ment did spend a lot of $$$ in Nashville because it became a refugee resettlement city.

As Nashville's immigrant population grows, Metro public schools are straining at the seams
ANDREA ZELINSKI OCT 16, 2014 4 AM

Quote:Nashville has been an It City for immigrants since the late 1970s and '80s, when the federal government began to settle refugees here. According to Remziya Suleyman — director of policy at the Muslim advocacy nonprofit American Center for Outreach, and herself a long-ago survivor of Kurdish refugee camps — refugee placement began in earnest here in the 1970s with Laotian settlements. Kurdish, Somali and Sudanese immigrants followed in the '90s.

Quote:Decades later, that trend continues. Today the Volunteer State accepts some 1,000 refugees a year, a fact that contributes to Nashville having one of the largest Kurdish communities outside the Middle East.

I'm trying to find the article I read which stated that between 2000 and 2016 immigrants made up 3 out of 5 (60%) of all new residents in Nashville. They had (or have) a program called Welcome Nashville.

Remember the big debate in Murfreesboro about the mosque?

Haslam at one point during his tenure mentioned extending the Nashville resettlement program to the rest of the state. That got shot down pretty quick.
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Must be cool to host a game 7 tonight and the NFL draft next spring

http://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/23462...-nfl-draft
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Memphis isn't the only team that uses the Liberty Bowl. SHC, Liberty Bowl, and now a new pro team, maybe the XFL too. The city should pay to keep up it's city property. Harrington is wrong and short sighted.
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(05-10-2018 11:17 AM)FlyingTiger2016 Wrote:  
(05-10-2018 11:11 AM)salukiblue Wrote:  
(05-10-2018 11:09 AM)Unbreakable04 Wrote:  Herrington should stick to the Grizzlies, which is the only thing he writes about that is intriguing.

I love the "transit plan" suggestion that it perpetuates growth. Nashville seems to sure be booming without a mass transit plan previously in place... waste $9 billion on a transit plan - the government always knows how to spend that much money in the best way possible (kidding). Then complain about $2.5M for an upgrade in the LB which generates revenue due to its one main tenant, for the city, and even though the LB operates "at a loss" just think about the albatross it would become if it did not make those same improvements (I like the Legion Field reference). Guess Tiger Lane was a waste of taxpayer money as well. Glad he is in journalism and not business.

Nashville WILL suffer if they don't get a real transit plan going.

It's still better than up North.

Honestly, if you compared Nashville to it's peers in Raleigh and Atlanta their growth isn't that impressive for a state capital in a sun belt state.

Atlanta is a peer of Nashville ? lol.
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(05-10-2018 03:17 PM)MemphisTigerPawr Wrote:  Memphis isn't the only team that uses the Liberty Bowl. SHC, Liberty Bowl, and now a new pro team, maybe the XFL too. The city should pay to keep up it's city property. Harrington is wrong and short sighted.

It's why Memphis is Memphis.
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Sounds as if slick willie is doing some early campaigning in his possible run for office again. Has it been determined if this money came from the general fund or from the tourism zone money?
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(05-10-2018 03:42 PM)ncrdbl1 Wrote:  Sounds as if slick willie is doing some early campaigning in his possible run for office again. Has it been determined if this money came from the general fund or from the tourism zone money?

different herrington
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(05-10-2018 03:35 PM)midtowncowboy Wrote:  
(05-10-2018 11:17 AM)FlyingTiger2016 Wrote:  
(05-10-2018 11:11 AM)salukiblue Wrote:  
(05-10-2018 11:09 AM)Unbreakable04 Wrote:  Herrington should stick to the Grizzlies, which is the only thing he writes about that is intriguing.

I love the "transit plan" suggestion that it perpetuates growth. Nashville seems to sure be booming without a mass transit plan previously in place... waste $9 billion on a transit plan - the government always knows how to spend that much money in the best way possible (kidding). Then complain about $2.5M for an upgrade in the LB which generates revenue due to its one main tenant, for the city, and even though the LB operates "at a loss" just think about the albatross it would become if it did not make those same improvements (I like the Legion Field reference). Guess Tiger Lane was a waste of taxpayer money as well. Glad he is in journalism and not business.

Nashville WILL suffer if they don't get a real transit plan going.

It's still better than up North.

Honestly, if you compared Nashville to it's peers in Raleigh and Atlanta their growth isn't that impressive for a state capital in a sun belt state.

Atlanta is a peer of Nashville ? lol.

Yes, State capital in a sun belt state. They are under-performing in that classification.
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(05-10-2018 03:42 PM)ncrdbl1 Wrote:  Sounds as if slick willie is doing some early campaigning in his possible run for office again. Has it been determined if this money came from the general fund or from the tourism zone money?

Nascar guy, you've got to be kidding.
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(05-10-2018 04:17 PM)Tigx Wrote:  
(05-10-2018 03:42 PM)ncrdbl1 Wrote:  Sounds as if slick willie is doing some early campaigning in his possible run for office again. Has it been determined if this money came from the general fund or from the tourism zone money?

Nascar guy, you've got to be kidding.

Slick Willie lookin a little pale to me. LOL
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I’d rather fund liberty bowl upgrades than his failing charter schools.
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lots of wow in this thread
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(05-10-2018 11:15 AM)FlyingTiger2016 Wrote:  
(05-10-2018 11:09 AM)Unbreakable04 Wrote:  Herrington should stick to the Grizzlies, which is the only thing he writes about that is intriguing.

I love the "transit plan" suggestion that it perpetuates growth. Nashville seems to sure be booming without a mass transit plan previously in place... waste $9 billion on a transit plan - the government always knows how to spend that much money in the best way possible (kidding). Then complain about $2.5M for an upgrade in the LB which generates revenue due to its one main tenant, for the city, and even though the LB operates "at a loss" just think about the albatross it would become if it did not make those same improvements (I like the Legion Field reference). Guess Tiger Lane was a waste of taxpayer money as well. Glad he is in journalism and not business.

They got 840 built on the south side. And they have two major interstates in 24 and 55. Then the huge cooperate tax breaks. I still think Shelby County pays more than Davidson, but of course Logistic companies are taxed at a higher rate than health care. That makes sense.

The federal government spent quite a bit on Nashville. Don't get confused.

840 is not a Nashville transit factor. Doesn't help commuters any at all.
55 does not go through Nashville - but 40 and 65 do.
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For those who didn't bother to read. The comments and quotes are from the CA writer Chris Herrington. I s'pose he is often unfortunately mistaken for King Willie Herenton. But King didn't have anything to do with this.
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(05-10-2018 11:17 AM)FlyingTiger2016 Wrote:  
(05-10-2018 11:11 AM)salukiblue Wrote:  
(05-10-2018 11:09 AM)Unbreakable04 Wrote:  Herrington should stick to the Grizzlies, which is the only thing he writes about that is intriguing.

I love the "transit plan" suggestion that it perpetuates growth. Nashville seems to sure be booming without a mass transit plan previously in place... waste $9 billion on a transit plan - the government always knows how to spend that much money in the best way possible (kidding). Then complain about $2.5M for an upgrade in the LB which generates revenue due to its one main tenant, for the city, and even though the LB operates "at a loss" just think about the albatross it would become if it did not make those same improvements (I like the Legion Field reference). Guess Tiger Lane was a waste of taxpayer money as well. Glad he is in journalism and not business.

Nashville WILL suffer if they don't get a real transit plan going.

It's still better than up North.

Honestly, if you compared Nashville to it's peers in Raleigh and Atlanta their growth isn't that impressive for a state capital in a sun belt state.

Nashville is growing faster than Raleigh and much faster than Atlanta.
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(05-10-2018 11:11 AM)salukiblue Wrote:  
(05-10-2018 11:09 AM)Unbreakable04 Wrote:  Herrington should stick to the Grizzlies, which is the only thing he writes about that is intriguing.

I love the "transit plan" suggestion that it perpetuates growth. Nashville seems to sure be booming without a mass transit plan previously in place... waste $9 billion on a transit plan - the government always knows how to spend that much money in the best way possible (kidding). Then complain about $2.5M for an upgrade in the LB which generates revenue due to its one main tenant, for the city, and even though the LB operates "at a loss" just think about the albatross it would become if it did not make those same improvements (I like the Legion Field reference). Guess Tiger Lane was a waste of taxpayer money as well. Glad he is in journalism and not business.

Nashville WILL suffer if they don't get a real transit plan going.

We are a decade away from self-driving cars. They will kill lite rail. Lite rail cannot compete with thousands of smart cars driving cooperatively. Those right of ways could be used to run the cars, but building rail at this point is just short-sighted.
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(05-10-2018 05:38 PM)Tiger87 Wrote:  
(05-10-2018 11:17 AM)FlyingTiger2016 Wrote:  
(05-10-2018 11:11 AM)salukiblue Wrote:  
(05-10-2018 11:09 AM)Unbreakable04 Wrote:  Herrington should stick to the Grizzlies, which is the only thing he writes about that is intriguing.

I love the "transit plan" suggestion that it perpetuates growth. Nashville seems to sure be booming without a mass transit plan previously in place... waste $9 billion on a transit plan - the government always knows how to spend that much money in the best way possible (kidding). Then complain about $2.5M for an upgrade in the LB which generates revenue due to its one main tenant, for the city, and even though the LB operates "at a loss" just think about the albatross it would become if it did not make those same improvements (I like the Legion Field reference). Guess Tiger Lane was a waste of taxpayer money as well. Glad he is in journalism and not business.

Nashville WILL suffer if they don't get a real transit plan going.

It's still better than up North.

Honestly, if you compared Nashville to it's peers in Raleigh and Atlanta their growth isn't that impressive for a state capital in a sun belt state.

Nashville is growing faster than Raleigh and much faster than Atlanta.

It just got a later start than Atlanta or the Research Triangle. If the comparison is Southern State Capitals, Nashville is doing much, much, much better than Tallahassee, Columbia, Montgomery, Jackson, Baton Rogue, and Little Rock.
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(05-10-2018 10:27 AM)Tiger1983 Wrote:  The “issue” could be resolved with an on-campus stadium if the City does not do its part to meet the minimum needs of its primary tenant.

Yep
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