Tag Archives: non-discrimination ordinance
Happy Hour: Feel Good Friday
Mayor Dean signed the controversial non-discrimination ordinance today expressly banning Metro from discriminating against its employees based on sexual orientation or gender identity. [Out & About]
The Metro Planning Commission will decide in two weeks whether or not the “second downtown” Bells Bend development project will get one final shot at succeeding before the commission. [WSMV]
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Bright & Early: Discriminate Not Edition
Good morning, Nashville. The controversial non-discrimination measure passed Metro Council last night with a majority vote of 24 in favor, 15 against and one absent. The bill protects Nashville city workers from discrimination based on sexual orientation or gender identity. Meanwhile, staffers on Capitol Hill sat through five hours of mandatory diversity training yesterday to [...]
Bright & Early: On The Agenda Edition
Good morning, Nashville. The Metro Council meeting got a little heated last night as several controversial issues came to a vote. After an emotional debate, the non-discrimination ordinance passed it’s second reading. The council was split evenly down the middle on the issue of guns in parks, forcing Vice Mayor Diane Neighbors to cast the [...]
Bright & Early: Drama-Rama Edition
Good morning, Nashville. The drama over the convention center and the $450,000 in PR spending escalated at last night’s Metro Council meeting. Councilman Mike Jameson got up at the beginning of the meeting during the time traditionally set aside for minor announcements and delivered a scathing speech which, among other things, accused PR firm McNeely [...]
Bright & Early: Hate To Say We Told You So Edition
Good morning, Nashville. It’s been almost a month since the texting while driving ban went into effect, and so far we’re hearing two things: Not many citations have been issued and law enforcement officers have no idea how to enforce it. Sheriff’s deputies in Montgomery County are particularly confused about how they’re supposed to tell [...]
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