Stephen Yeargin

Tonight Metro Nashville Public Schools presented a plan to drastically alter the current clusters – that is, elementary and middle schools that feed into larger high schools – to better utilize space and resources. As an alumnus of an MNPS school, my eyes wandered directly to a particular section of the story.
Several changes were proposed [...]

Ran in The Tennessean:
Nashville needs to keep the Predators
We need a principal tenant for the Sommet Center, and keeping the Predators is a far better option than finding a replacement. Paying for a dark arena is like owning a sports car but never putting tires on it or gas in it. Depending on whom you [...]

The Tennessee Legislature earlier this year passed a bill that ended the ritual of servers asking “Smoking or Non-Smoking?” when entering a restaurant. While many jumped on board when the law went into effect June 1 with other laws, some establishments waited it out until the late hours of September 30 before finally asking patrons [...]

A few years ago, I remember reading a lot about the housing market was wildly inflated. That is to say, a house that would have sold for $60,000 a decade ago now lists for almost double that today. “Real estate investor” became a full time job for many, buying houses, making minor cosmetic changes and [...]

Mayor
I am rather pleasantly surprised that Karl Dean won the close race for Nashville’s next mayor tonight. Whether it was Bob Clement’s attack ads over property taxes or his pledge to seek the Summer Olympics Games for Nashville, his campaign met a brick wall tonight.
Dean, a relative unknown in the Nashville political scene jumped into [...]

Today we cast votes in the run-off election for Mayor and Council at Large in Metropolitan Nashville-Davidson County during early voting. Voting early (and as often as allowed by law) seems to be the best strategy to mesh our civic duty with our hectic lives. While I typically keep my vote to myself, I do [...]

Samantha and I went to Green Hills last night to see Sicko, the latest documentary by filmmaker Michael Moore. Many of the people portrayed in the film sounded hauntingly familiar. I have friends and former coworkers who either could not afford or did not wish to pay for health insurance. Some have already seen the [...]

I spent a good while talking with a former “reliable source” back from the college newspaper days a few nights ago, traversing some of the highs and lows of the ever changing political climate. Most of the more impassioned battles of that particular time seem almost trivial now, even though it would be a stretch [...]

I will begin by simply saying that I am not an informed voter for local politics. To a fair degree, I would wager that most Nashville residents fall into the same category. Because I work with Web and print design, I tend to gravitate more to the campaigns that have the better yard signs and [...]

A special panel has recommended dropping the minimum grade-point average college students must maintain to keep their state lottery scholarships, but the idea is drawing mixed reviews from Tennessee lawmakers.