Civic reckonings for a city that keeps growing and keeps forgetting.
Still Nashville is a civic journalism series documenting how Nashville's institutions shape — and sometimes fail — the people and neighborhoods they serve. Each installment is a reckoning: sourced, structured, and written in good faith.
A civic framework proposing structured accountability for Vanderbilt University's tax-exempt footprint in Nashville — grounded in property data, PILOT precedent, and the history of institutional expansion in North Nashville.
Pre-publicationStill Nashville is not a newspaper. It is not a blog. It is a series of documented civic arguments — each one researched to primary-source standard, each one published with a full evidence record. The name is the premise: Nashville is still here. The people who built it are still here. The institutions that benefited from it owe something back.
Every claim is sourced. Every number is verified. Every argument is made in good faith and published in full view.