TBA Law Blog


Posted by: Amelia Ferrell Knisely on Oct 12, 2015

Former Nashville mayor Karl Dean’s plan to build a "trackless trolly" line to connect the city’s east and west areas failed when outside money and interests came into play, the Boston Globe reports. What started as a local transportation project, the newspaper says in its Divided Nation series, turned into a bare-knuckle city-versus-state fight at a time when the partisan divide between big cities — mostly run by Democrats — and state capitals, where the GOP largely holds sway, has reached a historic extreme.