🍂 Why you should ditch the rake

🥂 Considering a Booze-Free Holiday Season?

With endless holiday parties around the corner, we’re revisiting our conversation with Stephanie Styll, founder of local booze-free beverage shop Killjoy, to talk about Nashville’s growing sober-curious community and the rise of NA beverages. [🎧 City Cast Nashville]

⚒️ Nashville Rock Challenges Boring Company

In order to cut through our problematic limestone bedrock for their proposed Tesla tunnels to BNA, the Boring Company will debut its first “hard-rock” boring machine, a specialty tool created for the project. Previous Boring Co. tunnels were built in soft soil areas. [The Tennessean 🔒]

• ICYMI: Here’s everything you need to know about the Tesla tunnels. [🎧 City Cast Nashville]

🗳️ Rep. Hemmer Won’t Seek Reelection

District 59 State Rep. Caleb Hemmer has decided not to run for another term in 2026, saying he plans to spend more time with his family and meet other work commitments. The Democrat served southern Davidson County for two terms, and passed bills dealing with maternal health and affordable housing. [Tennessee Lookout]

🏡 Social Worker Resigns Over Contentious Housing Program

A case manager with Step Up, a support services provider that partners with Metro’s Office of Homeless Services, has resigned rather than continue working within OHS’s “Non-Traditional Rapid Rehousing” program, which was recently revealed to have left several families facing eviction notices. In their resignation, the case manager said that OHS’s expectations “no longer align with the values and principles of social work.” [{Rich Text} 🔒]

• How OHS’s “Non-Traditional Rapid Rehousing” strategy failed families [🎧 City Cast Nashville]