A road-building group that lost out on Tennessee’s toll lane project is challenging the state’s award to a consortium led by a Spain-based company that promised the state a massive amount of money. A group of companies called 24 Choice Lanes Partners says in the filing the Tennessee Department of Transportation gave its competitor an […]

Gov. Bill Lee and Nashville airport folks moved “faster than grease through a goose” this week to stop media questions that dared stray from their Air France announcement.  Blame Davy Crockett for that time-tested idiom. When a Lookout reporter tried to go “off topic” during a press gaggle after Wednesday’s main press conference, an airport […]

The term “one man, one vote” is taking on new meaning in Memphis where, in the haste to fill a vacant seat, a lone member of the Shelby County Democratic Party selected the next state representative for House District 84. You could call it the perfect storm, or you could call it a cluster.  Either […]

Thirty-two years after entering the Tennessee House, Rep. Joe Towns said farewell, resigning his District 84 post following his victory in the Criminal Court Clerk’s race in Memphis where, presumably, he won’t have to fiddle with the state Registry of Election Finance anymore. Towns, an old-school Democrat who does a decent Louis Armstrong impersonation, captured […]

An international bank downgraded the stock for Spanish construction firm Ferrovial, a key player in the DriveTN group that won the bid for Tennessee’s I-24 toll lane project, citing “higher risks” associated with a promised payment to the state that dwarfed competitors’ efforts to win the job. Switzerland-based UBS lowered the company’s stock to “neutral” […]