Eli Motycka

As part of the Williamson Scene sister publication Nashville Scene's cover package on stories to watch for 2026, reporter Eli Motycka took a look at the upcoming statewide midterm elections. You can read the entire Stories to Watch in 2026 cover package h... See more

The Metro Planning Commission’s bimonthly Thursday night meetings are familiar territory for property-use attorneys and real estate developers. They field councilmembers’ bills about zoning changes, property peculiarities, land use questions and infrastru... See more

Republicans avoided a national-stage upset in December when money, attention and hopes flooded into a special-election showdown between progressive Democrat Aftyn Behn and former state official Matt Van Epps, a relatively unknown Republican tasked with su... See more

Austin Peay State University has reinstated Darren Michael and paid out a $500,000 legal settlement nearly four months after firing the theater professor for a post related to the death of conservative activist Charlie Kirk. Administrators abruptly fired ... See more

Memorial Gym lit up on Sunday afternoon when Vanderbilt University took down LSU in a win that defines a new era of women’s basketball on campus. Sophomore Mikayla Blakes’ dominant 32-point, 40-minute performance helped take down the Tigers, who arrived i... See more