By J. Holly McCall | Editor-in-Chief
The Tennessee Titans, the Nashville-based franchise of the National Football League, is typically a uniting force among Volunteer State sports fans, if only so fans can complain about the team’s poor play, propensity for ditching star players and coaching turnover.
But what of the expected vote today by NFL owners on holding the 2030 Super Bowl in Nashvegas, in the Titans new and improved $2.1 billion stadium?
State Republican lawmakers, many of whom voted to spend $500 million of state money to prop up the new stadium, told Senior Reporter Sam Stockard they are pretty excited and surely having an event like this will put Nashville on the tourism map. (Pretty sure many Nashville residents think the city is already a little too much on the tourism map.)
Rep. Aftyn Behn, a Nashville Democrat who has not been shy about expressing her thoughts on the stadium's expense, weighed in with a less favorable opinion on the disconnect between folks who can afford pricey Super Bowl tickets and the rest of us working class schmucks.
And in other news, Senior Reporter Anita Wadhwani has the latest on the pack of lawsuits filed in an effort to halt new, GOP-drawn congressional maps from taking effect before the August 6 primary.
THE LOOKOUT’S TOP STORY
by Sam Stockard
National Football League owners are reportedly set to vote Tuesday to hold Super Bowl LXIV at the Titans’ $2.1 billion stadium under construction in Nashville.
NEWS AND NOTES
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FEATURED ON THE LOOKOUT
State Sen. London Lamar, a Memphis Democrat, holds a photo of the new U.S. House map passed by Tennessee Republicans and being challenged in multiple lawsuits. (Photo: John Partipilo/Tennessee Lookout
by Anita Wadhwani
A federal judge has ordered a legal challenge to Tennessee’s redrawn congressional districts — brought by the ACLU on behalf of voters, clergy and nonprofits in Memphis — be consolidated with two other challenges, at the request of the state attorneys defending the maps.
Once, Tennesseans sent people like Cordell Hull to Washington. President Franklin D. Roosevelt tapped Hull to serve as his Secretary of State where his actions earned him a Nobel Prize. (Photo: Getty Images)
COMMENTARY
by Ren Brabenec
As Tennesseans struggle to afford wartime prices on gas and everything else, now is a good time to reflect on the politicians we used to send to Washington, and who we might send this time around.
ICYMI
Election officials move quickly to adjust districts for August primary in Tennessee | Cassandra Stephenson
Who’s running in Tennessee’s new 2026 U.S. Congress races | Adam Friedman
COMMENTARY
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