Loud Music is a $40 Fine

Well, the Fair Board met today, and, get this: they decided to put out RFI’s for someone to lease the track! From what I gather, whoever leases the track will have it on weekends. The Fair Board can do whatever they want on the property during the week. Proposals are due by the 16th, review [...]

Supposedly there’s a Fair Board meeting tomorrow (Tuesday, January 6, 2009). But the Fair web site doesn’t yet have an agenda posted. As I mentioned earlier, one would almost get the impression that they don’t want the public to know when they’re meeting.

Larry Woody, in an article published on the Nashville City Paper’s web site, says the Fairgrounds track is on life support, and the plug may about to be pulled. Woody lays the blame on several entities: City Hall (via the Fair Board), the economy, and race fans. I’d add one more group to that list: [...]

Bobby Hamilton Racing is no more. The team, run by Hamilton’s widow, closed up shop last week. I guess the reason was lack of sponsorship. Without Hamilton running the operation, I’d suspect that sponsors weren’t exactly breaking the doors down. One also has to wonder about the management. You had to know something was up [...]