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You asked, we answered: Your guide to Nashville’s 2024 transit referendum

WPLN solicited questions from listeners about Nashville's upcoming transit referendum. We're back with answers on everything from zoning laws to airport connectivity to traffic signals.

NashVillager Podcast: Nobel winners with Nashville connections

Why did the latest Nobel Prize announcements give Vanderbilt University reason to celebrate? Plus the local news for October 14, 2024.

Tennessee fines the largest private prison operator millions for understaffing

The state has withheld over $29 million from CoreCivic for violating Tennessee standards for prison operation.

Wetlands lessen floods. Tennessee lawmakers plan to erode the regulations that protect them.

State lawmakers proposed a bill to remove protections on more than half of Tennessee’s wetlands. That bill was defeated, but another could be coming. 

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Landslides crushed roads and structures after Helene. Geologists have mapped more than 500.

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Education

NashVillager Podcast: Schools and the lawmakers that want to change them

Tennessee’s kindergarten vaccination rate is slipping, as more parents opt out of shots or get them late

A teenage boy wearing a t-shirt, glasses and headphones smiles and gives two thumbs up. He sits in front of an orange microphone in a radio studio.

This Brentwood teen’s science video landed a spot in a worldwide competition

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As Vanderbilt grad students approach a union vote, administrators stress alternatives

Politics

Tennessee fines the largest private prison operator millions for understaffing

NashVillager Podcast: Nullification redux

Tennessee elections aren’t competitive. That’s not the only reason voter turnout is so low.

Tennessee’s latest voting regulations spark debate about election integrity and ballot access

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Criminal Justice

Tennessee fines the largest private prison operator millions for understaffing

1 dead, 9 injured after an exchange of gunfire near TSU homecoming

NashVillager Podcast: Where victims of abuse can turn

Tennessee corrections chief says new process for executing inmates will be completed by end of year

Environment

Wetlands lessen floods. Tennessee lawmakers plan to erode the regulations that protect them.

Reporter’s notebook: What it’s like witnessing the aftermath of flooding in East Tennessee

Landslides crushed roads and structures after Helene. Geologists have mapped more than 500.

Tennessee’s ‘high hazard’ dams lack current emergency plans, flood mapping

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