Nashville Mayor Freddie O’Connell has filed his $554 million capital spending plan for next year, and it includes large investments in schools and transportation.
What Where When-sday: International Black Film Festival
As the Nashville Film Festival wraps up, there’s another film fest for movie buffs. The International Black Film Festival runs Sep 30 through Oct 4 at venues across town.
Christa Pike’s influence from Tennessee’s death row
Most of the world never got to meet Colleen Slemmer because Christa Pike killed her in 1995. Colleen was only 19 at the time. Christa was 18. As described by the people who loved her, Slemmer was kind, playful, trusting, easygoing, generous and smart. This month, she’d be 51 years old. She didn’t get to […]
Nashvillager Podcast: The state of the station
How is Nashville Public Radio doing these days? Plus, the local news for September 30, 2026
‘It’s humiliating:’ Nashville Symphony members react to furloughs
Symphony musicians in Nashville have been put out of a job this week with almost no notice — and they’re reeling.
After failed execution, health workers say Tennessee’s rules flout medical ethics
As another death row inmate’s execution arrives, doctors and nurses in Tennessee say they want medical professionals removed from the execution process.
US Supreme Court allows Christa Pike’s execution in Tennessee to go forward
Tennessee’s execution of Christa Gail Pike for a murder she committed at age 18 was halted Wednesday about an hour before it was set to begin, as a federal appeals court sought to review whether her allegations of childhood sexual abuse and rape were fully considered at her sentencing.
Nashville Democrat sues for GOP ‘retaliation’ to redistricting protest
A Nashville state senator is suing the GOP leadership that sanctioned her for protesting redistricting.
Trump can’t force election changes by blocking counterterrorism funds to states, judge says
A federal judge is blocking the authority of President Donald Trump’s administration to withhold some federal counterterrorism funding from states that don’t meet its election administration demands.
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