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A year after the bombing, the future of Second Avenue is tangled in construction delays despite some progress

Damon Mitchell

December 20, 2021

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Second Avenue between Church and Commerce streets is still a construction site.

Filed Under: Business, WPLN News Tagged With: downtown Nashville, Nashville Christmas blast, preservation, second avenue

The latest numbers on Tennessee’s storms: 23 tornadoes, 5 deaths

Emily Siner

December 17, 2021

A home in Kingston Springs, Tennessee, with a fallen tree in the front yard and damaged windows.

Five people died in the tornadoes on Dec. 10 and 11 in Tennessee, the state’s emergency management agency said Friday. That’s one more than the previous number of lives thought to be lost in the storms.

Filed Under: Environment, WPLN News Tagged With: TEMA, Tennessee Tornadoes

Fatal shooting by Nashville police officer under investigation in Madison

Chas SiskandTony Gonzalez

December 16, 2021

The Metro Nashville Police Department has not yet released the identity of a man who was shot and killed by officers near a park in Madison. The shooting was the 10th by Nashville police in 2021, and the seventh to be fatal.

Filed Under: WPLN News Tagged With: Metro Nashville Police Department, officer involved shooting

Some North Nashville residents can vote on which project should get $2M, but the rules are limiting some ideas

Ambriehl Crutchfield

December 15, 2021

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The city is trying to empower residents to create the rules and process for funding community projects in an area the city has historically neglected.

Filed Under: Metro, Race & Equity, WPLN News Tagged With: Fabian Bedne, North Nashville, participatory budgeting, Sekou Franklin, Whites Creek

A top priority for Tennessee education leaders? Making sure students will be qualified for job openings

Juliana Kim

December 15, 2021

The issue of college and career readiness comes as state officials celebrate the historic year it’s been for job creation, pointing to the new investments with Ford and Oracle. But whether Tennessee’s young people will be qualified to fill those jobs loom over that achievement.

Filed Under: Education, WPLN News Tagged With: SCORE

With rooftop solar panels, Metro Nashville’s latest building makes more energy than it consumes

Paige Pfleger

December 15, 2021

The new Central Administration Building near the Cumberland River generates more energy than it can use on a daily basis, through energy efficiency and renewable energy generation on-site.

Filed Under: Environment

After the latest Nashville police shooting, one family wants changes to officer training

Samantha Max

December 14, 2021

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The ninth shooting by local police this year raises questions about how officers are trained to interact with the rising number of Tennesseans who have guns.

Filed Under: Criminal Justice Tagged With: deadly force, Metro Nashville Police Department, officer involved shooting

Mayfield candle factory workers transported to Vanderbilt trauma center for chemical burns

Blake Farmer

December 13, 2021

National Guard at candle factory
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At least 28 Kentucky storm survivors were transferred to Vanderbilt University Medical Center over the weekend to be treated for serious injuries. Many were from the candle factory that collapsed in Mayfield.

Filed Under: Health Care Tagged With: candle factory, Mayfield, tornado, Vanderbilt University Medical Center

Nashville is one vote away from ending vehicle emissions tests early next year

Caroline Eggers

December 13, 2021

Nashville traffic

In 2018, Tennessee passed a law to eliminate vehicle emission testing. Six counties initially kept their mandates, but now Davidson County is the last to consider ending the long-standing annual requirement.

Filed Under: Environment Tagged With: air pollution, emissions, greenhouse gases

After early-morning tornadoes whipped through parts of Middle Tennessee, residents assessed the damage

Andrea Tudhope, Samantha MaxandDamon Mitchell

December 11, 2021

While the worst of the weather hit neighboring Kentucky, a small town west of Nashville was among the hardest hit by Saturday morning’s severe storms and tornadoes in Middle Tennessee.

Filed Under: WPLN News Tagged With: Cheatham County, Dickson County, severe weather, Tennessee Tornadoes

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