After input from North Nashville residents, councilmembers are asking the city’s COVID-19 financial oversight committee to funnel $70 million toward minority businesses.
The Omicron variant arrives in Nashville, but Delta is still the local COVID concern
A Nashville resident who recently returned from South Africa has been confirmed as the city’s first confirmed patient with the COVID Omicron variant. The Metro Public Health Department says the patient was vaccinated and boosted, and experienced mild symptoms.
Vanderbilt gets the go-ahead to build a hospital in Murfreesboro, despite no current need for additional beds
The $144 million facility passed the Health Services and Development Agency on Wednesday by a vote of 5-1.
Tennessee’s Senate releases redistricting proposals, but hasn’t put out its own
Lawmakers previewed congressional and state Senate maps proposed by the public Tuesday morning, one of the steps they’ve decided to take before presenting their own maps in January. Nine plans were shown, but the hourlong presentation may not be that meaningful.
Why Meharry decided to put COVID stimulus money into students’ pockets
Just before students at Meharry Medical College went home for Thanksgiving, Dr. James Hildreth, the school’s president, emailed them a video message that he acknowledged seemed hard to believe. Or, at least, they would have to give it a second listen.
New historical marker honors one of Nashville’s first female doctors
The Metro Historical Commission voted unanimously Monday to approve a new marker in honor of Dr. Josie Wells. It will be placed outside Nashville General Hospital.
Why a small team of citizen weather reporters have gained the trust of thousands in Nashville
When Hermitage resident Vesia Hawkins woke up at 1:30 a.m. Saturday, she opened Twitter and started following along with an account that had kept her company during storms past. @NashSevereWx, run by three men for whom weather is a passion but not a full-time job, has now been sharing tweet-sized weather updates for more than […]
Tennessee state senators to consider redistricting proposals
Federal law requires that legislative maps disperse population evenly after every census. State legislators must vote on the final plan during the upcoming session.
At least 70 killed in tornadoes in central U.S.; Biden declares emergency in Kentucky
A severe storm system caused scores of deaths and injuries and significant damage at a Kentucky candle factory, an Amazon facility in Illinois, a nursing home in Arkansas and many homes and buildings.
Myth-busting: No, there’s not evidence that Gwen Shamblin faked her death
Conspiracy theories are bubbling up again about the death of Gwen Shamblin, who ran the Remnant Fellowship Church in Brentwood, following an iHeartRadio show hosts’ theories being broadcast this week that Shamblin may have faked her death.
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