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It Doesn’t Look Like Metro Police Will Get Their 3% Raise

It Doesn’t Look Like Metro Police Will Get Their 3% Raise

Blake Farmer

June 17, 2014

The Fraternal Order of Police has even been running TV ads to make its case, but the council hasn’t gotten behind the across-the-board salary bump.

Filed Under: WPLN News

Listen: What It’s Like To Be A Bouncer At One Of Nashville’s Busiest Honky-Tonks

Emily Siner

June 16, 2014

Andrew Kingery, who usually works Friday and Saturday nights, has pretty much seen it all. In 90 seconds, here’s what it’s like working the weekend crowds, fending off unwanted advances and keeping the bar under control.

Filed Under: WPLN News Tagged With: Gotta Hear It, honky-tonk, Lower Broadway

Nashville-Based App Tells Conservatives Where To Shop, But Liberals Use It Too

Bradley George

June 16, 2014

The app, known as 2nd Vote, rates businesses on their support of same-sex marriage, abortion rights, and environmental issues.

Filed Under: WPLN News Tagged With: 2nd Vote

Immigrant Families Benefiting From New Tennessee Tuition Law: Maybe 0

Blake Farmer

June 16, 2014

Starting this fall, students with undocumented parents will be able to get in-state tuition at Tennessee universities and community colleges. The Republican legislature was commended for making overtures to the immigrant community. But the gesture might have been only symbolic.

Filed Under: Race & Equity, WPLN News Tagged With: Eben Cathey, Tennessee Board of Regents, Tennessee Immigrant and Refugee Rights Coalition, Todd Gardenhire

With More Visitors From Out Of Town, This Will Be Nashville’s Biggest Pride Festival Yet

Emily Siner

June 13, 2014

Nashville’s gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender Pride Festival is expected to bring more than 18,000 people downtown this weekend. This would the highest turnout in the festival’s 26-year history.

Filed Under: WPLN News

Unlike Lt. Gov. Ramsey, Lawyers Want To Keep Tennessee Supreme Court Justices

Blake Farmer

June 13, 2014

The Tennessee Bar Association is all but endorsing three Supreme Court justices sitting for retention elections this year. The group released a poll Friday showing 90 percent of respondents favor keeping the court as it is.

Filed Under: WPLN News Tagged With: Ron Ramsey, Tennessee Bar Association

Ridesharing Services Like Lyft and Uber Will Face New Regulations By End of Summer

bobby allyn

June 13, 2014

Under Nashville’s current law, those services are technically illegal.

Filed Under: WPLN News

Remembering The Champion Of Middle Tennessee’s Cedar Glades, Elsie Quarterman

Nina Cardona

June 13, 2014

Middle Tennessee lost a trailblazing woman this week. Elsie Quarterman began working at Vanderbilt as a lab assistant during World War II; roughly twenty years later she was the university’s first female department chair. But the ecologist’s greatest legacy is in the small forest clearings she studied and preserved.

Filed Under: WPLN News

Karl Dean Doesn’t Want Charter Haters On The Nashville School Board

Blake Farmer

June 13, 2014

Nashville’s mayor says he “sort of doubts” he’ll endorse specific candidates running for school board. But he does have criteria for who he wants on the panel – charter school advocates.

Filed Under: WPLN News Tagged With: Karl Dean

Nashville’s Jewish Cemetery, An Often Overlooked Reflection Of Religious History

Emily Siner

June 12, 2014

Standing inside the gates, you can almost forget that there are houses and busy roads outside — the primarily African American neighborhood of Buena Vista. And outside the gates, you can almost forget what’s inside.

Filed Under: WPLN News

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