The federal definition of affordable housing is spending no more than 30% of your income on rent or a mortgage. Is your definition of “affordable housing” different?
What does ‘affordable housing’ mean to you?
To replace, or retain? Here’s how to navigate all those questions about judges on Nashville’s ballot
To retain, or replace: that is the question. Or, at least, it’s a question you’ll be greeted with more than 20 times when you go to vote.
Tennessee’s new vouchers could shake up public schools, but as classes resume it’s still wait-and-see
It’s unlikely that Nashville public schools will face an exodus of students because of Tennessee’s Education Savings Account Program anytime soon. In addition to Metro Schools, ESAs are open to students in Memphis-Shelby County Schools and the Achievement School District.
Women are underrepresented in Nashville police. Could ballot Amendment 2 help?
Right now, people who want to become police officers in Nashville are subject to standards based off the military. There are height and weight requirements, and health history requirements.
Despite teacher shortage, ‘the joy of knowing my students’ motivates this Nashville educator
With less than a week before Metro students return to class, the district is still filling roughly 190 teaching positions. And the vacancy rate is even higher among teachers for English language learners.
Meet the three Tennessee Democrats who want to take on incumbent Gov. Bill Lee
Tennessee hasn’t elected a Democratic governor since Phil Bredesen in 2006. But, this year, there are three Democrats hoping to change that. If they win the primary election on Thursday, they’ll go on to challenge incumbent Republican Gov. Bill Lee this fall.
Songwriters Hall of Fame class includes two women, including Shania Twain, for the first time since 2009
The Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame announced its new class of inductees for 2022, which includes Canadian superstar Shania Twain. She wrote 22 of her own songs that ended up in the Top 20 of the Billboard charts.
Following the Uvalde shooting, police presence at Nashville schools will be at ‘highest levels ever’
Nashville high schools will have at least two permanent school resource officers, and magnets will have regular visits. A few middle schools have permanent SROs, and others will have rotating coverage.
They lost TennCare when paperwork was sent to a pasture, signaling the mess to come
Three years ago, Mason Lester, a rambunctious toddler, tumbled off his family’s porch and broke his wrist. His mother, nine months pregnant, rushed him to a nearby hospital, where she made a confounding discovery: Their health insurance had vanished.
Nashville Youth Poet Laureate’s debut work traces her maternal line through Tennessee civil rights, reconstruction and slavery
The dawn of civilization can be traced back roughly 400 generations. That means there are roughly 400 mothers between you and the beginning of human history.
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