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Relief may be in sight for Nashville’s amp makers after ‘worldwide panic’ wipes out supply of vacuum tubes

Relief may be in sight for Nashville’s amp makers after ‘worldwide panic’ wipes out supply of vacuum tubes

There are only two factories in the world that make vacuum tubes for guitar amps. None of them are in America — but that may be about to change.

Hickory Hollow joins mall-to-medicine transitions, which accelerated through the pandemic

Hickory Hollow Mall — 1.1 million square feet of retail space in southeast Nashville — was once Tennessee’s largest shopping center. Now, the mammoth complex is joining the ranks of malls making a transition into medicine.

Nashville firefighter who moonlights as comedian Josh Black sues the city and fire department for disciplining him over a tweet about racism

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A Nashville comedian is suing the city’s fire department for violating his right to free speech. Joshua Lipscomb, better known online as comedian Josh Black, was suspended over tweets he made under his stage name.

Nashville’s economy has recovered from the pandemic more quickly than many cities, but some community leaders are worried about those getting left behind

Inflation, gentrification and the great resignation are all taking a toll on Nashville’s economy as the city rebounds from the COVID-19 pandemic. Business and nonprofit leaders dissected the greatest challenges facing the local economy during a panel discussion with the Federal Reserve on Monday.

For baseball historian Skip Nipper, talking to lifelong fans inspires hope of a major league team coming to Nashville

It’s not enough to call Skip Nipper a baseball fan. He’s more like a baseball maestro, a historian, author and a collector of stories. It was his dad who first taught him to play, and he continues that legacy as a member of a handful of groups like the Nashville Old Timers Baseball Association and […]

His mother and sister were murdered. He’s focused his grief on exposing loopholes that endanger domestic violence victims.

Alex Youn has spent the year since his mother and sister’s deaths trying to figure out what went wrong in their case. He discovered loopholes in the criminal justice system, and turned those loopholes into law to protect future domestic violence victims.

ESPN analyst Buster Olney bets his family farm that Nashville will get a MLB team

ESPN analyst Buster Olney joined This Is Nashville host Khalil Ekulona to talk about the changes to this MLB season, what Nashville’s sports scene was like in the late ’80s and why he’s is confident that the city will get a MLB team. 

Resolutions sometimes honor heroes. Oftentimes, they’re a talking point for legislators looking to rally their base.

A lot of what WPLN Political Reporter Blaise Gainey covers during the Tennessee legislative session are bills — the things that change state law. But resolutions sometimes get overlooked. When the General Assembly met last year, 3,900 passed.

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