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TBI investigations into shootings by Tennessee law enforcement are on the rise

TBI investigations into shootings by Tennessee law enforcement are on the rise

Samantha Max

January 13, 2022

Sign outside the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation headquarters

State agents have launched their first investigation of the new year into a shooting by law enforcement.

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

What do you see in Tennessee’s new legislative map? For Democrats, it’s bad signs and gerrymandering

Blaise Gainey

January 13, 2022

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Is it a dinosaur? An esophagus? The shapes might spark the imagination, but Democrats are saying they represent a power grab.

Filed Under: Politics, WPLN News Tagged With: Cameron Sexton, NAACP, redistricting

A flood displaced the family behind Waverly’s only Chinese restaurant. Now, they’ll have to start over — again.

Juliana Kim

January 13, 2022

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Heavy rain consumed everything they had ever owned and spared none of it — not their house, not their restaurant, not even their daughter’s toys.

Filed Under: Arts, Culture & Music, Business, Race & Equity, WPLN News Tagged With: Business, flood, restaurants, severe weather, small business, Waverly

With $2M in participatory budget funding, North Nashville residents focus on parks and transit

Ambriehl Crutchfield

January 12, 2022

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North Nashville and Bordeaux residents want to spend $2 million from the city on a new pavilion at the Bordeaux Gardens Park, air conditioning for the gym at the Looby community center, and six other projects.

Filed Under: Metro, Race & Equity, WPLN News

Opponents to Republicans’ proposed Congressional map say it’s unfair to minority and rural voters

Blaise Gainey

January 12, 2022

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The proposed Congressional map that came out of a Republican-led committee Wednesday inspired fierce and immediate opposition. It would split up Shelby County into two Congressional districts and Davidson into three.

Filed Under: Politics, WPLN News Tagged With: Congress, redistricting

Tennessee Supreme Court could shift more conservative with the governor’s new pick

Samantha Max

January 12, 2022

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Lee plans to fill the late Justice Cornelia Clark’s post with Sarah K. Campbell, a member of the Federalist Society whose current role is largely defending the constitutionality of state laws when they are challenged in court, such as abortion restrictions and the state’s protocols for verifying signatures on mail-in ballots.

Filed Under: Politics, WPLN News

Interactive: See the Republican-proposed congressional map that splices Nashville into three districts

Blaise Gainey

January 12, 2022

The Tennessee House Redistricting Committee’s proposed Congressional district map could eliminate a Democratic representative.

Filed Under: Politics, WPLN News Tagged With: Congressman Jim Cooper, Davidson County, Jim Cooper, redistricting

600 public comments later, the state education department releases draft of a new funding formula

Juliana Kim

January 12, 2022

Tennessee’s legislative session is in full swing, and so are efforts to pass a new formula on how the state divides school dollars. The Tennessee Department of Education released a draft framework Tuesday night, with the opportunity to provide feedback through Jan. 18.

Filed Under: Education, WPLN News

Tennessee nursing homes are in critical need of staffing help

Blake Farmer

January 12, 2022

Knollwood therapists
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Since the pandemic began, nursing homes and assisted living facilities have lost more than 400,000 jobs, according to national data. Facilities in Tennessee have lost more than 8,000 workers — a 13% decrease.

Filed Under: Coronavirus Live Updates, Health Care, WPLN News Tagged With: certified nursing assistants, nursing homes

Pressed on his election lies, former President Trump cuts NPR interview short

Dominico Montanaro, Steve InskeepandMiles Parks

January 12, 2022

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Some Republican leaders are trying to move on from former President Donald Trump’s failed attempt to overturn the 2020 election that he lost. “While there were some irregularities, there were none of the irregularities which would have risen to the point where they would have changed the vote outcome in a single state,” Sen. Mike […]

Filed Under: Politics, WPLN News

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