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Nashville’s weather was snowier than normal this winter, but not colder

Nashville’s weather was snowier than normal this winter, but not colder

By Caroline Eggers

March 13, 2022

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Now, the region will be moving into a warming trend, with 70-degree temperatures expected by the end of the week.

Filed Under: Environment, WPLN News Tagged With: December tornadoes, snow, Weather

The 37208 Fund continues to sprinkle North Nashville artists, teachers and activists with cash

By Blake Farmer

March 13, 2022

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A micro-grant program has doled out another round of funding in North Nashville. The 37208 Fund launched in October, with the stated aim of bringing “reparations and justice” to the historic heart of the city’s Black community.

Filed Under: Race & Equity, WPLN News Tagged With: 37208, North Nashville, Race

At the statehouse: Resignation, education and a controversial confirmation

By Blaise Gainey

March 13, 2022

The ninth week of session held some unexpected twists and turns. 

Filed Under: Politics, WPLN News Tagged With: 112th Tennessee General Assembly, at the statehouse, funding formula, Glen Casada, state board of education, Tennessee Politics, this week at the statehouse, tnleg, tnpol

Tennessee lawmakers consider taking the Texas abortion law a step further, to ban almost all abortions

By Blake Farmer

March 13, 2022

Tennessee capitol

A proposal circulating in the Tennessee legislature and obtained by WPLN News could effectively ban abortions in the state.

Filed Under: Health Care, Politics Tagged With: Abortion, Mark Pody, medication abortion, Rebecca Alexander, Rusty Crowe

Reviewing the changing state of hate in Tennessee with WPLN’s Paige Pfleger

By This Is Nashville

March 11, 2022

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This week, the Southern Poverty Law Center released a report indicating the number of active hate groups in Tennessee has dropped over the past year. However, this doesn’t mean that hateful attitudes and extremism is decreasing across the state. 

Filed Under: News Hits, WPLN News

TSU is set to receive $250 million under Gov. Lee’s funding proposal. Now lawmakers want a way to track how the money is spent.

By Damon Mitchell

March 11, 2022

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Tennessee State University has more than $300 million dollars in deferred maintenance needs.

Filed Under: Education, Politics, Race & Equity, WPLN News Tagged With: HBCU, Higher Education, Tennessee Legislature, Tennessee State University, TSU

Some unhoused people avoid shelters when temps drop — and one street chaplain delivers propane to help keep them alive

By Tasha A.F. Lemley

March 11, 2022

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When Rev. Lisa Cook worked a corporate job downtown, she’d leave work and pass people sleeping on the streets. She says she was afraid, though she never talked to them. Now, the street chaplain says, she’s making up for lost time.

Filed Under: Features, WPLN News Tagged With: homeless, homelessness

Tennessee Senate confirms State Board of Education pick, whose online store sold ammunition used in a school shooting

By Blaise Gainey

March 11, 2022

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Gov. Bill Lee nominated Knoxville businessman Jordan Mollenhour last year to the board that creates policies for the state’s K-12 public schools. Critics say Mollenhour’s ammunition business clouds his resume.

Filed Under: Education, Politics, WPLN News Tagged With: guns, tennessee department of education, Tennessee State Board of Education

When McMinn County banned ‘Maus,’ one Franklin mom and her kid started reading it for book club

By Rose Gilbert

March 10, 2022

From left to right: Courtenay Rogers, Claire, AJ and Catie Fein

When Catie Fein and her eighth-grader, AJ, heard that the McMinn County school board had voted to ban Maus, they decided to fight back. So, they founded their own book club to read the Pulitzer Prize-winning Holocaust memoir together in Catie’s home in Franklin. 

Filed Under: Education, Features, Politics, WPLN News Tagged With: book bans, Holocaust, Maus

Nashville’s upcoming soccer stadium unveils new name, marking its international pursuits

By Juliana Kim

March 10, 2022

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Nashville’s hockey and football stadiums have attracted fans from all over the country. But the city’s upcoming $335 million soccer arena has bigger plans: it wants to see spectators from all over the world.

Filed Under: Business, Metro, Sports, WPLN News Tagged With: Major League Soccer, Nashville SC, Soccer

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