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Proposed Concert Series Aims To Help Nashville’s Musicians And Community Bounce Back From The Pandemic

Proposed Concert Series Aims To Help Nashville’s Musicians And Community Bounce Back From The Pandemic

Paige Pfleger

May 19, 2021

Fans at CMA Fest
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Fourteen concerts drawing 60,000 a night. That’s the pitch a local nonprofit is making to aid the city’s recovery from the COVID pandemic.

Filed Under: Arts, Culture & Music, Metro, WPLN News Tagged With: COVID-19, music

Metro Strikes Out In Finding New Operator For Knowles Assisted Living

Blake Farmer

May 18, 2021

Knowles home activity room 2019

Closure is looking more imminent for Nashville’s city-funded assisted living facility, which cares mostly for patients who could not pay to live elsewhere.

Filed Under: Health Care Tagged With: Knowles home, Metro Government

Gov. Bill Lee Signs Anti-Trans Bathroom Signage Bill Into Law

Damon Mitchell

May 18, 2021

Governor Bill Lee signs paperwork swearing in John DeBerry as his special advisor.

Tennessee’s latest anti-trans law will expand beyond public schools and into public spaces.

Filed Under: Politics, WPLN News Tagged With: Bill Lee, lgbt, transgender

Sale Of Watkins College Building Generates $22M For Belmont Art Scholarship Endowment

Blake Farmer

May 18, 2021

Watkins College

Belmont University has sold the campus of Watkins College of Art in MetroCenter. The $22.5 million sale to a residential developer will establish an endowment to provide scholarships for visual art students.

Filed Under: Education Tagged With: Belmont University, watkins college of art

Gov. Bill Lee Says Masks, Vaccines Shouldn’t Be Required For Tennessee Schoolchildren

Blake FarmerandJuliana Kim

May 17, 2021

Lee also does not plan to call for making the COVID vaccine a requirement for children to attend school.

Filed Under: Education, Health Care, WPLN News Tagged With: Coronavirus In Tennessee, coronavirus vaccine, COVID-19, masks, Vaccines

Mississippi Abortion Case Could Have Impact On Tennessee

Chas Sisk

May 17, 2021

The court will be hearing arguments over whether states have to guarantee access to abortion until the second trimester.  Tennessee has been among the states arguing that’s too late.

Filed Under: Health Care, Politics, WPLN News Tagged With: Abortion

Tennessee Launches $2.5M Vaccine Ad Blitz, Informed By Focus Group Results

Blake Farmer

May 17, 2021

TDH PSA

Tennessee has launched a targeted ad blitz trying to get COVID vaccine holdouts to reconsider. The messages, titled “Give It A Shot,” were carefully crafted by recent work with a Tennessee focus group of vaccine skeptics.

Filed Under: Coronavirus Live Updates, WPLN News Tagged With: vaccine hesitancy

Houses Of Worship Grapple With The Vaxxed And Unvaxxed Divide

Blake Farmer

May 17, 2021

JP Conway
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Widespread vaccinations haven’t resolved all the questions of how to gather again, despite the eagerness of congregants to see each other again.

Filed Under: Coronavirus Live Updates, Health Care, WPLN News Tagged With: coronavirus vaccine

Nash In The Know: So Did Last Year’s Tax Hike Solve Nashville’s Financial Woes?

Ambriehl Crutchfield

May 17, 2021

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Nashville’s elected officials have gotten a lot of heat for increasing the property tax rate during the middle of the pandemic.

Filed Under: Metro, WPLN News

As Nashville Teens Start COVID Vaccinations, Some Have Concerns

Blake Farmer

May 17, 2021

Xander Huff with mother and sister
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The influx of teens getting COVID vaccines means many are getting shots not because they want to, but because someone else wants them to: namely, their parents.

Filed Under: Coronavirus Live Updates, Health Care Tagged With: coronavirus vaccine

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