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Judíos En Nashville Y Migrantes Se Unen Para Protestar Agencia De Inmigración Y Control De Aduanas

Judíos En Nashville Y Migrantes Se Unen Para Protestar Agencia De Inmigración Y Control De Aduanas

Samantha Max

August 19, 2019

Read in English. Docenas de manifestantes criticaron la cooperación local con Inmigración y Control de Aduanas (ICE) en el norte de Nashville el lunes por la mañana. Migrantes, Judíos y aliados se reunieron en una calle cerca de una oficina de campo de ICE con pancartas y libros de oraciones para una manifestación llena de […]

Filed Under: Criminal Justice, WPLN News Tagged With: Español, Immigration and Customs Enforcement

Nashville Jews And Immigrants Unite To Protest Immigration And Customs Enforcement

Samantha Max

August 19, 2019

Leer en español. Several dozen protesters criticized local cooperation with Immigration and Customs Enforcement in North Nashville Monday morning. Immigrants, Jews and allies gathered down the street from an ICE field office with picket signs and prayer books for a music-filled rally.

Filed Under: Criminal Justice, WPLN News Tagged With: Immigration and Customs Enforcement, News

As Fred’s Dismantles, Pharmacy Patients Scattered Across Tennessee

Blake Farmer

August 19, 2019

Listen Memphis-based discount retailer Fred’s is closing many of its stores and pharmacies. And as the troubled chain downsizes, patients across the Southeast are scattering.

Filed Under: Health Care, WPLN News Tagged With: Fred's, Health Care

Curious Nashville: What’s Inside The Governor’s Old Fallout Shelter In The Woods?

Tony GonzalezandJay Shah

August 19, 2019

Out in the ridges and thick woods of West Nashville rests an epic remnant of Cold War history. But it is largely unknown. It’s massive. Mostly underground. Once considered of the utmost importance to the state, but eventually ravaged by mold and vandals. It’s the defunct fallout shelter where Tennessee’s governors would have gone in […]

Filed Under: Curious Nashville, WPLN News Tagged With: Curious Nashville, nuclear weapons

After Months Of Scandals, Tennessee House of Representatives Set To Elect New Speaker

Sergio Martínez-Beltrán

August 19, 2019

Listen Tennessee lawmakers will come back to Nashville later this week to pick a new House speaker. The election will take place during Friday’s special session, which was called with specific guidelines on what can and cannot take place.

Filed Under: Politics, WPLN News Tagged With: Cameron Sexton, Gloria Johnson

Nashville Pastry Prodigies Compete On Food Network Show

Rachel Iacovone

August 19, 2019

Two of Food Network’s latest pastry prodigies are from right here in Nashville. Kids Baking Championship is a competition with a $25,000 prize for…

Filed Under: WPLN News

Briley, Cooper Spar Over Affordability In First Debate Of Nashville Runoff

Chas Sisk

August 19, 2019

Listen The runoff for Nashville mayor kicked into higher gear over the weekend, as incumbent David Briley and Metro Councilman John Cooper went head-to-head for the first time. At a far-ranging debate organized by the faith group Nashville Organized for Action and Hope, or NOAH, the two battled over the direction of the city — […]

Filed Under: Politics, WPLN News Tagged With: Elections 2019, John Cooper

Frist Museum Lends Its Indoor Walls To North Nashville’s Muralists

Rachel Iacovone

August 16, 2019

Listen Along with the population surge in Nashville, there’s been unprecedented growth in public art. If you’ve been to the Gulch lately, you’ve probably seen the line wrapping around the block to take a picture with “the angel wings” — the WhatLiftsYou mural by Kelsey Montague.

Filed Under: Arts, Culture & Music, WPLN News Tagged With: Frist Art Museum, murals

East Tennessee Man Put To Death By Electrocution For 1986 Double Murder

Chas SiskandSamantha Max

August 16, 2019

Listen An East Tennessee man has been executed for the 1986 murder of a teenage girl and her mother. Thursday night, Stephen West became the third person in the state to be put to death in the electric chair in less than a year. The electrocutions have come amid questions about whether the alternative, lethal […]

Filed Under: Criminal Justice, WPLN News Tagged With: capital punishment, Stephen West

Mayor’s Race 2019: John Cooper’s Best Weapon Was Frustrated Neighborhoods

Meribah Knight

August 15, 2019

Before Councilman John Cooper ran for mayor of Nashville, he was a perennial thorn in the side of Metro government, giving a hard no to a number of the…

Filed Under: WPLN News

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