Listen Facing budget challenges and the recent division over mass transit, Nashville Mayor David Briley delivered a somber “State of Metro” speech on Friday.
Briley On State Of Metro: In City’s Boom, ‘Not Everyone Has Benefited’
BNA’s New London Flight Gives Health Care Companies A Stepping Stone To India
Listen Nashville health care companies with a major presence in the U.K. helped lobby for the new direct flight to London that starts Friday. But it may be firms with operations in India that have the most to gain.
Haslam Vetoes Bill To Require Insurance Coverage Of Experimental Cancer Treatment
Updated 10 p.m. with reaction from Provision Proton Therapy and legislative leadership. Gov. Bill Haslam has vetoed a measure that would have required the state’s insurance plan to cover an experimental cancer treatment. Proton therapy promises to pinpoint radiation on the places that require treatment and do less collateral damage on surrounding organs and tissue, […]
Versify #17: Ending The Game With Sunset
For most people, living with your parents past your early 20s isn’t something to make a point of bringing up in public. But Paresh Sheth says that living with his mom and dad in a three generation household has deepened his understanding of commitment — especially now that his mother is in the hospital. Paresh […]
WPLN News Team Takes Home Two Regional Murrow And 21 Tennessee AP Awards
Though a far cry from the White House Correspondents Dinner, Nashville played host to its own celebration of the news media last weekend at the Tennessee AP Awards. Hosted by the Tennessee Associated Press and MTSU’s school of journalism, the awards honored reporters, editors, producers and hosts across the state, in TV, newspapers and radio.
Nashville Mayor Says He’s Ready To Start On Next Transit Plan
Listen Nashville Mayor David Briley says he’s setting to work on a new plan for mass transit in Nashville following this week’s defeat of a $5.4 billion proposal featuring light rail. Briley says he’s already spoken with some opponents of the failed transit plan, and he intends to push forward with improvements to the city’s […]
The First Challenge For The 13 Candidates For Nashville’s Mayor? Standing Out
Listen With 13 candidates running for mayor in the next three weeks, it’s a challenge both for residents to keep track of them — and for the candidates themselves to find a way to stand out in a crowded race. At a mayoral forum last night at the Nashville Public Library, moderators from the Tennessean […]
Conversation: How Nashville Voted On Transit, And What’s Next
Listen Whether for or against Nashville’s failed multi-billion-dollar mass transit plan, the question for Nashville residents has become: What led to such a lopsided vote?
Meet The 13 People Running To Be Nashville’s Next Mayor
Listen The field of Nashville mayoral candidates is thick: Thirteen people have filed the necessary paperwork to run for Nashville’s top office. They veer from the unorthodox — a master barber, a former limo driver — to the more traditional lawyers and politicians. More:WPLN’s Complete Coverage Of The 2018 Mayoral Election To familiarize voters with […]
Struggling Franklin-Based CHS Shows A Few Signs Of Stabilization
Listen Community Health Systems — one of the major employers in Middle Tennessee — did better than analysts expected in the first three months of the year, showing some signs of a turnaround. The Franklin-based hospital chain has struggled to turn a profit while paying down a burdensome debt load, a result primarily of acquiring […]
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