The death of a 28-year-old drummer from East Nashville has inspired a fund meant to pay for primary care and diagnostic testing for musicians. Ben Eyestone, who played for Margo Price and Nikki Lane, died from colon cancer last year just days after being diagnosed. He was uninsured but had tried to get a colonoscopy […]
Fund Launches For Uninsured Musicians To Get Medical Tests
Unlike In Recent Years, Metro Government Now Braces For Budget Cuts
Listen Nashville’s government departments have been warned to take a conservative approach to spending this year, a message that will inform the budget hearings that begin Monday with Mayor David Briley.
Tennessee’s Next Governor: How The Candidates Talk About Immigration — And Why It Matters
Listen About 315,000 people in the state are immigrants. That’s works out to about one in 20 Tennesseans. How other people feel about those newcomers has become one of the most polarizing questions among voters.
Why Governor Haslam’s Opioid Restrictions Took So Long To Advance
Listen Governor Bill Haslam is headed into the final months of his time in office, and he’s decided that combating the opioid epidemic will be his last big legislative push. Haslam started the session by endorsing a proposal that would impose stricter rules on prescribing the painkillers. Not until last week did that measure begin […]
Saint Thomas Installs Baby Webcams In NICU, Keeping Parents Connected From Home
Listen The neonatal intensive care unit at Saint Thomas Midtown is the first in Middle Tennessee to go live with baby webcams, a technological upgrade that hospitals around the country have been installing. But the video streams are seen as more than a modern convenience.
Curious Nashville: What We’ve Learned In Two Years Of Answering Your Questions
Piranhas, tombstones, tunnels, and trains. Questions about Nashville road names. And even a query about how much it rains here. (The answer: Nashville does receive more annual rainfall than stereotypically soggy Seattle.) These subjects, and many more, have made for a lively 2 years for Curious Nashville.
After Resolution Condemning Neo-Nazis Fails, Tennessee Lawmakers Debate Who’s At Fault
Listen Tennessee lawmakers are pointing fingers at one another over the failure of a resolution condemning white nationalists and neo-Nazis, after a House panel defeated the measure earlier this week.
Senator Alexander Presses Again To Shore Up ACA Marketplace
Tennessee Senator Lamar Alexander is putting some election-year pressure on Congress to shore up the individual insurance marketplace. As the head of the Senate’s health committee, he promised the bi-partisan legislation as a way to mitigate any damage from canceling the individual mandate to buy insurance.
Why Did So Many Kids Born In North Nashville In The ’80s Go To Prison?
A new study on the relationship between childhood poverty and how likely someone is to be imprisoned later contains an eyebrow-raising statistic about one Nashville neighborhood.
How Middle Tennessee Students Protested Gun Violence During National School Walkout
This post was last updated at 11:45 a.m. Students across the country have been organizing for a March 14 demonstration since the Valentine’s Day shooting at Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla. In Middle Tennessee, high schoolers stood in silence, waved signs, marched and chanted. Two Schools, Two Different Emphases Students at Hillsboro High […]
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