Listen After years of successive failures, backers of medical cannabis in Tennessee are taking a new tack — keeping the ban on smoking it.
Tennessee Lawmakers Propose Allowing Medical Cannabis — As Long As It’s Not Smoked
Nashville Makes Short List For Amazon HQ2
Nashville is among the top 20 sites being considered for a second headquarters for Amazon. The company released the list Thursday morning which did not indicate any preferential order.
New ‘Court Kiosks’ Will Help Guide Tennesseans Without Lawyers Through The Legal System
Some courthouses in Tennessee will soon have a special laptop computer and printer in their lobbies, called “court kiosks.” They’re designed to help those who can’t afford — or choose not to hire — a lawyer, and are representing themselves in civil cases.
Intensive Mental Health Aid Expands For High-Needs Kids In Rural Tennessee
A program to assist desperate parents in rural Tennessee is expanding to DeKalb and half a dozen other counties. The initiative, which is already operating in Putnam and Coffee counties, establishes a two-person support team — a care coordinator and a family support specialist, who is often the parent of a child with a mental […]
Listen: Sledders Take To The Hills Of Nashville
Much of Middle Tennessee had enough snow Tuesday to warrant legitimate sledding. WPLN’s Tony Gonzalez caught up with families in Shelby Park and produced this audio postcard. Listen Snow has moved out of Middle Tennessee, but single-digit temperatures will turn most of the snow and sleet into ice Tuesday night, especially on the roads. Most […]
Election Officials Reassure Worried Lawmakers That Tennessee’s Voting Records Are Secure
Listen Tennessee’s top election officials tried to allay fears that the state’s voting records are vulnerable to hacking, even as they acknowledged there’s a significant risk that outside groups could try to disrupt future elections.
Neighbors: The Manifestor
Everyone seems inspired by fitness instructor Katherine Tisha Wilson. People describe going to her class as “going to church.” Her fierceness comes at you instantly from the front of the class, but this high school dropout wasn’t always confident in herself. After a long road of disappointment, she found a fitness dance program and lost […]
Metro Schools Asked Every Teacher And Student How They’re Doing. Here Are The Results
While most Metro Nashville teachers believe their schools have high academic expectations for students, more than half of them also believe it’s difficult for students to get extra support when they need it. Those are some of the results from the largest internal survey ever conducted by the district, which polled teachers, students […]
Nashville General Says Community Care Depends On Remaining A Full-Service Hospital
Listen Mayor Megan Barry has now given until the end of the year for some kind of restructuring at Nashville General Hospital to begin, but the only idea on the table at the moment is hers: Close the inpatient hospital to save money and focus instead on outpatient chronic disease care. Hospital officials say they’re […]
Why Tennessee Democrats Want To Make Health Care The Main Issue
Listen Democrats in the Tennessee legislature moved swiftly last week to make health care the first debate of the 2018 session.
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