Listen The cold may not be sending many people to the hospital for prolonged exposure, but the extended sub-freezing temperatures are promoting an especially intense flu season.
Flu Is Bigger Concern Than Frostbite Amid Nashville’s Deep Freeze
How A Mt. Juliet Warehouse Keeps Your Unwanted Christmas Gifts Out Of The Landfill
Listen As the holiday shopping season ends and return season begins, customers might not realize that many of those items they send back could end up in landfills across the country. Tobin Moore is one of the founders of Optoro, a D.C.-based startup that, since 2010, has been helping retailers process returns more effectively using […]
Nashville’s Short-Term Rental Debate Builds Toward Decisive Vote
Nashville’s intense debate over how to regulate short-term rental properties once again goes before the Metro Council on Tuesday night. The public will make comments for and against services like Airbnb.
Opioid Crisis Causes Nashville-Based Hospital Chains To Warn Patients, ‘You Will Feel Pain’
Listen The big hospital chains based in Nashville are accepting some of the blame for the country’s opioid crisis, which grows more deadly by the year. They admit they were going overboard with opioids to make people as pain-free as possible. So in an effort to be part of the cure, they’re issuing an uncomfortable […]
Judge Postpones Sentencing For Nashville Man Facing Another Decade In Prison
A Nashville man facing another decade in prison, a year and a half after his release, may be able to continue his life on the outside. Late Friday, hours after WPLN reported on Matthew Charles’ upcoming hearing that would overturn his previously reduced sentence, U.S. District Judge Aleta Trauger filed an order making a rare […]
A Nashville Man Spent Two Decades Behind Bars. Now The Government Wants Him To Go Back.
Listen Editor’s note: On Friday night, a judge postponed Matthew Charles’s hearing. See the update here. Last year, a Nashville man got an unlikely chance at redemption. Matthew Charles walked out of a federal prison a decade before the end of his term, after the Obama administration reduced the minimum sentence guidelines for dealing crack. […]
Listen: A 93-Year-Old’s Nashville Accent Lives On, Even As Dialects Fade
Listen Nashville — like most locales — is losing its accents. Distinctive voices are diffusing in a modern world with mass media and transient lifestyles. But one 93-year-old is keeping the sound of old Nashville alive.
Listen: A 93-Year-Old’s Nashville Accent Lives On, Even As Dialects Fade
Nashville — like most locales — is losing its accents. Distinctive voices are diffusing in a modern world with mass media and transient lifestyles. But…
Wrongfully Convicted Wilson County Man Asks State For $1M In Compensation
A Wilson County man wrongfully convicted of rape and robbery nearly 40 years ago is officially asking the state for $1 million in damages. The move comes just days after Lawrence McKinney was exonerated by Gov. Bill Haslam.
Concerns About Schoolchildren’s Safety, Campus Speech Spur New Tennessee Laws For 2018
Listen Worries about the safety of children as they travel to and from school has led to two new laws that go into effect Jan. 1 in Tennessee. But state leaders also fear college students have been overly protected, a situation they’ve also decided to address with a new law. They’re among the measures that take […]
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