Listen In Davidson County, about 4,000 undocumented immigrants come through the court system each year for driving without a license. This otherwise minor offense for U.S. citizens can trigger serious consequences for the undocumented — especially if they plead guilty.
For Undocumented Drivers, Nashville Considers Legal Assistance
Republican Lawmakers Say They Didn’t Push For Chattanooga Reporter To Be Fired
Listen Republican state lawmakers are denying they pressured the University of Tennessee-Chattanooga into firing a public radio reporter. Reporter Jacqui Helbert has been accused of recording meetings between a group of high school students and their state lawmakers without identifying herself.
Tennessee Legislators Vote To Move President Polk’s Grave
Tennessee lawmakers have taken the first step toward exhuming the remains of President James K. Polk and moving him to a family home in Columbia, Tennessee.
Nashville Solicits A Second Batch Of Innovative Ideas For Government
Listen The meat-and-potatoes portion of Nashville’s budget hearings has concluded. This week, Mayor Megan Barry will listen to nontraditional ideas for how the Metro government might serve taxpayers.
Study Finds Low-Income Students Do Well After Vanderbilt, But Few Attend In The First Place
Listen Vanderbilt has long had a reputation for attracting wealthy students. However, no one knew exactly how wealthy until earlier this year. That’s when economists at Stanford, Harvard and Brown released a massive new dataset on America’s colleges and universities. It found that nearly a quarter of Vanderbilt students come from families in the top […]
In Some Tennessee High Schools, Nearly A Third Get Permission To Skip Foreign Language
Listen In Tennessee’s most rural school districts, nearly a third of students are graduating without the required two years of a foreign language. And a district with some of the highest use of foreign language waivers defends the practice as helpful to students.
In Antioch, Rural Roads and High Traffic Make For Dangerous Intersections
Listen As you approach Mount View Road, while driving down Hickory Hollow Parkway, you see train tracks to your left and trees growing out of a hill on your right. This is Nashville’s most dangerous intersection.
Tennessee Republicans Pledge To Keep Fighting Obamacare After GOP Bill Is Pulled
Tennessee’s lone GOP holdout who maintained he was leaning against voting for the health care bill Friday, says it’s time to work harder to get it right. Congressman Scott DesJarlais, whose district includes Murfreesboro, disliked the Republicans’ bill because he said it didn’t solve enough of the problems of Obamacare.
Capitol Hill Conversation: Headline-Grabbing Bills And The Quiet Proposals That Might Actually Pass
Listen This year’s state legislative session has been dominated by headline-grabbing debates over issues like transgender bathrooms and six-week abortion bans. But it’s often not the proposals that gain the most attention that actually become Tennessee law. Sometimes it’s the less ambitious measures that hide in their wake. WPLN statehouse reporter Chas Sisk is here […]
‘Diffusers’ Try To Cure Violence In This Nashville Neighborhood
Listen Rodney Northington is an unlikely person to be telling folks who live in the James Cayce housing projects to put down their guns. He’s a convicted felon, a former drug dealer and at one-time a high-ranking gang member. But he’s also, quite possibly, the perfect man for the job.
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