Tennessee state Sen. Richard Briggs
Laws on abortion are out of step with public opinion. One Republican legislator in Tennessee is working to establish exceptions to his state’s strict abortion laws, but he faces a tough battle.
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Rachel Iacovone (YAH-kuh-VOAN-ee) is WPLN's Director of Multiplatform Publishing, which is a long way of saying she leads all the ways the news reaches you (this website, social media, This Is Nashville and more). She began her public radio career covering politics in Florida during the 2016 presidential race. In 2019, Rachel came to Nashville as a local Morning Edition, and later All Things Considered, host before her passion for data deep dives, visualizations, photography and social media storytelling pulled her off air and put her online fully.
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