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Ambriehl Crutchfield

Ambriehl Crutchfield is WPLN's metro reporter. Ambriehl believes in centering community voices and concerns in news coverage in order to create standout original content that listeners depend on from public radio.

Tennessee makes camping out on public property a felony, targeting unhoused

Ambriehl Crutchfield

July 1, 2022

Tennessee residents and organizers are camping out at Nashville’s Riverfront Park to protest a new state law going into effect on July 1.  

Filed Under: Criminal Justice, Metro, Politics

How anti-abortion advocates have used the language of racial justice for their cause

Ambriehl Crutchfield

June 29, 2022

Planned Parenthood office Nashville

Terms such as “genocide” and links to racial justice movements are often used by abortion opponents, but support for abortion remains strong among Black Americans.

Filed Under: Abortion In Depth, Health Care, Race & Equity, Science Tagged With: abortion rights, anti-abortion rights

Hundreds gather in downtown Nashville to protest SCOTUS decision striking Roe v. Wade

Jackie LlanosandAmbriehl Crutchfield

June 24, 2022

Hundreds of protesters gathered at the Historic Metro Courthouse in downtown Nashville on Friday evening to protest the end of legal abortions in Tennessee.

Filed Under: Health Care, Politics, WPLN News Tagged With: Abortion, abortion rights, Nashville, Nashville courthouse, protest, Tennessee

Nashville teachers and school support staff get a pay bump in Metro budget as inflation rises

Ambriehl Crutchfield

June 23, 2022

All Metro Nashville Public Schools employees will receive at least a 4% cost-of-living adjustment in the upcoming fiscal year. 

Filed Under: Education, Metro

Metro’s codes has struggled to keep up with the development boom. Now it’s getting 35 new hires to help.

Ambriehl Crutchfield

June 23, 2022

Nashville’s codes department has been understaffed for years, compared to the city’s skyrocketing development, officials say. But this week the city budget added 35 new staff, which inches the department closer to where it should be.

Filed Under: Metro, WPLN News Tagged With: development, Metro Codes, Nashville Metro Council

After Metro Arts lost half its staff, the city’s diversity leaders lay out a blueprint to recover from harm

Ambriehl Crutchfield

June 17, 2022

Nashville’s arts department wants to expose and address inequities in their leadership, practices and policies, according to a public equity statement the agency published years ago.

Filed Under: Arts, Culture & Music, Metro, Race & Equity

Displaced: For some at Riverchase, the search for housing remains a major challenge despite offers of help

Ambriehl Crutchfield

June 14, 2022

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The last residents of the Riverchase apartment complex in East Nashville have two weeks to move out.

Filed Under: Metro, Race & Equity Tagged With: displacement, homelessness, Housing, Jackie Sims, Oracle, Riverchase apartments, Virginia Holland

Chattanooga mayor calls for new gun regulations after second shooting in two weeks

Ambriehl Crutchfield

June 5, 2022

police tape

In Chattanooga, three people are dead and 14 others were wounded after a shooting in the early hours on Sunday.

Filed Under: Criminal Justice, WPLN News

Displaced: Riverchase residents feel tension as community groups split on their demands of developer

Ambriehl Crutchfield

June 2, 2022

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On a sweaty Friday morning in April, three P.A.T.H.E. workers and a volunteer are coordinating moves for Riverchase families. One family needs a huge bean bag brought to them in the motel or their storage unit — depending on logistics.

Filed Under: Metro, Politics, Race & Equity Tagged With: CREA LLC, displacement, Housing, Jackie Sims, McFerrin Park, Melissa Cherry, Oracle, P.A.T.H.E, Riverchase apartments, sean parker, Stand Up Nashville

Displaced: An affordable housing complex in East Nashville deteriorated in plain sight. Here’s how it happened.

Ambriehl Crutchfield

May 25, 2022

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One by one, the Riverchase Apartments are getting boarded up, forcing residents to move out of the East Nashville affordable housing complex.

Filed Under: Metro, WPLN News Tagged With: East Bank, Housing, Mayor John Cooper, Oracle, Riverchase apartments, Titans stadium

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