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Cynthia Abrams
Cindy Abrams is WPLN’s metro reporter. She grew up in Eugene and Portland, Oregon and moved east after graduating from Whitman College. Cindy comes to Nashville from central Virginia, where she covered the courts at Rappahannock News. She was WPLN’s digital news intern in 2021 before joining the station full-time as a newscast and digital producer last year. She started covering the Metro government in the fall of 2023.
Nashville housing orgs in limbo after federal government abruptly reverses funding decision
HUD made a policy change that cuts funding for permanent supportive housing, prompting organizations and cities — including Nashville — to sue.
Nashville adopts zoning changes aimed at diversifying housing options
Earlier this year, a housing and infrastructure study from Metro’s Planning Department found that Nashville will need approximately 90,000 more units over the next decade to keep up with demand.
Schools, roads and East Bank infrastructure: Nashville’s new $532 million capital spending plan
The plan marks an increase of $5 million since last year’s plan.
Nashville zoning debate escalates to ethics complaint over a Metro Council member
Councilmember Rollin Horton faces an ethics complaint stemming from his successful rezoning of the Nations.
MTSU researchers chime in on President Trump’s 50-year mortgage idea
President Trump sparked uproar last week when he proposed a 50-year mortgage. Many people, including Trump’s own supporters, criticized the idea. Now, Middle Tennessee State University has joined the opposition, citing a report from the school’s College of Business.
Metro reaches deal with TPAC for performing arts center on East Bank
After a lengthy negotiation, Metro and TPAC have a deal for an East Bank location for the performing arts center.
The shutdown is over, but Tennesseans are still waiting for funds to help pay utility bills
The longest government shutdown in U.S. history impacted or cut off many federal programs that help Americans. And while the government is technically back up and running, some of those aid programs are not.
As the shutdown hits wallets, some Nashvillians push for a freeze on bus fares
Dozens of local organizations have signed onto a request for fares to freeze until SNAP benefits resume.
Nashville’s ‘participatory budgeting’ experiment is over. How will residents get a say in city spending?
Metro has officially done away with the program that allowed residents to nominate neighborhood projects and then vote for which ones would ”win” city funding.
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