The Metro Nashville Police Department will employ a “Drone as First Responder” trial program around the Madison precinct.
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 to host Super Bowl LXIV in 2030
Nashville and its new Nissan Stadium will host Super Bowl LXIV in 2030 in a decision that local officials are hailing as a historic event that will put a global spotlight on the city. The announcement came Tuesday after a decision at the NFL Spring League Meeting in Orlando.
Nashville’s Fort Negley reckons with its portrayal of history and race, going against the federal grain
A nationally significant site in Nashville is getting $11 million in upgrades. Fort Negley built for the Union by Black laborers during the Civil War, will also get a fresh telling of its story.
‘Assault on local government’: Nashville leaders lament latest legislative session
Nashville and Tennessee leaders are at odds — again. Metro’s legal team says it was an “unprecedented” legislative session for bills adversarial to Nashville and local governments.
Walk-up songs, big cheers and no strikeouts: Miracle Fields offer a new kind of baseball
Miracle Fields are a kind of accessible baseball diamond growing in popularity that can accommodate players with disabilities.
Here are the winners for Nashville clerk, school board and judge roles
Nashville voters chose Democrats for an array of local positions Tuesday.
After last year’s property tax increase, Nashville mayor plans to hold city spending at $3.8B
Mayor O’Connell identified his budget priorities as a grocery tax reduction, local business support and affordable housing investment.
Metro takes legal action against Tennessee prisons over inmate custody
Metro claims it’s been subsidizing the state by more than $5 million a year by continuing to house inmates who have been sentenced to state custody.
Nashville’s May 5 primary will be decisive without Republicans on the ballot
Nashville voters will be deciding on positions like the school board, judges, court and county clerks and internal Democratic Party roles.
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