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Char Daston

Metro Arts is, once again, without a leader

Char Daston

January 13, 2025

A woman in a textured yellow and brown blouse with braided hair in a topknot talks into a microphone.

Paulette Coleman took over after last year’s chaotic grants cycle. Her resignation means Metro Arts has to navigate a precarious situation without its director.

Filed Under: Arts, Culture & Music, Race & Equity, WPLN News Tagged With: Metro Arts, Metro Arts Commission, metro finance, Metro Human Relations Commission, metro legal, Nashville Metro Council, Paulette Coleman

Middle Tennessee moves towards normalcy as snow begins to melt

Char DastonandLaTonya Turner

January 12, 2025

snow melt Tennessee capitol

Middle Tennessee is beginning to open back up after Friday’s snowstorm. Most of Middle Tennessee received between three and four inches of snow.

Filed Under: WPLN News Tagged With: metro water services, snow, tennessee emergency management agency, Tennessee Highway Patrol, WeGo, Williamson County

Winter storm brings challenges — and snow joy — to Tennessee

Cynthia Abrams, Char Daston, Tony GonzalezandRachel Iacovone

January 8, 2025

Life in Middle Tennessee is expected to grind to a halt Friday as a major snowfall sweeps through — the culmination of days of escalating warnings and the potential for 8 inches of snow in some places.

Filed Under: WPLN News Tagged With: Cold weather, National Weather Service, severe weather, snow, TEMA, winter weather

How Tennessee quietly made it harder for prisoners to access books

Char Daston

January 6, 2025

Three people wearing face masks peruse bookshelves in a basement.
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Due to a 2024 policy change by the state, nonprofits that have sent free books to prisoners for over 50 years can’t serve Tennessee anymore.

Filed Under: Criminal Justice, Education, WPLN News Tagged With: prisons, Tennessee Department of Correction, Turney Center Industrial Complex

The key question that caused chaos at Metro Arts in 2024

Char Daston

December 31, 2024

Metro Arts Commissioner Leah Dupree Love, Director Daniel Singh, and Commissioner Diana Perez sit in office chairs at a boardroom table in front of a blue wall. The Tennessee flag is on a pole behind them.
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The debate can be summed up like this: should Metro Arts focus its grantmaking on individual artists or arts nonprofits? The issue has divided Nashville’s arts community.

Filed Under: Arts, Culture & Music, Race & Equity, WPLN News Tagged With: 2024 Year in Review, Daniel Singh, Metro Arts, Metro Arts Commission, metro finance, Metro Human Relations Commission, metro legal, Nashville Metro Council

NashVillager Podcast holiday edition: Nashville’s changing seasons

Char Daston

December 26, 2024

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Can we still appreciate the simple things around us?

Filed Under: NashVillager Podcast, WPLN News Tagged With: 2024 Year in Review

Most Tennesseans support deporting all undocumented immigrants. A local church leader says the reality is more complicated.

Char Daston

December 18, 2024

The Tennessee Immigrant & Refugee Rights Coalition held a press conference to highlight bills sponsored by members of the 113th General Assembly they are opposed.
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84% of Tennesseans support deporting undocumented immigrants with a criminal record, according to a new poll by Vanderbilt University.

Filed Under: Politics, Race & Equity, WPLN News Tagged With: Catholic, East Tennessee, illegal immigration, Immigration, Vanderbilt University

New TSU interim president faces scrutiny from state legislators

Char Daston

December 16, 2024

Two men in suits sit at a table, behind nameplates and in front of a large blue television screen.

In his first day on the job on Monday, Tennessee State University’s new interim president, Dwayne Tucker, took questions from members of the State Building Commission, and officials are asking for budget cuts.

Filed Under: Education, Politics, Race & Equity, WPLN News Tagged With: LEAD Public Schools, tennessee state legislature, Tennessee State University

Metro Arts finally has a grants plan for 2025. It has similar rules and less money for artists.

Char Daston

December 10, 2024

An ornate art gallery on a balcony, with paintings displayed in large nooks with sloped ceilings.
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The city agency is behind schedule because it’s still recovering from last year’s chaotic funding cycle.

Filed Under: Arts, Culture & Music, Metro, Race & Equity, WPLN News Tagged With: Metro Arts, Metro Arts Commission

Police respond to bomb threat at Defense Sec. nominee’s Goodlettsville home

Char DastonandThe Associated Press

November 27, 2024

Goodlettsville police say they responded this morning to a bomb threat at the home of Pete Hegseth, Donald Trump’s pick for Secretary of Defense.

Filed Under: Criminal Justice, Politics, WPLN News Tagged With: bomb threat, Goodlettsville, Pete Hegseth, Sumner County, Tennessee Bureau of Investigation

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