Sierra McCants got into the skilled trades during the height of the pandemic. She had been working in the restaurant industry, when many businesses were shutting down. That’s when she enrolled Music City Construction Careers.
Damon Mitchell, Enterprise Reporter
Damon Mitchell is WPLN's enterprise reporter. He was previously the station's Emerging Voices Fellow. Before moving to Nashville, he was a freelance journalist in Detroit.
Tennessee voters will soon decide the future of right-to-work. The outcome could complicate things for workers in a state already stacked toward employers.
Tennessee voters will have to decide in November whether to write the state’s right-to-work law into the state’s constitution.
Tennessee colleges are struggling to graduate Black males. Here’s how one university is making strides.
A group of mostly Black males gathers for a photo in the multicultural affairs office at Tennessee Tech University in Cookeville. Some of them are new to college, and others are in their final years of completing a degree.
It’s another wet day in Middle Tennessee, and forecasters warn of possible flooding
After a rainy start to Labor Day weekend, forecasters are issuing a flood watch due to the likelihood of more thunderstorms and heavy rain.
‘Cashville’: How a ’90s nickname for Nashville became a nationally known brand
Inside the cultural arts retail space of The PSV Store near downtown Nashville, Carlos Partee sits alongside longtime Nashville DJ, C-Wiz.
Nashville has made progress housing homeless veterans. A new mixed-income property could boost those efforts.
The number of homeless veterans in Nashville has declined in the past few years. But there are still many former service members without a permanent place to live.
Tennessee technical colleges are now required to partner with local high schools. Here’s what that means for Nashville.
Tennessee College of Applied Technology campuses, or TCATs, will now be required to partner with local high schools to provide early career exposure opportunities to students.
Tennessee has tens of thousands of jobs to fill, but hardly anyone wants them
Tennessee’s unemployment rate has remained at 3.3% for the third consecutive month, according to the state’s Department of Labor and Workforce Development. The rate was at an all-time low of 3.2% in March and April.
Waverly’s flood recovery has a long way to go, and the deaths and departures make for an uncertain future
It’s been one year since a flood tore through Waverly, Tenn., and killed 20 people. There’s been lots of effort to rebuild, but it’s still unclear if the town will ever be the same.
Despite slow school voucher rollout, some Tennessee families have been scrambling to get them
Not a single Nashville or Memphis family has been approved to participate in Tennessee’s Education Savings Account program, also referred to as school vouchers. The controversial program received the go-ahead from a panel of judges just this month.
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