A frugal Tennessee resident opted out of Medicare Part B, which carries $175 monthly premiums. Now her heirs face a huge bill for an air-ambulance ride.
Emily Siner, News Director
Emily Siner is the news director at WPLN News, overseeing an award-winning newsroom that serves Nashville and Middle Tennessee. Since joining Nashville Public Radio in 2014, she has also reported on a wide range of topics, including for national news outlets, and helped the station develop a fleet of podcasts and live events. She hosts the Movers & Thinkers podcast.
What Tennessee can learn from a high-profile tragedy that led to the legalization of abortion in Ireland
Just like in Tennessee, the Republic of Ireland has had intense debates about abortion access. But 10 years ago this week, one woman’s death caused an uproar that eventually led to the country to legalizing abortion.
Dublin or Lower Broadway? Thousands of Garth Brooks fans celebrate his first Irish show in 25 years, cowboy hats and all
When Garth Brooks finally comes to town, Dublin is awash in T-shirts about Tennessee whiskey, cowboy hats, and drunken renditions of “Friends in Low Places.”
‘This is once in a lifetime’: A Lebanon grade-schooler remembers the total solar eclipse, 5 years later
What happens when your earliest memory of a world event is actually something joyful?
A decade ago, Tennessee had more protections for abortion than much of the country. What changed?
Abortions in Tennessee are almost completely going away within the next month. But less than a decade ago, the state had more protections for abortion than the rest of the county.
The fastest supercomputer in the world resides, once again, in Tennessee
WPLN News Director Emily Siner and Justin Whitt, director of the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility, discussed the Frontier supercomputer on This Is Nashville on June 7. You can listen to the full episode here. A new supercomputer at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, called Frontier, has been crowned the fastest in the world — and […]
Four years after a man opened fire at a Nashville Waffle House, his trial ends with a life sentence
On Saturday, District Attorney Glenn Funk said the life sentence for 33-year-old Travis Reinking can’t bring the victims back to life or erase the families’ grief, but he believes the conviction and life sentence will deter future shootings.
City historians are on a mission to track down every cemetery in Davidson County
The Metro Historical Commission is trying to track down every historic cemetery in Davidson County, with the goal of protecting past generations from the rapid development of our current one.
21 stories that brought us joy in 2021, from the WPLN newsroom
In 2021, the WPLN newsroom investigated systemic wrongdoing and responded with care to the biggest local news events. But what follows is a list of the stories that uplifted us. We hope they’ll do the same for you.
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