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Katherine Ceicys

Romance novels are booming — and diversifying — and this Nashville book club is loving it

Katherine Ceicys

September 5, 2023

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On a dark and stormy night, about 30 women brave the pouring rain to gather at Parnassus Books in Green Hills. They’re here for the store’s romance book club: Between the Covers.

Filed Under: Arts, Culture & Music, WPLN News Tagged With: authors, books, Parnassus Books

What is a ‘sister city’? Nashville prepares for cultural exchanges with Erbil, the capitol of the Kurdistan region of Iraq.

Katherine Ceicys

June 21, 2023

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A partnership roughly a decade in the making is about to become official: Nashville and Erbil, the capital of the Kurdistan region of Iraq, are in the homestretch of formalizing a relationship as “sister cities.” Erbil would become Nashville’s tenth sister — a designation that involves travel, cultural and professional exchanges.

Filed Under: Arts, Culture & Music, WPLN News Tagged With: Nashville Kurds, Sister Cities Nashville

How Tennessee has grown one of the largest student fishing circuits in the nation

Katherine Ceicys

June 11, 2023

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“We take everybody. That’s the beauty of it: that it’s open to absolutely everyone … And the fish don’t discriminate. They don’t care who you are. If you’ve got the right bait on, they’re going to come get it and then you get to weigh them in.”

Filed Under: Arts, Culture & Music, WPLN News Tagged With: Recreation, wildlife

As Tennessee’s physician assistants help more patients, they’re pushing for changes to restrictions set in 1999

Katherine Ceicys

May 22, 2023

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A legislative decision means it will be at least another year before Tennessee’s physician assistants — known as “PAs” — could get restrictions lifted on their scope of practice.

Filed Under: Health Care, WPLN News Tagged With: Health Care

WeGo seeks bus rider input to improve its Access service for people with disabilities

Katherine Ceicys

May 17, 2023

Nashville Access Ride bus
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Nashville’s WeGo transit agency is in the process of reviewing its Access program, which provides services for riders with disabilities, and considering more than two dozen potential changes.

Filed Under: Metro, WPLN News Tagged With: disabilities, transportation, WeGo

Fort Campbell soldiers feel increased ‘urgency’ in deployment near Ukraine

Katherine Ceicys

April 17, 2023

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The latest deployment of soldiers from Fort Campbell recently arrived in Romania, placing them at one of NATO’s closest outposts near Ukraine.

Filed Under: WPLN News Tagged With: Fort Campbell, Ukraine war

As role expands for physician assistants, MTSU program sees wave of applicants

Katherine Ceicys

January 18, 2023

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With a projected 28% increase in “physician assistant” jobs in the next decade, chances are the next time you need medical care, you may be seen by what’s widely known as a “PA.”

Filed Under: Health Care, WPLN News Tagged With: Health Care, Middle Tennessee State University, physician staffing

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