As coronavirus continues to impact and alter all of our daily lives, we’ve been asking listeners to send us their musings, their thoughts on life in this current moment.
A Nashville Testimonial And The Surge In Unemployment
Andrea Howat works as a tour manager in Nashville. As part of our new series “Dispatches from Quarantine,” Howat sent WPLN News a voice message about losing work and trying to find some sanity amidst the stress of coronavirus.
When The Winds Came: A Nashville Reporter In The Middle Of The Tornado
The winds came with little warning in the early hours of March 3 — Super Tuesday.
In Search Of Cheaper Rent, Residents In One Rural Community Find They’ve Left Protections Behind
In 2016, after being priced out of Nashville, Nicole Burgeson and her family moved into a house in Shelbyville, a city in Bedford County. “It was an older home, we thought, you know all it needed was a slap of paint, the carpets cleaned and it would be all right,” she says. She soon discovered […]
Teaching Students To ‘Stop And Breathe’ Is Transforming One East Nashville Elementary School
It starts first thing in the morning, when the principal of Warner Arts Magnet Elementary School, Ricki Gibbs, comes over the loudspeaker.
Many Nashville Children Feel A Lack Of Trust In Their Neighborhoods, New Study Shows
An ambitious, years-long study conducted by Vanderbilt University is tracking public school children across Nashville, asking them about life in their neighborhoods. The first year revealed that many do not feel their neighbors trust, or support one another.





