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Paige Pfleger

Paige Pfleger covers criminal justice for WPLN News. She has investigated guns and juvenile justice as a fellow with ProPublica's Local Reporting Network, and her investigation into domestic violence and firearms dispossession won a regional Edward R. Murrow award and was a finalist for an Investigative Reporters and Editors Award and a Livingston Award. She previously covered criminal justice and addiction in Ohio and was named the state's reporter of the year by the Associated Press. Her work has appeared nationally on NPR, The Washington Post, Marketplace, and PRI's The World, and she has worked in the newsrooms of The Tennessean, Michigan Radio, WHYY, Vox and NPR headquarters in DC.

Nashville’s Independent Venues Band Together On New COVID Rules

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Some of Nashville’s most well-known independent music venues will require proof of vaccination or a negative COVID test for entry.

Now That The Forrest Bust Has Been Removed, What Confederate Symbols Might Be Next?

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The focus is shifting to other Confederate symbols, and four other campaigns may use the bust’s removal as a roadmap.

Tennessee Removed One Confederate Monument, Yet An Entrenched State Law Still Holds Sway

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The bust of Nathan Bedford Forrest has been removed from the Tennessee State Capitol. But the law passed to protect it is unlikely to change in the near future.

Tennessee Officials Propose How They’re Going To Enforce The New State Law That Limits Teaching Of Race In Schools

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The Tennessee Department of Education put out proposed rules Monday on a new state law that limits teaching race in schools. It spells out how people can file complaints, and what enforcement of the vague law will actually look like.

Nashville Youth Theater Troupe Confronts A Year Behind Screens In ‘Selfie The Musical’

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An original play about what it’s like to be a kid online is being performed in Nashville through Aug. 1. The director of the Theater Bug troupe says this show felt timely, because the pandemic made a generation who grew up online even more reliant on it.

After Decades-Long Fight, Nathan Bedford Forrest’s Bust Is Out Of The Tennessee Capitol

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For decades, activists pushed for the bust of a slave trader and early leader of the Ku Klux Klan to be removed from the state capitol, but a 2013 law made the process lengthy and arduous. On July 22, 2021, the majority of the state building commission voted to move the bust of Nathan Bedford Forrest to the Tennessee State Museum, and it was gone the next morning.

‘I’m Not A Political Operative’: Tennessee’s Ousted Vaccine Official Says Lawmakers’ Opinions Overrode Science

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Fiscus was fired this week and has since landed squarely at the center of a national controversy. She says she was ousted because of an on-going battle between science and politics.

Tennessee’s Ousted Vaccination Chief Blasts Politics Over Teen Vaccines

By Bill Chappell~https://www.npr.org/people/14562108/bill-chappell?ft=nprml&f=1015742588|Paige Pfleger ~http://www.sideeffectspublicmedia.org/node/5200

Accusing state leaders of putting their heads in the sand, Dr. Michelle Fiscus said,”I am ashamed of them. I am afraid for my state.”

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