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Tony Gonzalez

NashVillager Podcast: Violent hate

Tony Gonzalez

January 30, 2025

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How does hate spread, and how does it dissipate? Plus, the local news for January 30, 2025.

Filed Under: History, NashVillager Podcast, WPLN News Tagged With: hate groups, history, Martin Luther King

How Antioch High School is stepping up security and counseling

Tony Gonzalez

January 25, 2025

Class will not feel the same at Antioch High School this week. Metro Nashville Public Schools is implementing new security measures and says students and staff will spend the week focusing on emotional well-being, mental health support and community building.

Filed Under: Criminal Justice, Education, WPLN News Tagged With: Adrienne Battle, Antioch High School, Metro Nashville Public Schools, Metro Schools, MNPS, school safety, surveillance

Winter storm brings challenges — and snow joy — to Tennessee

Cynthia Abrams, Char Daston, Tony GonzalezandRachel Iacovone

January 8, 2025

Life in Middle Tennessee is expected to grind to a halt Friday as a major snowfall sweeps through — the culmination of days of escalating warnings and the potential for 8 inches of snow in some places.

Filed Under: WPLN News Tagged With: Cold weather, National Weather Service, severe weather, snow, TEMA, winter weather

5 stories from WPLN that held powerful institutions accountable in 2024

Tony Gonzalez

December 26, 2024

“A light shining into all dark places” — this is one way to describe the work of investigative journalism, and it’s familiar enough to feel like a cliché. But it’s also fitting for good reason.

Filed Under: WPLN News Tagged With: 2024 Year in Review

NashVillager Podcast holiday edition: Understanding local worries about logging, demolition, and healthcare

Tony Gonzalez

December 23, 2024

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How much can you learn from a single week of WPLN stories?

Filed Under: NashVillager Podcast, WPLN News Tagged With: 2024 Year in Review, Cumberland Plateau, environment, homelessness, TennCare

Nashville’s Cumberland Park becomes ‘Wasioto’ with unanimous vote for the river’s Shawnee name.

Tony GonzalezandCynthia Abrams

December 3, 2024

What has been Cumberland Park since opening in 2012 will now be Wasioto Park — the original Shawnee name for the Cumberland River.

Filed Under: Metro, WPLN News Tagged With: Cumberland River, Indigenous history, Metro Parks

NashVillager Podcast: Fundamental change in store for the East Bank

Tony GonzalezandNina Cardona

November 12, 2024

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Why did Nashville ever let the East Bank get so industrial, anyway? Plus the local news for Nov. 12, 2024.

Filed Under: History, NashVillager Podcast, WPLN News Tagged With: downtown Nashville, East Bank, history, PSC Metals

NashVillager Podcast: A presidential ‘dark horse’

Tony Gonzalez

November 4, 2024

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Who was Tennessee’s “Napoleon of the stump”? Plus the local news for November 4, 2024.

Filed Under: History, NashVillager Podcast, WPLN News Tagged With: James K. Polk

Tennessee statewide turnout down during early voting

Tony Gonzalez

November 3, 2024

Tennessee’s statewide early voter turnout this year was down 2.89% compared to 2020. One key difference was far fewer absentee ballots — down 61% — compared to the special permissions allotted during the pandemic.

Filed Under: Election Live Blog 2024, Politics Tagged With: Early voting, Elections 2024, voting

NashVillager Podcast: Let there be light

Tony Gonzalez

November 1, 2024

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What was the dawn of Nashville’s electric age like? Plus the local news for Nov. 1, 2024.

Filed Under: History, NashVillager Podcast, WPLN News Tagged With: Elections 2024, electricity, Nashville Electric Service

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