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Mayor of Nashville talks leading a blue city inside a red state

Rachel IacovoneWPLN News (File)
Activists march in downtown Nashville in June 2022 as part of a nationwide protest for reproductive rights after a leak from the Supreme Court that suggested Roe v. Wade would be overturned.
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America’s political divide is showing up in the struggle between some Democratic-led cities in Republican-led states.

State governments have preemptively blocked progressive city governments from regulating things like guns, tobacco, and minimum wage.

Freddie O’Connell, the mayor of Nashville, Tennessee, talks about how this power struggle is affecting his city.

This segment aired on February 1, 2024.

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Rachel Iacovone, Director of Multiplatform Publishing

Rachel Iacovone (YAH-kuh-VOAN-ee) is WPLN's Director of Multiplatform Publishing, which is a long way of saying she leads all the ways the news reaches you (this website, social media, This Is Nashville and more). She began her public radio career covering politics in Florida during the 2016 presidential race. In 2019, Rachel came to Nashville as a local Morning Edition, and later All Things Considered, host before her passion for data deep dives, visualizations, photography and social media storytelling pulled her off air and put her online fully.

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