Jason Zimmerman was just 42 years old when he died, and now his dad Mark is saying goodbye at Larkspur Conservation. “He’s a wonderful man,” he says. “Yeah, he was wonderful. He was a great guy. Oh man. He was full of life, full of beans, you know?” Larkspur Conservation is about an hour northeast […]
For baseball historian Skip Nipper, talking to lifelong fans inspires hope of a major league team coming to Nashville
It’s not enough to call Skip Nipper a baseball fan. He’s more like a baseball maestro, a historian, author and a collector of stories. It was his dad who first taught him to play, and he continues that legacy as a member of a handful of groups like the Nashville Old Timers Baseball Association and […]
His mother and sister were murdered. He’s focused his grief on exposing loopholes that endanger domestic violence victims.
Alex Youn has spent the year since his mother and sister’s deaths trying to figure out what went wrong in their case. He discovered loopholes in the criminal justice system, and turned those loopholes into law to protect future domestic violence victims.
It’s tax season! Here’s what stumped ‘This Is Nashville’ listeners when filing their 2021 taxes
Budget Crunch panelists Lucia White, a former bank teller and personal budgeting enthusiast, and Chanon MacDonald, an associate planner at TrustCore pursuing her CFP license, answered listener-generated questions on This Is Nashville.
Curious Nashville: Will traffic ever improve at Bell Road, one of Nashville’s most baffling interstate exits?
Traffic is not really a new story in Nashville, but Rusti Keen says Exit 59 on Interstate 24 is “particularly insane.” So, she came to Curious Nashville with a question.
The case of the missing fang and the meteoric rise of Nashville’s beloved hockey team
This Is Nashville multimedia producer Rose Gilbert heard that the Nashville Predators’ symbol was inspired by a real saber-toothed tiger that once roamed the area we now know as downtown. Her journey to find more took her all the way back to the Ice Age.
Former Tennessee prisons director says ‘truth in sentencing’ bill could balloon prison population and make communities less safe
WPLN criminal justice reporter Samantha Max sat down with This is Nashville host Khalil Ekulona to unpack the so-called “truth in sentencing” bill.
In its final days, The Little Pantry That Could continued to offer more than just groceries
After more than a decade in operation, The Little Pantry That Could had its last shopping day on Saturday. Its closure leaves a hole in the city because for North Nashville, it was more than just a free store.
Nashville is about to invest about $2M in a community-based public safety program. But some anti-violence groups say that’s not enough.
The city has set aside nearly $2 million for a program that treats community conflict like an infectious disease. But as Nashville gets ready to fund this different approach, some residents wonder whether officials are investing enough to set it up for success.
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