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2024 Year in Review

Nashville just had its hottest year on record, for the 2nd year in a row

Caroline Eggers

January 3, 2025

Nashville experienced its hottest year on record in 2024, breaking the record set in 2023.

Filed Under: Environment, WPLN News Tagged With: 2024 Year in Review, drought, heat, severe weather

Nearly two years in, early skeptics help steer East Bank and stadium projects forward

Cynthia Abrams

January 2, 2025

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2025 will mark two years since Nashville passed what was one of the nation’s largest-ever sports subsidies. That contentious deal for a new Tennessee Titans stadium was tied to another major project: development of the East Bank. Here’s where the projects stand.

Filed Under: Metro, WPLN News Tagged With: 2024 Year in Review, East Bank, East Bank Development, Nissan Stadium, Tennessee Titans, Titans stadium

NashVillager Podcast holiday edition: Happy new year!

Miriam Kramer

January 1, 2025

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What were our favorite NashVillager essays of 2024?

Filed Under: NashVillager Podcast, WPLN News Tagged With: 2024 Year in Review, trees

NashVillager Podcast holiday edition: Under the trees

Catherine Sweeney

December 31, 2024

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What are your tree stories? 

Filed Under: NashVillager Podcast, WPLN News Tagged With: 2024 Year in Review, trees

The key question that caused chaos at Metro Arts in 2024

Char Daston

December 31, 2024

Metro Arts Commissioner Leah Dupree Love, Director Daniel Singh, and Commissioner Diana Perez sit in office chairs at a boardroom table in front of a blue wall. The Tennessee flag is on a pole behind them.
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The debate can be summed up like this: should Metro Arts focus its grantmaking on individual artists or arts nonprofits? The issue has divided Nashville’s arts community.

Filed Under: Arts, Culture & Music, Race & Equity, WPLN News Tagged With: 2024 Year in Review, Daniel Singh, Metro Arts, Metro Arts Commission, metro finance, Metro Human Relations Commission, metro legal, Nashville Metro Council

NashVillager Podcast holiday edition: Understanding Nashville through literature

Cynthia Abrams

December 30, 2024

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Fact or fiction?

Filed Under: NashVillager Podcast, WPLN News Tagged With: 2024 Year in Review, books, Nashville authors

A Covenant mom reflects on election ‘déjà vu’

Meribah Knight

December 30, 2024

In the wake of the presidential election, the dynamics at the Tennessee State Capitol captured in the “Supermajority” podcast have taken on new meaning. “I don’t know where I belong,” says Melissa Alexander, “and I think a lot of America, maybe, feels the same way.”   

Filed Under: Politics, WPLN News Tagged With: 2024 Year in Review, Covenant School, Melissa Alexander, supermajority

Crossover made the boundaries of country and roots music a little less clear in 2024

jewly hight

December 29, 2024

Linda Martell — the too-long-overlooked, first Black woman to reach the country charts in the early 1970s — reemerged on Cowboy Carter to drop some wisdom on us this year: “Genres are a funny little concept, aren’t they? Yes, they are.”

Filed Under: Arts, Culture & Music, WPLN News Tagged With: 2024 Year in Review, Americana, Beyonce, country music, cowboy carter, Kacey Musgraves, Linda Martell, Tenille Townes

NashVillager Podcast holiday edition: Inside and outside the statehouse

Marianna Bacallao

December 27, 2024

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What makes our lawmakers tick?

Filed Under: NashVillager Podcast, WPLN News Tagged With: 2024 Year in Review, Politics

How Tennessee’s juvenile justice laws impacted kids in 2024

Paige Pfleger

December 27, 2024

This year started off with a battle in the state legislature. And kids caught up in the justice system are the ones who have dealt with the consequences.

Filed Under: Criminal Justice, Politics, WPLN News Tagged With: 2024 Year in Review, Department of Children's Services, juvenile justice, Richard L. Bean Center, Tennessee Legislature

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