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Delishia Porterfield

What’s the fuss with Fusus?

By Elizabeth Burton

January 31, 2024

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Somebody’s eyes are watching you.

Filed Under: Citizen Nashville, Programs Tagged With: Delishia Porterfield, FUSUS, MNPD, Nashville Metro Council

Progressives, women win at-large council seats

By Char Daston

September 14, 2023

Delishia Porterfield, Quin Evans-Segall, Burkley Allen and Olivia Hill have won the four remaining at-large Metro Council seats. Hill leads fifth place finisher Chris Cheng by nearly 1400 votes. A navy veteran, she will be the first openly transgender elected official in Nashville history. Porterfield, currently the councilmember for District 29, and Evans-Segall, vice-chair of […]

Filed Under: Politics, WPLN News Tagged With: Burkley Allen, Delishia Porterfield, Olivia Hill, Quin Evans-Segall

Metro Council introduces a plan to reconstruct Nashville’s Community Oversight Board after state’s effort to abolish it

By Rose Gilbert

June 9, 2023

Five Metro Council members have introduced a plan to reconstruct Nashville’s Community Oversight Board in the wake of a new law to abolish such boards as they currently exist in Tennessee.

Filed Under: Criminal Justice, Metro, WPLN News Tagged With: Burkley Allen, community oversight board, Delishia Porterfield, Jeff Syracuse, Nashville Metro Council, sean parker, Zulfat Suara

The battle between state Republicans and Nashville is coming to a head

By Blaise Gainey

February 15, 2023

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Republicans in the Tennessee General Assembly seem to have it out for Davidson County this session. They’ve introduced several bills that would hand over power of local boards to the state, make it harder for Nashville to pay for their convention center, and slice the size of the Metro Council in half.

Filed Under: Politics, WPLN News Tagged With: 113th Tennessee General Assembly, Cameron Sexton, Charlane Oliver, Delishia Porterfield, Harold Love Jr., legislature, Metro Sports Authority, Nashville Metro Council, Tanaka Vercher, Tennessee Legislature, tnleg, tnpol, Vincent Dixie, William Lamberth

4 races to watch in next month’s primaries for the Tennessee legislature

By Chas SiskandJulia Ritchey

July 13, 2022

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All 99 seats in the Tennessee House of Representatives and half of the 33 seats in the state Senate are on the ballot. In many cases, incumbents are a lock to win their primary and proceed on to November, but there are still a few races worth watching. Here’s what you need to know about them.

Filed Under: News Hits, Politics, WPLN News Tagged With: Delishia Porterfield, Elections 2022, Glen Casada, Gloria Johnson, Justin Jones, Laurie Cardoza-Moore, Tennessee Politics, tnpol

The Latest: Nashville Police Launch Internal Investigation Into Handling Of Christmas Day Bombing

By Samantha MaxandAmbriehl Crutchfield

January 4, 2021

Nashville Police Chief John Drake
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Nashville’s police chief has repeatedly said the department responded to a 2019 report about Anthony Warner as thoroughly as it could at the time, and that it acknowledged the report quickly as it could after the Christmas Day bombing. But the police department is now creating an “after-action report” to determine whether it made mistakes.

Filed Under: Criminal Justice, WPLN News Tagged With: Delishia Porterfield, John Drake, Nashville Christmas blast, TBI

Emotions Rise As Nashville’s Council Tries To Respond To Vandalism And Violent Policing

By Tony Gonzalez

June 10, 2020

Nashville riot damage

The acts of vandalism that broke out last month in downtown Nashville are still sowing division, this time with emotional members of the Metro Council. They debated just after midnight Wednesday over whether — or how to — condemn the property damage. 

Filed Under: Metro, WPLN News Tagged With: Delishia Porterfield, Nancy VanReece, Nashville Metro Council, Robert Swope

Newest Metro Council Member Wins By 25 Votes

By Tony Gonzalez

March 20, 2019

Listen The Metro Council has its newest member from District 29, chosen Tuesday night by a narrow margin.

Filed Under: WPLN News Tagged With: Delishia Porterfield, Elections 2019

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