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Freddie O'Connell

Metro Schools will tap into reserves to sustain pandemic-era programs while many districts face funding cliff

By Alexis Marshall

May 3, 2024

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The district wants to continue providing things like a nurse in every school, high impact tutoring and summer learning camps.

Filed Under: Education, Metro, WPLN News Tagged With: budget, federal funding, Freddie O'Connell, K-12, Metro Nashville Public Schools, public schools

Nashville’s transit plan is nearly 100 pages. Here are 3 things you might have overlooked.

By Cynthia Abrams

April 27, 2024

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New transit centers, park-and-ride facilities and possible housing developments are also part of Nashville’s proposal.

Filed Under: Metro, WPLN News Tagged With: Freddie O'Connell, mass transit, metro, Nashville transit referendum, public transit, public transportation, transit referendum, Transit tax, transportation

Faster buses, more sidewalks, and new transit centers: Details of Nashville’s transit improvement plan revealed

By Cynthia Abrams

April 19, 2024

Mayor Freddie O’Connell unveiled new details of his transit improvement proposal on Friday.

Filed Under: Metro, WPLN News Tagged With: Freddie O'Connell, mass transit, metro, Nashville transit referendum, public transit, public transportation, transit funding, transit referendum, Transit tax, transportation

NashVillager Podcast: April 18, 2024

By Nina Cardona

April 18, 2024

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What’s next for Nashville’s East Bank? 

Filed Under: Metro, NashVillager Podcast, WPLN News Tagged With: East Bank, East Bank Development, Freddie O'Connell

Nashvillians across the political spectrum approve of Mayor Freddie O’Connell. Fewer of them know about his specific projects.

By Cynthia Abrams

April 4, 2024

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Just six months after taking office, Mayor Freddie O’Connell is seeing high approval from Nashvillians across the political aisle. That’s according to the latest Vanderbilt Poll about city subjects.

Filed Under: Metro, WPLN News Tagged With: affordable housing, Bristol Motor Speedway, crime, East Bank, East Bank Development, Education, Fairgrounds racetrack, Freddie O'Connell, growth and development, Nashville Fairgrounds, Vanderbilt, Vanderbilt Poll

Across town without downtown? WeGo rolls out bus changes tied to upcoming North Nashville transit hub

By Cynthia Abrams

April 3, 2024

A host of bus route updates — including a new crosstown route, improved frequency, and expanded WeGo Link service — commenced this week, as Nashville’s WeGo transit agency implemented its spring service changes.

Filed Under: Metro, WPLN News Tagged With: Freddie O'Connell, Nashville transit referendum, North Nashville Transit Center, public transit, transit, transit agencies, transit referendum, WeGo

Ask the Mayor and Votes For Women

By Elizabeth Burton

March 28, 2024

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FOC is back for another edition of Ask the Mayor. Does anyone actually call him FOC?

Filed Under: Ask The Mayor, Programs Tagged With: ask the mayor, Freddie O'Connell, Nashville Public Library, suffrage, voting rights

‘We’ve just got to keep showing up’: Nashvillians gather to support Covenant School on one-year anniversary

By Tony Gonzalez, Rachel Iacovone, Rose GilbertandChar Daston

March 27, 2024

“We find solace in the light that has emerged from the darkness,” reads a statement from the Covenant School acknowledging the community’s support.

Filed Under: Education, WPLN News Tagged With: Covenant School, Freddie O'Connell, mass shooting, Sarah Shoop Neumann, school safety, Voices for a Safer Tennessee

Metro Finance will release long-held arts funding, but will temporarily take over the Metro Arts budget

By Char Daston

March 22, 2024

Finance Director Kevin Crumbo

Nashville artists and arts organizations that have been waiting for months to receive half the grant money promised by Metro Arts in 2023 finally have reason to be hopeful. However, serious questions remain about the future of arts funding in the city.

Filed Under: Arts, Culture & Music, Metro, Politics, Race & Equity, WPLN News Tagged With: Freddie O'Connell, Kevin Crumbo, Metro Arts, Metro Arts Commission, metro finance, Metro Human Relations Commission, metro legal

Nashville’s Family Safety Center marks five years of working with survivors of domestic and sexual violence

By Rose Gilbert

March 20, 2024

About 200 people gathered at Nashville’s Family Safety Center to observe its fifth anniversary working with victims of domestic and sexual violence, child and elder abuse, and human trafficking. Since opening in 2019, they’ve received over 55,000 in-person and remote visits from survivors.

Filed Under: Criminal Justice, WPLN News Tagged With: domestic violence, Freddie O'Connell, Glenn Funk, John Drake, Metro Nashville Office of Family Safety

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