For the first time, a Nashville program known as “participatory budgeting” has gone citywide, giving residents a say in how to spend $10 million. But, as residents cast their ballots, the program has encountered several hurdles.
A new East Bank neighborhood, more bike lanes and a better hubNashville app — these are on the wishlist from Mayor O’Connell’s transition team
Nashville Mayor Freddie O’Connell has received recommendations from the transition committees he convened in September to examine how Nashville should “move, grow and work.”
After years of preservation efforts, downtown Nashville’s Morris Memorial Building heads toward redevelopment
One of downtown Nashville’s oldest buildings looks to be headed for redevelopment, as a hotel-development company is currently under contract to acquire the building.
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Guitarist, singer, Beatles fan: Remembering Belmont University student killed by stray bullet
A Belmont University student who was struck by a stray bullet near campus on Tuesday afternoon has died from her injuries. The Metro Nashville Police Department announced her death Thursday morning.
Seven Nashville police officers have been taken out of the field, following a leak of Covenant shooting documents
Nashville’s police department has taken multiple officers out of the field, after an apparent leak of journal pages left by the assailant of the Covenant School shooting.
Science backs Mayor O’Connell’s later school start time policy. Critics say it’s a logistics problem.
Since his election in September, Mayor Freddie O’Connell has announced that pushing back school start times is a cornerstone of the education policy he is promoting. He and others around the country have been trying to stress that teenagers aren’t lazy or to blame for getting too little sleep. It’s science.
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Today, Mayor Freddie O’Connell joins us in studio for the first iteration of Ask the Mayor. Once a month, Mayor O’Connell will join This Is Nashville to answer your questions live on air. We’ll be taking phone calls and give Nashvillians the chance to have a direct conversation with the mayor.
Nashville’s Metro Council jumps right into business in its first meeting of the term
Nashville’s newly elected Metro Council wasted no time, as it kicked off its term Tuesday night.
‘Representation means everything’: Olivia Hill sworn in as Tennessee’s first openly transgender elected official
Metro Councilmember Olivia Hill made history Monday night as the first openly transgender Tennessean to be sworn into office.
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