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NashVillager Podcast: Tennessee’s history-making gun

By Nina Cardona

May 15, 2026

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What’s behind all the drama in the Rutherford County Assessor’s office? Plus, the local news for May 13, 2026.

Filed Under: NashVillager Podcast, WPLN News Tagged With: firearms, history, Military, military weapon, Tennessee

NashVillager Podcast: Tennessee and Israel

By Nina Cardona

May 14, 2026

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What’s behind all the drama in the Rutherford County Assessor’s office? Plus, the local news for May 13, 2026.

Filed Under: NashVillager Podcast, WPLN News Tagged With: history, Israel, Tennessee

NashVillager Podcast: A taxation soap opera

By Nina Cardona

May 13, 2026

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What’s behind all the drama in the Rutherford County Assessor’s office? Plus, the local news for May 13, 2026.

Filed Under: NashVillager Podcast, WPLN News Tagged With: history, property tax, Rutherford County, taxes

NashVillager Podcast: Hard-to-swallow tax bills

By Nina Cardona

May 12, 2026

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What’s driving up property tax bills in so many Middle Tennessee communities? Plus, the local news for May 12, 2026.

Filed Under: NashVillager Podcast, WPLN News Tagged With: history, property tax, taxes

Remembering the bygone days of a legendary Appalachian steam locomotive

By Curtis Tate

May 12, 2026

Big Emma 1977 hauls empty coal cars from Winchester to Ravenna, Kentucky, in June 1956. The big locomotive was retired that year and scrapped in 1959.

Longtime Louisville & Nashville Railroad employee Charles Castner died last month at the age of 97. He co-wrote a book in 2024 on one of L&N’s most powerful steam locomotives, the Big Emma.

Filed Under: Arts, Culture & Music, WPLN News Tagged With: Appalachia + Mid-South Newsroom, history, rail, Trains

NashVillager Podcast: Tolbert Fanning and the Church of Christ

By Nina Cardona

May 11, 2026

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Who was Senator Anna Belle Clement O’Brien? Plus, the local news for May 6, and this week’s edition of What Where Whens-day.

Filed Under: NashVillager Podcast, WPLN News Tagged With: Church of Christ, David Lipscomb, Disciples of Christ, history, religion, Restoration Movement, Tolbert Fanning

NashVillager Podcast: Radio Free Nashville

By Nina Cardona

May 8, 2026

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How did one Nashville institution once make a place where radical voices could speak freely? Plus, the local news for May 8, 2026.

Filed Under: NashVillager Podcast, WPLN News Tagged With: Fisk Jubilee Singers, Fisk University, history, jazz, Mozart, WFSK

NashVillager Podcast: The Congressional maps just keep on changing (except for when they didn’t)

By Nina Cardona

May 7, 2026

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How long have Tennessee’s political maps been gerrymandered? Plus, the local news for May 7.

Filed Under: NashVillager Podcast, Politics, WPLN News Tagged With: Gerrymandering, history, memphis, redistricting, special session, Tennessee General Assembly

NashVillager Podcast: The first lady of Tennessee politics

By Nina Cardona

May 6, 2026

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Who was Senator Anna Belle Clement O’Brien? Plus, the local news for May 6, and this week’s edition of What Where Whens-day.

Filed Under: NashVillager Podcast, Politics, WPLN News Tagged With: Anna Belle Clement O'Brien, history

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