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Metro Nashville

What to know about Elon Musk’s Nashville tunnel project

By Marianna Bacallao

August 26, 2025

Here’s everything we know so far about the Boring Company’s proposed “Music City Loop” in Nashville.

Filed Under: Metro, Politics, WPLN News Tagged With: Bill Lee, Elon Musk, Freddie O'Connell, Justin Jones, Metro Nashville, Music City Center, Nashville International Airport, The Boring Company, tunnels, xAi

Tennessee schools are updating classroom cellphone policies as required by new law

By Camellia Burris

July 30, 2025

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While the law gives latitude to local school boards, educators and policy experts insist that restricting cellphone use in schools improves social skills and keeps students safer in the event of an emergency.

Filed Under: Education, WPLN News Tagged With: Appalachia + Mid-South Newsroom, Cheatham County, Education, Metro Nashville, Metro Nashville Public Schools, Rutherford County Schools, Wilson County Schools

If ICE tries to arrest immigrants at government offices, how will employees respond?

By Char Daston

March 17, 2025

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State and Metro Nashville employees have received very different instructions on how to respond to this scenario.

Filed Under: Metro, Politics, WPLN News Tagged With: Freddie O'Connell, ICE, Immigration, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, metro legal, Metro Nashville, Tennessee Department of Human Services

City will cut trees near Nashville Symphony to evict purple martins — again

By Caroline Eggers

March 18, 2024

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Last summer, thousands of purplish, sparkly birds descended in tight, spinning columns onto the branches of 10 trees by the Schermerhorn Symphony Center. This was their home away from home, a safe place for them to assemble before migrating to South America, and also a spectacle for passersby in recent years. 

Filed Under: Environment, WPLN News Tagged With: Birds, conservation, Metro Nashville, Nashville Symphony, purple martins

You hold the purse strings: Nashvillians can vote now on 35 neighborhood projects vying for funding

By Cynthia Abrams

October 8, 2023

Voting is open for Davidson County residents who want a say in how to spend $10 million in the city’s expanded “participatory budgeting” process.

Filed Under: Metro Tagged With: budgeting, city budgeting, city funding, city funds, Davidson County, Metro Council district, Metro Government, Metro Nashville, Metro Parks, Nashville, neighborhood projects, parks, participatory budgeting, traffic, traffic calming

The first mayoral debate kicks off the race for Nashville’s next mayor. So far, the expansive field is playing nice.

By Cynthia Abrams

May 19, 2023

The race for Nashville’s next mayor is intensifying, as the first mayoral debate was hosted by The Tennessean at Belmont University last night.

Filed Under: Metro, WPLN News Tagged With: American Baptist College, Belmont University, community oversight board, debate, League of Women Voters, lgbt, lgbtq, mayoral debate, Mayoral Race 2023, metro, Metro Nashville, Nashville mayor, Nashville mayoral race, NewsChannel 5, The Tennessean

Second Avenue to reopen to traffic a year after Christmas Day bombing

By Julia Ritchey

December 23, 2021

One year after a bomb went off destroying a block of Second Avenue, the city will reopen the street to traffic and pedestrians — though not nearly back to normal.

Filed Under: Metro, WPLN News Tagged With: Christmas bombing, Metro Nashville, redevelopment, second avenue, traffic

Nashville is rated as the most equitable city in the state for LGBTQ people, but could do better by transgender residents

By Paige Pfleger

November 18, 2021

Nashville is the only Tennessee city rated above the national average in the latest Municipal Equality Index from the Human Rights Campaign. But it still has room for improvement — especially when it comes to providing resources to transgender residents.

Filed Under: Arts, Culture & Music, Race & Equity, WPLN News Tagged With: equity, human rights campaign, lgbtq, Metro Human Relations Commission, Metro Nashville, transgender

Nashville is doling out $5,000 to groups to curb community violence. Some say it’s far too little.

By Samantha Max

November 5, 2021

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This year, Nashville set aside about $2 million for nonprofit groups working to prevent violence. The new line item in the budget comes at a time when shootings are spiking, both by residents and by police.

Filed Under: Criminal Justice, WPLN News Tagged With: gun violence, Metro Nashville, Metro Nashville Police Department, public safety

After Securing A Major Raise, Nashville Teachers Still Weigh What Kind Of Difference It Will Make

By Juliana Kim

June 30, 2021

Ever since becoming a teacher at Metro Nashville Public Schools, Teneice Kirby had to choose between paying off her student loans or buying groceries. But, with the newly approved teacher raise, Kirby says she can now afford both.

Filed Under: Education, Metro, WPLN News Tagged With: metro, Metro Nashville, Metro Nashville Public Schools, Metropolitan Nashville Public Schools, MNPS, Nashville Metro Council, public schools

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