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.
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.
East Nashville is getting a new art center. It looks like a ship.
A ship-shaped building in East Nashville will soon be revitalized into a new arts and cultural center. Two nonprofits, the Friends of Shelby Park and Bottoms and the Arts and Business Council of Greater Nashville, announced the project plan Wednesday.
Introducing: Inside the City Council Chambers with Nicole Williams
If you are an everyday, working class Nashvillian, you probably do not have time to go to every single Metro Council meeting.
Nashville invests in women and minority owned businesses. But proposed spending is dwindling.
The city of Nashville is dedicating $111 million for minority and women-owned businesses. City officials are touting their approach, while acknowledging that the number is down significantly from previous years.
‘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.
What we can learn from 8 years of Freddie O’Connell comments to WPLN News
It’s possible that WPLN News has talked to Freddie O’Connell too often over the years. But now that he’s mayor, what can we learn from the last 8 years of his policy stances, quips and quotes?
Nashville’s mayoral finalists both say they’ll pursue a transit referendum. Here’s what they envision.
Among the biggest cities in the U.S., Nashville stands apart because it lacks a dedicated tax to fund transit. Establishing one would likely mean a ballot referendum, put forth by the mayor and decided on by voters. Both mayoral finalists have said they plan to do this.
Can Nashville ever overhaul its transit system? Here’s what the candidates for mayor think.
Five years after a plan to revamp Nashville’s transportation network was defeated, the candidates in this year’s mayoral election are rethinking what public transit looks like in the city as it struggles to support its explosive growth.
The first mayoral debate kicks off the race for Nashville’s next mayor. So far, the expansive field is playing nice.
The race for Nashville’s next mayor is intensifying, as the first mayoral debate was hosted by The Tennessean at Belmont University last night.
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