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Students write letter to city leaders expressing fear amid recent ICE raids

Camellia Burris

May 12, 2025

Empty desks in a classroom

A group of students wrote an open letter to city leaders expressing fear in the wake of recent Immigration and Customs Enforcement raids in South Nashville.

Filed Under: Education, WPLN News Tagged With: Adrienne Battle, Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee, ICE, immigrants, Immigration, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Metro Nashville Public Schools, MNPS, Nashville, raid, school

Downtown Presbyterian Church and the 100th Annual Waffle Shop

Mary Mancini

December 4, 2024

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With only four official floors, Downtown Presbyterian Church (Rep. John Lewis Way and Church St.) used to be one of the tallest buildings in Nashville. Now dwarfed by skyscrapers, her history is way bigger than her small stature.

Filed Under: Programs Tagged With: Downtown Presbyterian Church, Erin Bell, Jim Hoobler, Nashville, Tom Wills, Zach Sasser

In the face of inflation, Nashville tourism breaks records

Cynthia Abrams

May 31, 2024

New numbers indicate the city’s hospitality industry is growing, even as tourism is slowing down across much of the country.

Filed Under: Metro, WPLN News Tagged With: Deanna Ivey, hotel development, Nashville, tourism

Ask not one, but two, mayors!

Mary Mancini

May 30, 2024

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Today, Nashville Mayor Freddie O’Connell and Franklin Mayor Ken Moore will be in the studio to talk about what they’re working on right now and to take calls from listeners.

Filed Under: Programs Tagged With: ask the mayor, Franklin, Freddie O'Connell, Ken Moore, Nashville

hubNashville launched 7 years ago. Here’s how Metro’s customer service system has evolved over time.

Cynthia Abrams

January 21, 2024

Sanitation workers load trash into a garbage truck in Nashville.
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Metro customer services hinges largely on hubNashville, a system where residents can place a huge range of requests. Its usage has tripled in the past five years.

Filed Under: Metro, WPLN News Tagged With: customer service, Freddie O'Connell, hubNashville, Mayor O'Connell, metro, Metro Government, Nashville

Nashville sued the state four times last year. Here’s where those lawsuits stand today.

Cynthia Abrams

January 4, 2024

The state approved at least seven preemption laws. The city filed lawsuits against four: an attempt to reduce the size of Metro Council by half, the undoing of a charter referendum pertaining to the fairgrounds racetrack demolition and overhauls of the Airport and Sports Authority boards.

Filed Under: Metro, Politics, WPLN News Tagged With: 113th Tennessee General Assembly, Airport Authority, Bristol Motor Speedway, Fairgrounds racetrack, metro, Metro Government, Nashville, Preemption, Preemption bills, Sports Authority, state legislature, Tennessee

Deadly tornadoes cause damage across Middle Tennessee

Rachel Iacovone, Catherine Sweeney, Paige Pfleger, Rose Gilbert, Alexis MarshallandNina Cardona

December 9, 2023

Hendersonville, Tennessee storm damage

Deadly tornadoes tore through Middle Tennessee on Saturday, causing damage and power outages for thousands. As of Sunday afternoon, six people were confirmed dead. There were three deaths in Clarksville and three in the Madison area of Nashville. There were also dozens of injuries across the region.

Filed Under: Science, WPLN News Tagged With: clarksville, December 2023 tornadoes, Dickson County, Hendersonville, Nashville, Robertson County, severe weather, tornado

As you like it: Improvised Shakespeare comes to TPAC this weekend

LaTonya Turner

November 10, 2023

The cast of Improvised Shakespeare
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Friends, Nashvillians, countrymen, lend me your ears: The Improvised Shakespeare Company will be at the Tennessee Performing Arts Center for two performances on Nov. 10 and 11. It’s improvised theater — unscripted, unpredictable and funny — using the language and rhymes of Shakespeare.

Filed Under: Arts, Culture & Music, WPLN News Tagged With: Arts, comedy, improv, Improvised Shakespeare, improvised theater, Nashville, performing arts, Shakespeare, Tennessee, theatre, TPAC

Nashville invests in women and minority owned businesses. But proposed spending is dwindling.

Cynthia Abrams

October 11, 2023

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.

Filed Under: Metro, WPLN News Tagged With: black-owned businesses, Business, Businesses, metro, Metro Government, Minority-owned businesses, Nashville, women-owned businesses

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

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

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