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Nashville Metro Council

Metro Council approves emergency $10M for Nashville General Hospital while settling with ousted CEO

By Cynthia Abrams

April 3, 2025

Two significant decisions regarding Nashville General Hospital have been finalized.

Filed Under: Health Care, Metro, WPLN News Tagged With: Courtney Johnston, Dr. Joseph Webb, Kyonzte Toombs, Nashville General Hospital, Nashville Metro Council

Nashville enacts guardrails for future police surveillance technology contracts

By Cynthia Abrams

March 21, 2025

With guardrails now in place, Nashville’s mayor is considering a new contract with police surveillance technology Fusus, which would need Metro Council approval.

Filed Under: Metro, WPLN News Tagged With: FUSUS, Metro Nashville Police Department, Metro Police, MNPD, Nashville Metro Council, Nashville police, Sandra Sepulveda

Oversight of Nashville’s historic buildings shifts as officials mull local and state measures

By Cynthia Abrams

March 19, 2025

Restaurants and bars along Lower Broadway

Nashville’s Metro Council advanced a bill that would move Metro’s Historic Zoning Commission under the city’s Planning Department.

Filed Under: Metro, WPLN News Tagged With: Emily Benedict, Metro Historical Commission, Nashville Metro Council, preservation

Gun violence prevention, transit and housing: what Nashvillians want their city to fund

By Cynthia Abrams

February 6, 2025

Nashvillians gathered this week before the Metro Council to request salary increases for Metro employees and more funding for the arts and affordable housing, among other causes.

Filed Under: Metro Tagged With: Black Nashville Assembly, budget, city budgeting, Delishia Porterfield, gun violence, Metro budget, Nashville Metro Council, public transit, Shift Nashville, Southern Movement Committee, Stand Up Nashville, Tennessee Immigrant and Refugee Rights Coalition, The Equity Alliance

Metro Arts is, once again, without a leader

By Char Daston

January 13, 2025

A woman in a textured yellow and brown blouse with braided hair in a topknot talks into a microphone.

Paulette Coleman took over after last year’s chaotic grants cycle. Her resignation means Metro Arts has to navigate a precarious situation without its director.

Filed Under: Arts, Culture & Music, Race & Equity, WPLN News Tagged With: Metro Arts, Metro Arts Commission, metro finance, Metro Human Relations Commission, metro legal, Nashville Metro Council, Paulette Coleman

The key question that caused chaos at Metro Arts in 2024

By Char Daston

December 31, 2024

Metro Arts Commissioner Leah Dupree Love, Director Daniel Singh, and Commissioner Diana Perez sit in office chairs at a boardroom table in front of a blue wall. The Tennessee flag is on a pole behind them.
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The debate can be summed up like this: should Metro Arts focus its grantmaking on individual artists or arts nonprofits? The issue has divided Nashville’s arts community.

Filed Under: Arts, Culture & Music, Race & Equity, WPLN News Tagged With: 2024 Year in Review, Daniel Singh, Metro Arts, Metro Arts Commission, metro finance, Metro Human Relations Commission, metro legal, Nashville Metro Council

After a year of uncertainty, Nashville’s council rejects ‘Fusus’ police surveillance tool

By Cynthia Abrams

December 5, 2024

Nashville Metro Council October 2023
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After nearly a year of debate, Nashville’s Metro Council has officially rejected Fusus, a police surveillance technology.

Filed Under: Metro, WPLN News Tagged With: FUSUS, Metro Nashville Police Department, MNPD, Nashville Metro Council, Nashville police, police funding

Profile: Councilmember At Large Zulfat Suara

By Mary Mancini

September 30, 2024

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Zulfat Suara made a remarkable entry into politics in 2019 by winning one of only five at-large seats on the Metro Council, becoming the first Muslim women elected in Tennessee and the first Nigerian woman to hold office in the United States.

Filed Under: Programs Tagged With: Nashville Metro Council, Zulfat Suara

Hate group encounters spur policy ideas from Nashville’s Metro Council

By Cynthia Abrams

September 5, 2024

Nashville Metro Council October 2023
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“We know that political tensions are high,” said Mayor O’Connell, “and this legislation, we hope, will discourage behavior that can spark violence.”

Filed Under: Metro, WPLN News Tagged With: Freddie O'Connell, hate groups, Nashville Metro Council, neo-nazi, public safety

Metro Council will stay at 40 members as Nashville notches legal victory over state

By Cynthia Abrams

July 30, 2024

Nashville Metro Council October 2023

Nashville’s city council will remain at 40 members after a three-judge panel struck down a state law that would have slashed the council in half.

Filed Under: Metro, WPLN News Tagged With: Nashville Metro Council, Preemption bills, tennessee state legislature

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