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Nashville Metro Council

What is going on with FUSUS?

Elizabeth Burton

January 25, 2024

What’s going on with FUSUS? And how do you even say it?

Filed Under: Citizen Nashville, WPLN News Tagged With: FUSUS, MNPD, Nashville Metro Council, police, surveillance

Clearer rules and a new app: Angie Henderson’s first triumphs and challenges as Nashville’s vice mayor

Char Daston

January 3, 2024

Nashville Metro Council October 2023
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On election night, most people thought Angie Henderson would be giving a concession speech. Incumbent vice mayor Jim Shulman was on the ballot — and incumbent vice mayors in Nashville usually win a second term. Her five-percentage-point victory was an upset even she didn’t see coming.

Filed Under: Metro, Politics, WPLN News Tagged With: Angie Henderson, Jim Shulman, Nashville Metro Council, vice mayor

Metro school board hosted an ‘orientation’ for Metro Council, proactively starting budget conversations

Alexis Marshall

December 13, 2023

Nashville’s Metro Council won’t approve its next budget for months. But last week, Metro Nashville Public Schools’ board members met with council members to proactively start talking about the district’s needs.

Filed Under: Education, Metro, WPLN News Tagged With: 113th Tennessee General Assembly, budget, federal funding, Metro Nashville Public Schools, Nashville Metro Council

Nashville’s Metro Council calls on the state to continue accepting federal education funds

Cynthia Abrams

December 6, 2023

Nashville Metro Council October 2023

Nashville’s Metro Council passed a resolution Tuesday recommending that the state continue to accept federal education funding.

Filed Under: Education, Metro, WPLN News Tagged With: Education, education funds, federal education dollars, federal education spending, Metro Government, Nashville Metro Council

Ratify a vote? Pass a resolution? It might be impossible.

Elizabeth Burton

December 5, 2023

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What do Nashville Metro Council and SAG-AFTRA have in common? They can’t agree on contracts.

Filed Under: Programs Tagged With: inside council chambers, Labor unions, Nashville Metro Council, nicole williams, SAG-AFTRA

Nicole Williams, Jerome Moore and Chris Crofton walk into a studio

Elizabeth Burton

October 26, 2023

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It’s Thursday. We are tired. So, here is some of everything.

Tagged With: chris crofton, diversely segregated, inside council chambers, jerome moore, nashville confidential, Nashville Metro Council, nicole williams

Introducing: Inside the City Council Chambers with Nicole Williams

Elizabeth Burton

October 12, 2023

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If you are an everyday, working class Nashvillian, you probably do not have time to go to every single Metro Council meeting.

Filed Under: Programs Tagged With: Angie Henderson, metro, Nashville Metro Council, Sandra Sepulveda

‘Representation means everything’: Olivia Hill sworn in as Tennessee’s first openly transgender elected official

Marianna Bacallao

October 2, 2023

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Metro Councilmember Olivia Hill made history Monday night as the first openly transgender Tennessean to be sworn into office.

Filed Under: Metro, Politics, WPLN News Tagged With: Dawn Bennett, Freddie O'Connell, lgbtq, metro, Nashville Metro Council, Olivia Hill, The Hermitage Hotel, transgender

As O’Connell takes office, Nashvillians hope for change in all corners of the city

Cynthia Abrams

October 1, 2023

Nashville’s new mayor, Freddie O’Connell, celebrated his inauguration over the weekend. Metro departments, community groups, former mayors and residents gathered downtown to honor the city’s new leader.

Filed Under: Metro, WPLN News Tagged With: Freddie O'Connell, Housing, inauguration, Inauguration Ceremony, mayor, Metro Government, Nashville, Nashville mayor, Nashville Metro Council, Public Square Park

What we can learn from 8 years of Freddie O’Connell comments to WPLN News

Cynthia AbramsandTony Gonzalez

September 26, 2023

Nashville Metro Council
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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?

Filed Under: Metro, WPLN News Tagged With: Demonbroomin, District 19, FOC, Freddie O'Connell, metro, Metro Government, Nashville mayor, Nashville mayor 2023, Nashville Metro Council, Salemtown

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