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Is This Thing On?? How Public Radio Reporters Do A Mic Check

Blake Farmer

April 16, 2015

Listen There are countless ways to make sure you’ve got a good level on your microphone. You know the old SNL sketch with Tom Hanks as an Aerosmith roady. “Sibilance, sibilance.”

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Nashville Tire Repair Shops In Demand With Weather-Damaged Roads

David Smith

March 11, 2015

Tennessee highway officials are asking drivers to bear with them until they can get to all of the potholes caused by recent rains and freezing temperatures. TDOT is calling the situation a “worse case” scenario.

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Southern Baptist Leaders To Millennials: Get Married Already

Blake Farmer

February 13, 2015

Listen As the Nashville-based Southern Baptist Convention has continued to resist societal trends like gay marriage and cohabitation, church leaders have decided it’s time to also promote what they consider Biblical marriage. They’re lightly nudging parishioners to stop putting it off.

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Built With Carnegie Money, Nashville’s Oldest Library Celebrates 100 Years

Nina Cardona

February 11, 2015

Nashville’s North Branch Library celebrated its 100th anniversary Wednesday.  It is one of the few libraries built by philanthropist Andrew Carnegie still in operation.

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Vanderbilt Political Scientest Tapped To Help Find End To Human Trafficking

Nina Cardona

February 10, 2015

One Nashville researcher has won a million dollar grant to determine which strategies make a difference in ending human trafficking and forced labor around the world. By some estimates, more than 200-million people, including children, are forced into labor under dire conditions. Last week, at a hearing of the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Tennessee […]

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Campus Culture Defense Didn’t Save Former Vandy Football Players From Rape Conviction

Blake Farmer

January 28, 2015

Updated 10:00 pm Defense attorneys for two former Vanderbilt football players are vowing to appeal the convictions of their clients on charges of rape and sexual assault. They’re also sticking to their argument that campus culture played into a dorm room rape in June of 2013. Jurors had already seen the cell phone video, and […]

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