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Nashville enacts guardrails for future police surveillance technology contracts

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

Re-air: Worker safety – A cloud over the construction boom

Mary Mancini

September 3, 2024

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Nashville’s fast-paced growth has changed our city’s skyline and caught national headlines.

Filed Under: Programs Tagged With: Charlie Rodriguez, Cynthia Abrams, Labor Day, Molly Davis, Sandra Sepulveda, Troy Haley, Worker Safety

Worker safety: A cloud over the construction boom

Mary Mancini

July 16, 2024

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Nashville’s fast-paced growth has changed our city’s skyline and caught national headlines.

Filed Under: Programs Tagged With: Cynthia Abrams, Molly Davis, Sandra Sepulveda, Tennessee Department of Labor and Workforce Development

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

The nation reacts to the Tennessee legislature’s expulsion of 2 Black lawmakers

Rachel Iacovone

April 7, 2023

History has its eyes on Tennessee. And so do powerful people — near and far.

Filed Under: Metro, Politics, WPLN News Tagged With: ACLU, Al Gore, Barack Obama, Bernice King, Bob Mendes, Freddie O'Connell, Gloria Johnson, hillary clinton, Joe Biden, Justin Jones, Justin Pearson, Kamala Harris, March For Our Lives, NAACP, Sandra Sepulveda, Zulfat Suara

To diversify Nashville’s boards and commissions, Metro is changing how people get appointed

Ambriehl Crutchfield

January 5, 2023

Metro Councilmember Sandra Sepulveda

Nashville is rewriting rules to make sure the government’s gatekeepers, watchdogs and spenders reflect the city’s population. The moves comes as Metro elected officials have battled for two years about representation on the city’s boards and commissions.  

Filed Under: Metro, WPLN News Tagged With: Metro boards and commissions, NAACP, Sandra Sepulveda, TIRRC

Metro Council looks to shift power and change requirements for appointing boards and commissions

Ambriehl Crutchfield

December 22, 2022

Metro Councilmember Sandra Sepulveda
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Volunteers from the community serve on over 50 boards and commissions. Since 2021, Metro’s elected officials have debated if the city’s boards and commissions reflect Nashville’s population.

Filed Under: Metro, WPLN News Tagged With: Davey Tucker, Jim Shulman, John Cooper, Metro boards and commissions, Metro Human Relations, Sandra Sepulveda, top stories 2022

Nashville wants to expand services in other languages. First up? Spanish.

Ambriehl Crutchfield

September 14, 2022

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Metro Nashville council meetings and more documents are now available in Spanish — the second-most spoken language in the city.

Filed Under: Metro, Race & Equity, WPLN News Tagged With: Arabic, Ginny Welsch, Ricardo Castillo, Sandra Sepulveda, Spanish, translation

After Tennessee guts a Nashville bill protecting construction workers, the mayor decides not to fight back

Ambriehl Crutchfield

April 26, 2022

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Two people died on Nashville construction sites last year.

Filed Under: Metro, WPLN News Tagged With: construction workers, John Cooper, Sandra Sepulveda

Faith-led coalition requests that federal money be spent on affordable housing

Blaise GaineyandRachel Iacovone

October 18, 2021

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Nashville Organized for Action and Hope held its annual meeting to list its requests to officials. Much of it focused on helping fund programs like affordable housing, better pay for school support staff and faster help for those facing eviction.

Filed Under: Education, Metro, Race & Equity, WPLN News Tagged With: affordable housing, evictions, John Cooper, Mayor John Cooper, Metro Nashville Public Schools, Metro Schools, MNPS, Nashville Organized for Action and Hope, NOAH, Sandra Sepulveda

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