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A late-night spot for Ramadan and beyond: Nashville’s Muslim-owned coffeeshops stay open, sans alcohol

By Rachel Iacovone

March 14, 2025

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A handful of Muslim-owned shops in Nashville want to make sober nightlife cafe culture a year-round thing.

Filed Under: Arts, Culture & Music, Business, Race & Equity, WPLN News Tagged With: coffee, Muslim, Palestine, Ramadan, religion, Yemen

A fair housing nonprofit secured upgrades at TN apartments. But federal funding cuts could stall their work.

By Cynthia Abrams

March 13, 2025

The modifications come after Gross Residential — an Ohio-based company that develops, constructs and manages retail properties — reached a conciliation agreement with two fair housing nonprofits.

Filed Under: Business, Metro, Race & Equity, WPLN News Tagged With: Americans with Disabilities Act, Fair Housing Act, federal funding, federal funding freeze, Housing, HUD, National Fair Housing Alliance, Tennessee Fair Housing Alliance, Tennessee Fair Housing Council, Trump Administration, US Department of Housing and Urban Development

How major players in bourbon are responding to a shift in business

By Breya Jones, LPM

March 3, 2025

After leaning into a bourbon identity, Louisville’s future of high proof jobs and tourism looks a bit murky.

Filed Under: Arts, Culture & Music, Business, WPLN News Tagged With: Appalachia + Mid-South Newsroom, bourbon, Kentucky Public Radio, liquor stores, Louisville Public Media

AEG makes its mark on Music City with its first Nashville venue, The Pinnacle

By Justin Barney

February 27, 2025

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While it can seem commonplace for another venue to open here, The Pinnacle is more than a venue; it is the physical manifestation of corporate synergy in the live music experience. And it’s a big play for AEG.

Filed Under: Arts, Culture & Music, Business, WNXP Tagged With: AEG, Live Nation, music venues, The Pinnacle, Ticketmaster

Tennessee legislation pushes for recycling overhaul amid looming landfill closures

By Pierce Gentry, WUOT

February 20, 2025

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Every year, Tennessee sends nearly one million tons of recyclable materials worth $150 million to its landfills, contributing to a growing waste crisis. One state lawmaker is turning to a solution that’s been used in Europe since the 1990s: Extended Producer Responsibility, or EPR.

Filed Under: Business, Environment, Politics, WPLN News Tagged With: Appalachia + Mid-South Newsroom, EPR, extended producer responsibility, landfill, Recycling

An unwanted double: US sales fall for American whiskeys as threats of a trade war heat up

By Bruce Schreiner, AP

February 12, 2025

Talk of tariffs cast a shadow over the Distilled Spirits Council’s report on 2024 U.S. spirits sales. The report, released Tuesday, showed a drop in domestic sales for the American whiskey category, which includes bourbon, rye whiskey and Tennessee whiskey.

Filed Under: Business, WPLN News Tagged With: alcohol, Associated Press, tariffs, whiskey

Japanese court upholds conviction of American who helped fugitive former Nissan chief hide pay

By Yuri Kageyama, AP

February 4, 2025

Greg Kelly, a lawyer and former executive vice president at Nissan Motor Corp, was convicted in 2022 on charges related to only one of eight years during which prosecutors said he under-reported Chairman Carlos Ghosn’s income.

Filed Under: Business, WPLN News Tagged With: Associated Press, Nissan

Bridgestone announces a tire plant closure in Tennessee with 700 layoffs and other reductions.

By The Associated Press

January 24, 2025

The LaVergne plant was the first tire-producing facility in North America for the Bridgestone Corporation. The company stopped making tires for cars and light trucks at the plant in 2009.

Filed Under: Business, WPLN News Tagged With: Bridgestone, Rutherford County

Labor Department puts spotlight on child labor in slaughterhouses with 3 settlements this week

By Josh Funk, AP

January 16, 2025

To Debbie Berkowitz, who was a top OSHA official in the Obama administration, the flurry of announcements this week helps solidify the Biden administration’s legacy of trying to “stamp out child labor in this very dangerous meat and poultry industry” while putting the new administration on notice.

Filed Under: Business, WPLN News Tagged With: Associated Press, child labor, Department of Labor and Workfo, Labor

US Justice Department accuses six major landlords of scheming to keep rents high

By Jesse Bedayn, AP

January 8, 2025

While the housing crisis has been assigned several causes, including a slump in homes built over the last decade, the Justice Department’s lawsuit claims major landlords are playing a part.

Filed Under: Business, Politics Tagged With: Associated Press, Renters

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