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Out, About: The sweet origin of a Nashville ice cream company

By Rachel Iacovone

August 2, 2024

I first had Saturated ice cream from a pick-up window at Brightside Bakeshop in the pandemic. I trekked over to the East location in a cloth mask (#tbt) for the pop-up because I was familiar with owner Lokelani Alabanza’s incredible creations at Hattie Jane’s Creamery.

Filed Under: Arts, Culture & Music, Business, NashVillager, Out About, WPLN News Tagged With: food, What Where Whens-day

Tennessee flights, businesses, government offices affected by international tech outage

By Char Daston

July 19, 2024

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Several airlines are unable to take off from Nashville International Airport after a ground stop order from the Federal Aviation Administration.

Filed Under: Business, WPLN News Tagged With: 911, BlueCross BlueShield, Nashville International Airport, technology, Tennessee Department of Finance and Administration, Tennessee Department of Safety, Tennessee Department of Safety and Homeland Security, Williamson County

Goodlettsville-based Dollar General agrees to pay $12M fine to settle alleged workplace safety violations

By The Associated Press

July 17, 2024

Dollar General

The discount retailer and the Occupational Safety and Health Administration reached the settlement to resolve alleged violations that included unsafe storage, blocked emergency exits and fire extinguishers, and inaccessible electrical panels.

Filed Under: Business, WPLN News Tagged With: Dollar General

Report: Tennessee housing market a ‘mixed landscape’

By Tony Gonzalez

July 8, 2024

Nashville new construction duplex

It’s a mixed scorecard for Tennessee’s housing market in the latest quarterly analysis from MTSU’s Business and Economic Research Center.

Filed Under: Business, WPLN News Tagged With: Housing, MTSU

Women’s sports bars are on the rise. Nashville’s will be a first for the South.

By Marianna Bacallao

July 2, 2024

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Nashville’s Chapstick is poised to become the first in the South to join a growing trend of sports bars dedicated to women’s leagues.

Filed Under: Arts, Culture & Music, Business, WPLN News Tagged With: Aftyn Behn, bars, Freddie O'Connell, lgbt, lgbtq, Lipstick Lounge, Nashville Metro Council, Nashville Pride, The Lipstick Lounge

Tractor Supply is ending DEI and climate efforts after conservative backlash online

By The Associated Press

July 1, 2024

The Brentwood-based retailer, which sells products ranging from farming equipment to pet supplies, also said in a statement Thursday that it would withdraw from its carbon emission goals to instead “focus on our land and water conservation efforts.”

Filed Under: Business, Race & Equity, WPLN News Tagged With: diversity, lgbtq, Tractor Supply Company

Supreme Court, siding with Starbucks, makes it harder for NLRB to win court orders in labor disputes

By The Associated Press

June 14, 2024

The Supreme Court has made it harder for the federal government to win court orders when it suspects a company of interfering in unionization campaigns in a case that stemmed from a labor dispute with Starbucks.

Filed Under: Business, WPLN News Tagged With: Associated Press, Labor unions, SCOTUS, Supreme Court, U.S. Supreme Court, union, Unionization

Government sues Ticketmaster owner and asks court to break up company’s monopoly on live events

By The Associated Press

May 23, 2024

The Justice Department has sued Ticketmaster and its parent company, accusing them of running an illegal monopoly over live events in America. The complaint filed Thursday in Manhattan asks a court to break up the system that squelches competition and drives up prices for fans.

Filed Under: Arts, Culture & Music, Business, Politics, WPLN News Tagged With: Department of Justice, Justice Department, Ticketmaster

Oracle’s Larry Ellison says planned Nashville campus will be company’s ‘world headquarters’

By The Associated Press

April 25, 2024

Oracle Corp. Chairman Larry Ellison says the business software giant’s planned campus in Nashville, Tennessee, will serve as its world headquarters and place it in a city that’s a center of the health care industry. Ellison spoke about Oracle’s plans for its Nashville offices during a conversation about health care technology with former U.S. Sen. Bill Frist at the Oracle Health Summit on Tuesday.

Filed Under: Business, Health Care, WPLN News Tagged With: Health Care, Oracle

Tennessee Volkswagen employees overwhelmingly vote to join United Auto Workers union

By Kristin M. Hall, AP

April 20, 2024

Twice in recent years, workers at the Chattanooga plant have rejected union membership. But this time, they voted convincingly for the UAW, which is operating under new leadership directly elected by members for the first time and basking in a successful confrontation with Detroit’s major automakers.

Filed Under: Business, WPLN News Tagged With: Associated Press, Chattanooga, Labor unions, UAW, union, Unionization, United Auto Workers, Volkswagen

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