The plan’s top investments include education and city maintenance — such as upgrades to fire stations, libraries and greenways. It also devotes around $39 million to transit needs and $25 million toward early investments into the East Bank development.
What Nashville’s affordable housing fund has done in its first decade
The Barnes Housing Trust Fund celebrated its 10-year anniversary last week.
With major infrastructure costs and mounting concerns from Indigenous leaders, here’s where the East Bank development stands
This week, city officials offered a rare glimpse into planning for the East Bank development.
Potholes — some as big as ‘craters’ — are Tennessee’s next winter weather hazard
Drivers in Nashville may be sighing with relief as temperatures thaw and residential streets are no longer ice rinks. But there are other — ahem — bumps in the road. As the ice melts, Nashville is beginning to see some new Olympic-size potholes in its roads and highways.
hubNashville launched 7 years ago. Here’s how Metro’s customer service system has evolved over time.
Metro customer services hinges largely on hubNashville, a system where residents can place a huge range of requests. Its usage has tripled in the past five years.
Nashville sued the state four times last year. Here’s where those lawsuits stand today.
The state approved at least seven preemption laws. The city filed lawsuits against four: an attempt to reduce the size of Metro Council by half, the undoing of a charter referendum pertaining to the fairgrounds racetrack demolition and overhauls of the Airport and Sports Authority boards.
Clearer rules and a new app: Angie Henderson’s first triumphs and challenges as Nashville’s vice mayor
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.
After a dramatic 2023 for Nashville’s city government, what’s next in 2024?
As 2023 nears its end, WPLN is looking back at some of its biggest stories of the last year. And, for Nashville’s city government, there is no shortage of pivotal moments — many of which will ripple into the new year, with the new administration.
How the Nashville Public Library brings books to life through puppetry
For close to a century, the Nashville Public Library has been bringing books to life through puppetry. And, today, the puppet troupe is more alive than ever.
What bipartisan interest in involuntary commitment means for the system’s most vulnerable
In a rare show of bipartisanship, Tennessee’s statehouse and Nashville’s city hall are pushing for a change to state law that would make it easier to detain people who are deemed a threat to themselves or others. But experts say that could leave the criminal justice system’s most vulnerable at greater risk.