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Nashville enacts guardrails for future police surveillance technology contracts

By 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

Nashville joins lawsuit against Trump administration over transit funding

By Cynthia Abrams

March 20, 2025

Metro has joined a federal lawsuit attempting to halt the Trump administration’s federal funding freeze on various community programs — which, for Nashville, puts $14 million in transit and infrastructure projects at risk.

Filed Under: Metro, WPLN News Tagged With: bike lanes, electric vehicles, federal funding, federal funding freeze, Metro Schools, Nashville transit referendum, Wally Dietz

Oversight of Nashville’s historic buildings shifts as officials mull local and state measures

By Cynthia Abrams

March 19, 2025

Restaurants and bars along Lower Broadway

Nashville’s Metro Council advanced a bill that would move Metro’s Historic Zoning Commission under the city’s Planning Department.

Filed Under: Metro, WPLN News Tagged With: Emily Benedict, Metro Historical Commission, Nashville Metro Council, preservation

If ICE tries to arrest immigrants at government offices, how will employees respond?

By Char Daston

March 17, 2025

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State and Metro Nashville employees have received very different instructions on how to respond to this scenario.

Filed Under: Metro, Politics, WPLN News Tagged With: Freddie O'Connell, ICE, Immigration, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, metro legal, Metro Nashville, Tennessee Department of Human Services

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

Encore: As Nashville’s ‘Black Bottom’ gets historical marker, we’re revisiting this Curious Nashville story

By Tony Gonzalez

March 11, 2025

The low-lying area of downtown Nashville that’s south of Broadway and along the Cumberland River was once known as “Black Bottom” and will get a historical marker.

Filed Under: Metro, WPLN News Tagged With: Curious Nashville, historical markers, history, Nashville neighborhoods

Nashville mayor airs concerns as federal funding uncertainty persists

By Cynthia Abrams

March 10, 2025

As the Trump administration takes an ax to federal government spending, Nashville’s mayor is sounding the alarm that many Metro departments are at risk of losing millions in federal funds.

Filed Under: Metro, WPLN News Tagged With: federal education dollars, federal education funding, federal funding, federal funding freeze, Freddie O'Connell, President Trump, Trump Administration

Nashville’s property reassessment is underway. Here’s what that means for your tax bills — and city revenues.

By Cynthia Abrams

March 10, 2025

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For all property owners in Nashville, it’s a big year. That’s because it’s time for the city’s property reassessment.

Filed Under: Metro, WPLN News Tagged With: Metro budget, Nashville real estate, property reappraisal, property taxes

Smart signals, a new transit center and security upgrades: First projects out of Nashville’s transit referendum take shape

By Cynthia Abrams

March 7, 2025

Nashville Access Ride bus

The first 11 transit and infrastructure projects to come out of the city’s transit overhaul have been announced.

Filed Under: Metro, WPLN News Tagged With: Nashville transit, Nashville transit referendum, sales tax, transit

‘We don’t want people to stop calling.’ This police commander says immigrants’ trust is key to his work

By Char Daston

February 18, 2025

A man in a police uniform with a shaved head sits behind a microphone in a radio studio.
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Carlos Lara leads Nashville’s Southeast Precinct, where he serves some of Nashville’s largest immigrant communities.

Filed Under: Criminal Justice, Metro, Race & Equity, WPLN News Tagged With: Immigration, Metro Nashville Police Department

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