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An audacious quest: Nashville teen tries to ride every city bus route before graduation

By Cynthia Abrams

February 16, 2025

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Thousands of Metro Nashville high schoolers ride the bus for free, but for one senior, the bus has become a passion.

Filed Under: Metro, WPLN News

After two years, Brookmeade Park reopens with new security measures

By Cynthia Abrams

February 13, 2025

City leaders and community members gathered for the reopening of Brookmeade Park in West Nashville. It closed two years ago for renovations and the removal of a longstanding encampment.

Filed Under: Metro, WPLN News Tagged With: Brookmeade Park, homelessness, Metro Parks

What it’s like when an entire Nashville apartment community must move

By Tasha A.F. Lemley

February 7, 2025

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Residents of Berkshire Place Apartments in East Nashville are finally moving — years after they were first told their units would need to be vacated — to relocate to the newly built Birchstone Village in Madison.

Filed Under: Metro, WPLN News Tagged With: affordable housing, East Nashville, Madison, Subsidized housing

Gun violence prevention, transit and housing: what Nashvillians want their city to fund

By Cynthia Abrams

February 6, 2025

Nashvillians gathered this week before the Metro Council to request salary increases for Metro employees and more funding for the arts and affordable housing, among other causes.

Filed Under: Metro Tagged With: Black Nashville Assembly, budget, city budgeting, Delishia Porterfield, gun violence, Metro budget, Nashville Metro Council, public transit, Shift Nashville, Southern Movement Committee, Stand Up Nashville, Tennessee Immigrant and Refugee Rights Coalition, The Equity Alliance

Nashville youth want a solution to gun violence. A new Metro office is looking for one.

By Cynthia Abrams

February 3, 2025

Council members Delishia Porterfield, left, and Zulfat Suara, right, console each other during a vigil for students that were killed and injured during the Antioch High School shooting. Porterfield has been instrumental in getting the Office of Youth Safety off the ground.
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In June, Metro responded to student requests by dedicating $1 million to a new Office of Youth Safety. Now it’s beginning to form as the latest school shooting ripples through Nashville.

Filed Under: Metro, WPLN News Tagged With: Delishia Porterfield, metro, public safety, restorative justice, Southern Movement Committee, Varsity Spending Plan

When it’s this cold in Nashville, the city opens its emergency shelter. Metro has struggled to find someone to run it.

By Cynthia Abrams

January 19, 2025

With freezing temperatures back in Nashville there’s an increased need for shelters to house people experiencing homelessness — particularly after recent concern over how the city-operated shelter is running.  

Filed Under: Metro, WPLN News Tagged With: Cold weather, Cold weather shelter, Emergency shelter, extreme shelter, homelessness, Office of Homeless Services, severe weather, winter weather

Nashville’s airport could become ‘Trump International’ under new bill

By Marianna Bacallao

January 17, 2025

The proposal from Rep. Todd Warner comes two years after statehouse Republican clashed with Nashville over control of its Airport Authority Board.

Filed Under: Metro, Politics, WPLN News Tagged With: 114th Tennessee General Assembly, BNA, Donald Trump, General Assembly, John Lewis, legislature, Nashville International Airport, Tennessee Legislature, tnleg, tnpol, Todd Warner, Zulfat Suara

Nashville wins transit referendum lawsuit. Sales tax will increase on Feb. 1.

By Cynthia Abrams

January 13, 2025

Nashville had already been working to implement its transit overhaul, but that work had been happening as a lawsuit challenging the project’s legality headed to trial.

Filed Under: Metro, WPLN News Tagged With: IMPROVE Act, Nashville transit referendum, transportation

When it snows in Nashville, these streets get cleared first

By Miriam Kramer

January 9, 2025

An interactive map from Metro Nashville shows what streets get priority for snow removal. Explore it now.

Filed Under: Environment, Metro, WPLN News Tagged With: severe weather, snow

Nearly two years in, early skeptics help steer East Bank and stadium projects forward

By Cynthia Abrams

January 2, 2025

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2025 will mark two years since Nashville passed what was one of the nation’s largest-ever sports subsidies. That contentious deal for a new Tennessee Titans stadium was tied to another major project: development of the East Bank. Here’s where the projects stand.

Filed Under: Metro, WPLN News Tagged With: 2024 Year in Review, East Bank, East Bank Development, Nissan Stadium, Tennessee Titans, Titans stadium

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