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HealthQ: What to know when AI joins your next doctor’s appointment

By Katherine Ruppelt, Cara AnthonyandBlake Farmer

March 27, 2026

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Your doctor might ask to have an AI tool listen during your next appointment. Here’s what to know.

Filed Under: Health Care, HealthQ Tagged With: AI, AI Scribe, Health Care

NashVillager Podcast: Three years since Covenant

By Nina Cardona

March 27, 2026

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How are the Covenant School Shooting victims memories being kept alive today? Plus, a roundup of the news for March 27, 2026.

Filed Under: NashVillager Podcast, WPLN News

Will Tennessee block undocumented students from school? Lawmakers divided.

By Camellia Burris

March 27, 2026

Tennessee lawmakers are at odds over a bill that would require schools to track and report students’ immigration status.

Filed Under: Education Tagged With: Bo Watson, Plyler v. Doe, undocumented students, William Lamberth

Nashville’s confidence in its city leaders is wavering, poll finds

By Cynthia Abrams

March 26, 2026

Nashvillians’ confidence in their mayor and Metro Council is dwindling.

Filed Under: Metro, WPLN News Tagged With: Fairgrounds racetrack, Freddie O'Connell, John Geer, Nashville Electric Service, Nashville Metro Council, The Boring Company, Vanderbilt Poll, Winter Storm Fern

Bill to track transgender Tennesseans passes the House

By Marianna Bacallao

March 26, 2026

The state House passed legislation Thursday that would compile data on trans Tennesseans.

Filed Under: Health Care, Politics, Race & Equity, WPLN News Tagged With: 114th Tennessee General Assembly, anti-lgbt legislaton, Dahron Anneliese Johnson, gender-affirming care, Jeremy Faison, lgbt, lgbtq, Tennessee Attorney General, Tennessee Equality Project, tnleg, tnpol, transgender, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, VUMC

NashVillager Podcast: Making more room in the jails

By Nina Cardona

March 26, 2026

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Is Middle Tennessee in a jail-building boom? Plus, a roundup of the news for March 26, 2026.

Filed Under: NashVillager Podcast, WPLN News

Tennessee wants to bury the nation’s nuclear trash. Here’s what to know

By Caroline Eggers

March 26, 2026

Tennessee leaders want the state to house the nation’s nuclear waste trash, and have advanced a resolution to support the effort.

Filed Under: Environment, WPLN News Tagged With: nuclear, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Tennessee Valley Authority, waste

A professor’s quest to bring music and medicine together in the ICU

By Blake Farmer

March 25, 2026

Omar on sax and Charles on bass
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Music therapy has been broadly adopted in healthcare, but live performances rarely make their way into an intensive care unit. Dr. Joseph Schlesinger is hoping to change that.

Filed Under: Features, Health Care Tagged With: Health Care, ICU

Fossil fuel companies will be shielded from climate lawsuits in Tennessee

By Caroline Eggers

March 25, 2026

Tennessee is moving to block climate change lawsuits against fossil fuel companies.

Filed Under: Environment, WPLN News Tagged With: 114th Tennessee General Assembly, Chris Todd, climate change, fossil fuels

NashVillager Podcast: National Medal of Honor Day

By Nina Cardona

March 25, 2026

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How has the nation honored Tennesseans who put their lives on the line to save their companions?Plus, a roundup of the news for March 25, 2026.

Filed Under: NashVillager Podcast, WPLN News

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