Nashville high schools will have at least two permanent school resource officers, and magnets will have regular visits. A few middle schools have permanent SROs, and others will have rotating coverage.
They lost TennCare when paperwork was sent to a pasture, signaling the mess to come
Three years ago, Mason Lester, a rambunctious toddler, tumbled off his family’s porch and broke his wrist. His mother, nine months pregnant, rushed him to a nearby hospital, where she made a confounding discovery: Their health insurance had vanished.
Nashville Youth Poet Laureate’s debut work traces her maternal line through Tennessee civil rights, reconstruction and slavery
The dawn of civilization can be traced back roughly 400 generations. That means there are roughly 400 mothers between you and the beginning of human history.
With Roe v. Wade gone, we want to hear your stories about getting healthcare in Middle Tennessee
We want to hear your stories about life after Roe v. Wade. Have you faced any obstacles receiving reproductive care, including contraceptives? Have you had to travel out of state to receive abortion care? Are you currently pregnant and concerned about giving birth in Tennessee?
As students return to classrooms, it’s Tennessee elementary schools that have added the most school resource officers
It’s back to school for students across Tennessee, and safety is top of mind after a shooting at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas. That has reopened the discussion about school safety, and resource officers.
Metro will reconsider a proposal to host the Republican National Convention, but it might be too late
The idea of the Republican National Convention coming to Nashville is not totally off the table.
Vanderbilt reports a rare cluster of viral infections, likely linked to COVID precautions
Vanderbilt Children’s Hospital has seen an unexplained cluster of viral infections in infants under three months old in what is likely one more example of COVID precautions changing how another virus spreads.
In a new memoir in verse, Alora Young traces the lives of generations of Black women
She’s 19, and the current Youth Poet Laureate of the Southern United States. Her debut book Walking Gentry Home archives her family’s history – and the legacy of slavery in the American South – in the form of a memoir in verse.
Tennessee’s abortion ban has some employers rethinking benefits, and some employees looking to relocate
Lyndsay Kash works at the clothing shop Marine Layer in the 12 South shopping district. When she saw the news that Roe v. Wade was overturned, she was shocked.
Tennessee will create 60 new childcare centers with some of the final COVID stimulus money
The YMCA and the Boys & Girls Club are planning nearly 10,000 new childcare spots across Tennessee with the state’s help. The money is coming from what’s left of COVID stimulus funding.
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