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How is the trash situation in Rutherford County like a messy breakup? For Valentine’s Day, a look into how the love was ...
02/14/2025

How is the trash situation in Rutherford County like a messy breakup?

For Valentine’s Day, a look into how the love was lost between the company that handles most of Middle Tennessee’s household waste and the community that’s home to the massive landfill.

How is the trash situation in Rutherford County like a messy breakup? Plus, the local news for February 14, 2025.

Brookmeade Park reopened this week in West Nashville. It now has gates and security cameras, serving as a reminder of th...
02/14/2025

Brookmeade Park reopened this week in West Nashville. It now has gates and security cameras, serving as a reminder of the contentious removal of a longstanding encampment from the park.

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.

How did the Nashville Student Movement lead the way for Civil Rights action? Today is the anniversary of one of the most...
02/13/2025

How did the Nashville Student Movement lead the way for Civil Rights action? Today is the anniversary of one of the most significant protest actions in our city’s history.

How did the Nashville Student Movement lead the way for Civil Rights action?

ICE says it will now enter schools, churches and hospitals to arrest undocumented immigrants. WPLN’s Char Daston visited...
02/12/2025

ICE says it will now enter schools, churches and hospitals to arrest undocumented immigrants. WPLN’s Char Daston visited a South Nashville health center that’s creating a safe and welcoming place for immigrant patients as it prepares for the new reality.

ICE says it will now enter schools, churches and hospitals. Staff at one clinic is practicing what they’ll do if agents show up.

How is Gov. Bill Lee dividing up state spending in his proposed budget? We’re taking a closer look at what is and isn’t ...
02/12/2025

How is Gov. Bill Lee dividing up state spending in his proposed budget? We’re taking a closer look at what is and isn’t included in the governor’s spending priorities for Tennessee this year.

Plus the local newscast, and this week’s edition of What Where Whens-day.

How is Gov. Bill Lee dividing up state spending in his proposed budget?

The Trump administration aims to slash federal research grants — threatening a source of funding for more than 9,000 job...
02/12/2025

The Trump administration aims to slash federal research grants — threatening a source of funding for more than 9,000 jobs in Tennessee. WPLN's Catherine Sweeney reports the state gets around $700 million a year in National Institutes of Health funding.

The Trump Administration aims to slash federal research grants — threatening a source of funding for more than 9,000 jobs in Tennessee. The Trump Administration announced it would make major cuts to National Institutes of Health grants. Tennessee gets around $700 million a year in NIH funding. The...

Have you heard of “coffin nails” before? On today’s episode, we examine how far the pendulum has swung on ci******es sin...
02/11/2025

Have you heard of “coffin nails” before?

On today’s episode, we examine how far the pendulum has swung on ci******es since Gov. Robert Love Taylor banned them in Tennessee in the 1800s.

Plus, the local newscast and a look inside our trash system.

Have you heard of “coffin nails” before? Plus, the local news for February 11, 2025.

Gov. Bill Lee is looking to address Tennessee's growing population alongside conservation efforts. WPLN's Marianna Bacal...
02/11/2025

Gov. Bill Lee is looking to address Tennessee's growing population alongside conservation efforts. WPLN's Marianna Bacallao reports during his annual State of the State address tonight, Lee laid out next steps for his administration — and touted the results of the recent special session.

Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee is looking to address the state’s growing population alongside conservation efforts. During his annual State of the State address Monday night, Lee laid out next steps for his administration — and touted the results of a special session last month. Lee gained statehouse a...

Residents of Berkshire Place Apartments in East Nashville are finally moving — years after they were first told their un...
02/10/2025

Residents of Berkshire Place Apartments in East Nashville are finally moving — years after they were first told their units would need to be renovated or torn down. 's Tasha A.F. Lemley followed along to learn what’s at stake when an entire community must move.

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.

While awaiting a SCOTUS ruling on gender-affirming care for minors, the DOJ under President Trump has changed its legal ...
02/10/2025

While awaiting a SCOTUS ruling on gender-affirming care for minors, the DOJ under President Trump has changed its legal position to back the state of Tennessee and its ban.

The reversal is in line with an executive order Trump signed last month, which families that left Tennessee have challenged in a separate court case.

The U.S. Department of Justice notified the high court Friday that the U.S. is now backing the state of Tennessee and its ban on care.

Metro Schools may expand the use of a weapon detection system called "Evolv" to all high schools across the district. Th...
02/09/2025

Metro Schools may expand the use of a weapon detection system called "Evolv" to all high schools across the district. The proposal follows a trial run that began at Antioch High School in the wake of a fatal shooting by a student.

The school board is expected to vote Tuesday.

Nashville's school board will vote Tuesday on whether to expand a weapon detection system to all district high schools.

Authorities were alerted to the Antioch High School assailant's threatening and violent behavior long before he fired fa...
02/08/2025

Authorities were alerted to the Antioch High School assailant's threatening and violent behavior long before he fired fatal shots.

ProPublica and WPLN News detail the teen's suspension for threatening a female student with a weapon, and the frustration she felt when he was back days later.

“Y’all failed me, and y’all failed everybody else in the school."

Tennessee authorities were alerted to Solomon Henderson’s threatening and violent behavior long before he brought a gun to Antioch High School. It’s unclear how many red flags were heeded.

Nashvillians gathered this week before the Metro Council to express their wishes for the city budget. WPLN's Cynthia Abr...
02/08/2025

Nashvillians gathered this week before the Metro Council to express their wishes for the city budget. WPLN's Cynthia Abrams reports among individual requests were organizers who showed up en masse to advocate for their respective causes.

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.

Two people are dead and three others are injured after an EF2 tornado struck portions of Morgan County last night. WUOT ...
02/07/2025

Two people are dead and three others are injured after an EF2 tornado struck portions of Morgan County last night. WUOT reports it wove a path of destruction through the rural communities of Deer Lodge and Sunbright.

Two people are dead and three others are injured after an EF2 tornado struck portions of Morgan County on Thursday night, weaving a path of destruction in the rural communities of Deer Lodge and Sunbright.

When someone is ordered to surrender their guns in Tennessee, they can give them to a third party. It’s one of the only ...
02/07/2025

When someone is ordered to surrender their guns in Tennessee, they can give them to a third party. It’s one of the only states that doesn’t require that person to be identified in court. But WPLN's Paige Pfleger reports that could soon change.

Two Republican state lawmakers filed legislation that would change Tennessee’s fi****ms dispossession form, closing a loophole that experts say leaves domestic violence victims vulnerable.

What’s natural and what’s human-made in Tennessee’s aquatic landscape?The state has a lot of lakes, but people made most...
02/07/2025

What’s natural and what’s human-made in Tennessee’s aquatic landscape?

The state has a lot of lakes, but people made most of them to generate electricity. Where does that leave things for the state’s natural water features?

Plus the local news for Friday and a feature on hip hop songwriting in Nashville.

What’s natural and what’s human-made in Tennessee’s aquatic landscape? Plus, the local news for February 7, 2025.

Tennessee schools could refuse to teach undocumented students, under a new proposal from Republican leaders in the state...
02/06/2025

Tennessee schools could refuse to teach undocumented students, under a new proposal from Republican leaders in the statehouse. WPLN’s Marianna Bacallao reports the measure goes against U.S. Supreme Court precedent.

Tennessee schools would be able to refuse undocumented students, under a new proposal from Republican leaders in the statehouse. The measure goes against U.S. S

How does one small campus tell the story of higher education in Nashville? On today's episode, we dig into the history o...
02/06/2025

How does one small campus tell the story of higher education in Nashville?

On today's episode, we dig into the history of Peabody Campus at Vanderbilt University and how it acts as a microcosm for Nashville’s high education landscape.

Plus, the local newscast and the latest on the Metro office looking for solutions to gun violence.

How does one small campus tell the story of higher education in Nashville? Plus, the local news for February 6, 2025.

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