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December 2, 2025: Jewish Nashville
The South is sometimes assumed to be a monoculture. But that’s not certainly not true … and it never has been.
Plus, the local news for December 2, 2…
8 months, 2 weeks ago
December 1, 2025: Big banks getting bigger
Banks used to be very local institutions, but these days they seem to get bigger and bigger. Plus the local news for December 1, 2025 and the latest …
8 months, 2 weeks ago
November 26, 2025: Establishing the Thanksgiving holiday
In an era when national holidays were rare, what did it take for Thanksgiving to make the cut?
Presidents George Washington and Abraham Lincoln play …
8 months, 3 weeks ago
November 25, 2025: A Civil War turning point
On this day, the Union broke the Confederate siege of Chattanooga by storming Missionary Ridge, which some describe as the “death knell” of the Confe…
8 months, 3 weeks ago
November 24, 2025: From fire to ICE
It’s the anniversary of one of Tennessee’s deadliest disasters, and the Tennessee Guard served a very different role than its current deployment in M…
8 months, 3 weeks ago
November 21, 2025: Freedom of Information
The fight over access is at the heart of the lawsuits over Tennessee’s execution protocols and so much more. Plus the local news for November 21, 202…
8 months, 4 weeks ago
November 20, 2025: Disasters do happen
It’s easy to wave off concern about sinkholes or pipeline spills as anti-business nonsense, but things can and do go wrong sometimes. Plus the local …
9 months ago
November 19, 2025: Homeland Security and the birth of ICE
The arm of government carrying out immigration raids today was created to respond to terrorism. Plus, the local news for November 19, 2025, and this …
9 months ago
November 18, 2025: Synchronized time
The zig-zag boundary between Central and Eastern time zones in Tennessee is partly because of another kind of issue with time-keeping. Plus, the loca…
9 months ago
November 17, 2025: Political pardons
From Nixon’s clean slate from Ford to the way that Trump recently cleared the records of Tennessee political figures, a look at pardons. Plus, the lo…
9 months ago