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December 23, 2024: Understanding local worries about logging, demolition, and healthcare
We’re revisiting three stories — published over a span of just seven days — showing how the journalists of WPLN News explain local events by connecti…
1 year, 5 months ago
December 20, 2024: The past and present of Tennessee’s political scandals
Tennessee has had its own share of political scandals that rise to the level of criminal convictions. We run down some of them and give you the lates…
1 year, 6 months ago
December 19, 2024: Let’s talk about drones
U.S. Senator Marsha Blackburn from Tennessee sent a letter to U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin expressing concern that drones seen over the cou…
1 year, 6 months ago
December 18, 2024: The end of a Nashville holiday tradition
Nashville’s very first Christmas parade was held in the last week of November in 1928; but, since the COVID-19 pandemic began, the annual tradition f…
1 year, 6 months ago
December 17, 2024: Tennessee’s role in the future of nuclear fuel
On this day in 1938, a scientist set off a new age of nuclear power. Nearly a century later, Tennessee remains central to nuclear power technology in…
1 year, 6 months ago
December 16, 2024: The Battle of Nashville wasn’t what anyone anticipated
On this day, 160 years ago, the Battle of Nashville ended, marking the beginning of the end of the Civil War. And there are still lessons to be learn…
1 year, 6 months ago
December 13, 2024: Fort Negley
Fort Negley wasn’t just a major Union fortification during the Civil War, it was also a place where Black people’s labor was exploited, and where the…
1 year, 6 months ago
December 12, 2024: The CPB and you
From bolstering the emergency alert system to preventing news deserts from forming, a look at an organization that has an important impact–both direc…
1 year, 6 months ago
December 11, 2024: Superfund sites in Tennessee
There are 27 superfund sites located in our state; we unpack what that means. Plus, the local news for December 11, 2024 and this week’s edition of W…
1 year, 6 months ago
December 10, 2024: Human rights for all
On International Human Rights Day, a look at the Tennesseans being honored this year by the state’s Human Rights Commission. Plus, the local news for…
1 year, 6 months ago