Thursday News Rodeo: Reopening, Party Wagon Protest, and COVID-19 in Jails
Nashville’s government has released a four-part plan to “reopen” the city’s businesses and parks, conditioned on a 14-day decline of new cases of
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Thursday News Rodeo: Sit-In Anniversary, Hot Job Market, and Body Cam Demos
Sixty years ago today, more than 100 protesters were arrested as part of the Nashville’s sit-ins for attempting to eat at whites-only lunch
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Thursday News Rodeo: 440 Progress, Body Cameras, and School Lunch Debt
The mayor’s office is disputing the $30 million price tag for body cameras for the city’s police force, disagreeing with the estimate put
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Thursday News Rodeo: Dolly Parton, Top Restaurants, and Code Blue
Mayor John Cooper repeatedly said the city is in receivership (think of it as like a civic bankruptcy) at a breakfast with business
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Thursday News Rodeo: Joyland, New Vandy Chancellor and Historic Graveyards
Mayor John Cooper’s staff told the Metropolitan Housing Trust Fund Commission that their budget was slashed from $9.5 million to $5 million about
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Thursday News Rodeo: Body Cam Delay, Shadow Patriot, and an Animatronic Karaoke Bar
William Weeden, the executive director of the city’s Community Oversight Board, has abruptly resigned his position saying that he was under too much
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Thursday News Rodeo: Closed Emergency Shelters, COB Vacancies, and a Duck’s New Foot
Advocates for Nashville’s homeless voiced their concern Wednesday that the city has told them they would not be able to operate the city’s
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Thursday News Rodeo: Harry Potter, Lizzo, and an Injured Kicker
PSA: This Saturday is the final day for early voting in the mayoral and council races. Election Day is September 12. WPLN hosted
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Thursday News Rodeo: Charger Woes, Rock Block, and Bears
PSA: Early voting begins tomorrow downtown and runs through September 7 ahead of the September 12 run-off election. The CEO of a civil
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Thursday News Rodeo: Early Voting, Nude Dude, and Silent Ubers
PSA: Early voting starts tomorrow in Nashville at the Howard Office Building downtown (the 10 community sites open next Friday), with the mayor,
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