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This Is Nashville
This Is Nashville is a live one-hour daily show driven by community, for community. This flagship program of WPLN News will become your one-stop-shop for news in Nashville and Middle Tennessee, as we continue to show up each day.
Episodes
- This Is Nashville
Crunching budgets and getting curious about Bell Road
It’s tax time — one of our only sure things in life. It’s amazing we all make it through each year since the process often seems needlessly complicated. On…
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Rebroadcast: Keeping our communities safe
Note: This episode originally aired on March 24, but the show was unexpectedly interrupted by a press conference with President Joe Biden about the war in…
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Preserving Fort Negley’s past while planning for its future
Nashville is developing a new master plan for Fort Negley, one of the city’s most significant and unique historical landmarks. The fort was built during the…
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Checking in on the Nashville Predators
Thursday marked the anniversary of the day the Nashville Predators sold enough season tickets to qualify for a National Hockey League franchise in 1998. It was…
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Margaret Renkl on hope, despair and the diminishing call of songbirds
Author and New York Times columnist Margaret Renkl joins the show to share her joy of spring and talk over the polarization that she sees hindering our…
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The Little Pantry That Could closes while others work to keep serving Middle Tennessee
After more than a decade in operation, The Little Pantry That Could had its last shopping day on Saturday – leaving a hole in the city. It was more than a free…
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Voting in Middle Tennessee, and why it matters
The deadline to register for upcoming local elections is fast approaching — Monday, April 4 to be exact. Today’s episode is all about exercising the franchise…
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Exploring Music City's visual arts scene
Nashville is best known for music, and rightly so, but below the surface there is a rich visual arts scene. Wedgwood-Houston and Buchanan have emerged as arts…
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A 'State Of The Kids' address
It's been a crazy two years. We all know that. But, think about this: high schoolers who are about to graduate have been in the pandemic since their sophomore…
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Keeping our communities safe
Everyone wants to live in a safe community. The big question is, what is the best way to prevent violence? The 2020 murder of George Floyd created new urgency…
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What it means to celebrate Newroz in Middle Tennessee
Newroz (also spelled Nowruz) is the start of the Persian New Year and a celebration of spring that is held throughout the Middle East. It's also celebrated in…
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Celebrating Nashville’s LGBTQ+ community, past and present
Nashville has changed a lot over the past handful of decades – and our city’s LGBTQ+ scene is no exception. The first gay bars popped up after World War II…
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Curious Nashville returns!
After a brief intermission, Curious Nashville returns to the airwaves to answer listener questions about Middle Tennessee. The show reexamines history…
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Measuring the impact of Middle Tennessee’s trash problems
Nashville is locked in a contract dispute with Red River Waste Solutions, the private company the city hired for trash and recycling pickup. Things got so bad…
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Revisiting license plate readers in Nashville
In February, the Metro Nashville Council passed a controversial piece of legislation that would allow law enforcement to use license plate readers as part of a…
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Thrifters, vintage stores give old clothes new life in Nashville
Scouring the racks at a secondhand store is a time-honored way to score stylish clothes on the cheap in Middle Tennessee. But if you’re searching for these…
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Surviving outside when the temperature dips below freezing
Middle Tennessee experienced a handful of sunny days this week, but this weekend, there's the possibility of snow. The temperature drop is a mild inconvenience…
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Book-banning bills have potential to reshape the future of school libraries in Tennessee
In January Tennessee made national news when the Pulitzer Prize winning Holocaust memoir Maus was banned by the McMinn County school board. This was just the…
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Diving into North Nashville's artistic heritage, then and now
Sixty years ago, North Nashville was a thriving cultural oasis. There were taverns and gambling joints, restaurants and ice cream parlors, boarding houses and…
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Navigating Nashville when you have a disability
As Nashville continues its rapid growth, residents with disabilities say they're being left behind. While new buildings are popping up all around Middle…
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Nurses are burning out as year three of the pandemic begins
After the first cases of COVID-19 were reported in Tennessee in March 2020, nurses were often lauded as healthcare heroes. Two years later, nurses are not only…
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Who is Nashville's nightlife really for?
The honky-tonks on Lower Broadway contribute to Nashville's economy and its reputation as a destination party city. While "NashVegas" has become a playground…
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Revisiting the March 3, 2020 tornadoes two years later
It has been two years since tornadoes touched down in Middle Tennessee on March 3, 2020. The tornadoes killed 25 people, destroyed more than 1,600 buildings —…
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Tennessee school funding, and housing the unhoused
Tennessee’s school funding formula hasn’t been meaningfully changed in the last 30 years, but in late February Governor Bill Lee and Education Commissioner…
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Bridging the gap between old and new Nashville
Welcome to the first episode of This Is Nashville. Today the show explores how the region's explosive growth has led to a sense of disconnect, between the old…
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