Religion Takes Spotlight In Final Days Of Nashville Mayoral Race
Copyright 2018 NPR. To see more, visit ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST: The Iowa caucuses aren't until February 1, but off-year mayoral races are hitting the home stretch. In Nashville, a campaign focused on...
View ArticleTenn. Lawmakers Worry About Fate Of VW's Chattanooga Plant
Copyright 2018 NPR. To see more, visit ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: Volkswagen has one plant in the U.S. It's a billion-dollar facility located outside Chattanooga, Tenn. It started cranking out cars in 2011...
View ArticleAs An Investor, Tennessee Maintains Support For Volkswagen
Copyright 2017 Nashville Public Radio. To see more, visit Nashville Public Radio . DAVID GREENE, HOST: Volkswagen admitted that it did something sneaky. As we've reported, the company put software in...
View ArticleWhen Drug Treatment For Narcotic Addiction Never Ends
Opioids have a stranglehold on parts of the U.S. And where addictive pain medicines are the drug of choice, clinics for addiction treatment often follow. Sometime these are doctor's offices where...
View ArticleVeterans React To Opening Of Combat Roles To Women
Copyright 2018 NPR. To see more, visit ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST: It's been an important week for the military. The Pentagon paved the way for women to officially serve in ground combat jobs. The move opens...
View ArticleAmid Economic Recovery, School Districts Desperate For Bus Drivers
There's a school bus driver shortage in districts from Indiana to Florida, and Nashville, Tenn., has one of the most pressing. Nearly a quarter of the city's 550 slots for drivers are unfilled — and...
View Article'Let's Go Peay': State University Brings Infamous Cheer To March Madness
Copyright 2018 NPR. To see more, visit ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST: For some college basketball fans, just having a team that makes the NCAA tournament is something to cheer about. Well, for fans of Austin...
View ArticleTennessee Lawmakers Discontinue Controversial Fetal Assault Law
Copyright 2018 NPR. To see more, visit ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST: A one-of-a-kind statute that criminalized drug use by pregnant women is now on track to expire in Tennessee. Blake Farmer of member station...
View ArticlePolice Arrest Tennessee Elementary School Students Over Off-Campus Fight
Copyright 2018 NPR. To see more, visit KELLY MCEVERS, HOST: Parents in an elementary school outside Nashville, Tenn., want an explanation. They've waited two weeks to hear why police decided to pull a...
View ArticleNashville High Schoolers Train As Baristas To Prepare For The College Grind
It's the afternoon lull at Bongo Java East, and five students from KIPP Academy are tripping over each other behind the counter of this hip Nashville coffee joint, trying to show off what they've...
View ArticleEast Nashville Festival Celebrates All Things Tomato Art
Copyright 2018 NPR. To see more, visit KELLY MCEVERS, HOST: The end of summer is coming soon, so let's go south for the final installment in our tour of offbeat festivals. BLAKE FARMER, BYLINE: This is...
View ArticleJack Daniel's Heralds A Slave's Role In Its Origin Story
Jack Daniel's is a historic brand built on stories and legend. To this day, all of the whiskey is made in the hills of little Lynchburg, Tenn. And as part of its 150th anniversary, the company is...
View ArticleWill Trump Deliver On Promises To Bring Back Manufacturing Jobs?
Copyright 2018 Nashville Public Radio. To see more, visit Nashville Public Radio . STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: President-elect Donald Trump's promise to bring back manufacturing jobs was attractive, even to...
View ArticleIs 'Fred Douglas' Park Named After Frederick Douglass?
Copyright 2017 Nashville Public Radio. To see more, visit Nashville Public Radio . SCOTT SIMON, HOST: Next week, Nashville will observe the correction of what appears to be an 85-year-old typo. Blake...
View ArticleGlen Campbell, Country Music Legend, Is Dead At 81
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8kAU3B9Pi_U Singer, guitarist and Country Music Hall of Fame inductee Glen Campbell has died at age 81 in a Nashville care facility after a very public struggle with...
View ArticleNashville's Answer To Flood-Proofing Homes? Tear Them Down
This season's massive hurricanes will force communities in Texas and Florida to ask a tough question: How do you make sure homes and businesses never flood again? Since its own devastating flood in...
View ArticleBeloved Singer And Songwriter Mel Tillis Dies At 85
Copyright 2018 NPR. To see more, visit ELISE HU, HOST: Country star Mel Tillis died yesterday after a long illness. He was 85. Blake Farmer of member station WPLN says the prolific songwriter's road to...
View ArticleFamily Caregivers Exchange Tips, Share Stories To Ease Alzheimer's Losses
Vicki Bartholomew started a support group for wives who are caring for a husband with Alzheimer's disease because she needed that sort of group herself. They meet every month in a conference room at a...
View ArticleWhen Doctors Struggle With Suicide, Their Profession Often Fails Them
Alarms go off so frequently in emergency rooms that doctors barely notice — until a colleague is wheeled in on a gurney, clinging to life. All of a sudden, that alarm becomes a deafening wake-up call....
View ArticleInsurer To Purdue Pharma: We Won't Pay For OxyContin Anymore
The largest insurer in Tennessee has announced it will no longer cover prescriptions for what was once a blockbuster pain reliever. It's the latest insurance company to turn against OxyContin, whose...
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