Private school tuition, immigration and déjà vu are on the agenda for the Tennessee General Assembly this year, as state lawmakers prepare to close out the biannual session.
Dozens of North Nashville community leaders, clergy and elected officials gathered under a clear tent on Scovel Street early Wednesday. If not for the line of shovels and hard hats in pre-placed dirt outside of the tent, you would not have known you were at a groundbreaking ceremony on a property development.
The Tennessee Disability Coalition gave Tennessee an "incomplete" grade on its annual scorecard released Tuesday, noting limited progress on issues such as housing, access to care and education for people with disabilities.
Congressman Matt Van Epps, R-Tenn., won the unexpectedly competitive special election to replace Mark Green late Tuesday. Thursday morning, about 36 hours later, he had taken office.
Willie Shane broke the asphalt on Elon Musk's Music City Loop project this summer. Seven of his crew had been the sole excavators, fabricators and dump trucking company on The Boring Co.'s proposed tunnel through Nashville for months.
More than $3 million has been spent on advertising in the unexpectedly competitive special election in Tennessee's 7th Congressional District, including more than $2.3 million in outside spending.
Presidential pardons for Cade Cothren and Glen Casada were signed on Friday. Now, five years after the pair were found at the center of a political kickback scheme, Cothren's considering a return to the public eye.
In September, Metro Social Services held a first of its kind food pop-up in North Nashville at Galilee Missionary Baptist Church.
Newly released footage offers insight into how the Tennessee Highway Patrol and ICE managed an immigration sting in Nashville in early May, although redactions and an interruption to the body camera footage raise concerns about transparency surrounding the operation.
Former Congressman Mark Green suddenly retired this summer, less than a year into his fourth term in the U.S. House of Representatives, to pursue an unknown business venture.
