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From the cancellations of Stephen Colbert and Jimmy Kimmel to book bans and drag restrictions in Tennessee, are we testing the limits of the First Amendment? Plus, the local news for September 19, 2025, and flex loans.   Credits:  This is a production of Nashville Public Radio Host/producer: Nina Cardona Editor: Miriam Kramer Additional support: Mack Linebaugh, Tony Gonzalez, LaTonya Turner and th...

The most iconic type of Nashville bar is part of a colorful history that includes cattle drives and sailors on shore leave. Plus, the local news for September 18, 2025 and reclaiming the banjo.   Credits:  This is a production of Nashville Public Radio Host/producer: Nina Cardona Editor: Miriam Kramer Additional support: Mack Linebaugh, Tony Gonzalez, LaTonya Turner and the staff of WPLN and WNXP

Zoning laws may sound arcane, but they set the tone for so much of what gives a neighborhood its character. Plus, the local news for September 17, 2025, and this week’s edition of What Where Whens-day .   Credits:  This is a production of Nashville Public Radio Host/producer: Nina Cardona Editor: Miriam Kramer Additional support: Mack Linebaugh, Tony Gonzalez, LaTonya Turner and the staff of WPLN...

Not all deaths in the public sphere get the same level of response. Whether or not someone like Charlie Kirk should be remembered with large scale vigils or a moment of silence is a politically loaded question. Plus, the local news for Sept. 16, 2025, and a landfill controversy in a rural area of Tennessee.   Credits:  This is a production of Nashville Public Radio Host/producer: Nina Cardona Edit...

There was a time when the majority of parks in our city were about ball fields and band shells, but now the four largest parks in the system are mostly given over to nature. Plus, the local news for September 15, 2025, and NPR’s Pod Corner.  Credits:   This is a production of Nashville Public Radio.  Host/producer: Nina Cardona  Editor: Miriam Kramer  Additional support: Mack Linebaugh, Tony Gonza...

One of our most beloved rights in this nation is also one of the most contentious. Plus, the local news for September 12, 2025, and deciding where Nashville needs more housing.   Credits:  This is a production of Nashville Public Radio Host/producer: Nina Cardona Editor: Miriam Kramer Additional support: Mack Linebaugh, Tony Gonzalez, LaTonya Turner and the staff of WPLN and WNXP

Our history as a state and country has been defined, in large part, by waves of migration. Tennessee has been part of many of those exoduses. Plus, the local news for September 11, 2025, and a look at the debate around IVF in this state.   Credits:  This is a production of Nashville Public Radio Host/producer: Nina Cardona Editor: Miriam Kramer Additional support: Mack Linebaugh, Tony Gonzalez, La...

For a brief moment, it looked like our part of the state could have played host to an underground atom smasher. The conversations around the Boring Co.’s planned Music City Loop today holds some parallels. Plus, the local news for September 10, 2025, and this week’s edition of What, Where, Whens-day .   Credits:  This is a production of Nashville Public Radio Host/producer: Nina Cardona Editor: Mi...

From the early days of auto safety to the current attempts to reduce overdose deaths, new ideas for increasing safety are often met with skepticism or annoyance. Plus, the local news for September 9, 2025, and This Is Nashville ’s harm reduction week.   Credits:  This is a production of Nashville Public Radio Host/producer: Nina Cardona Editor: Miriam Kramer Additional support: Mack Linebaugh, Ton...

Two men who became emblematic for pandemic disagreements back in 2020 are facing off again, this time in a Congressional election. Plus, the local news for September 8, 2025, and a dip into the archive for Mule Day 2021.   Credits:  This is a production of Nashville Public Radio Host/producer: Nina Cardona Editor: Miriam Kramer Additional support: Mack Linebaugh, Tony Gonzalez, LaTonya Turner and...

Content Warning: This episode contains explicit discussions of hard drug use. It also contains mature, uncensored language. For about the last four years, This is Nashville 's managing editor Tasha A.F. Lemley has been reporting on ways to support people who use dangerous drugs, often without requiring, or even suggesting, that they should stop using. It’s a philosophy known as harm reduction. The...

Before he became a Texas legend, Sam Houston was a prominent Tennessean with a penchant for running away to be with the Cherokee. Plus, the local news for September 5, 2025, and horse farm immigration raids.   Credits:  This is a production of Nashville Public Radio Host/producer: Nina Cardona Editor: Miriam Kramer Additional support: Mack Linebaugh, Tony Gonzalez, LaTonya Turner and the staff of...

Here in Tennessee, we're using way more energy than we produce. Plus the local news for Sept. 4, 2025 and a profile of Emily Hines, the WNXP Nashville Artist of the Month.    Credits:   This is a production of Nashville Public Radio. Host/producer: Nina Cardona  Editor: Miriam Kramer  Additional support: Mack Linebaugh, Tony Gonzalez, LaTonya Turner and the staff of WPLN and WNXP 

One of the first times guard troops were called in to protect desegregation was in Tennessee, but would a deployment to Memphis be a good idea now? Plus, the local news for September 3, 2025, and this week’s edition of What Where Whens-Day .   Credits:  This is a production of Nashville Public Radio Host/producer: Nina Cardona Editor: Miriam Kramer Additional support: Mack Linebaugh, Tony Gonzalez...

Clarksville native and TSU Tigerbelle Wilma Rudolph was the complete Olympic package: amazing athleticism and a profoundly inspirational backstory. But being the star of the Rome Games was a double-edged sword. Plus, the local news for September 2, 2025, and author Eliana Ramage.   Credits:  This is a production of Nashville Public Radio Host/producer: Nina Cardona Editor: Miriam Kramer Additional...

A natural disaster can set off ripple effects of problems and challenges wherever it strikes, and there have been lessons learned since Katrina. Plus, the local news for August 29, 2025, and a conversation with the Black Keys.    Credits:  This is a production of Nashville Public Radio Host/producer: Nina Cardona Editor: Miriam Kramer Additional support: Mack Linebaugh, Tony Gonzalez, LaTonya Turn...

Cracker Barrel showed the world just how difficult it is to try to keep things fresh when your brand is built on total consistency. Plus, the local news for August 28, 2025, and a postmortem on Tennessee’s most recent execution.   Credits:  This is a production of Nashville Public Radio Host/producer: Nina Cardona Editor: Miriam Kramer Additional support: Mack Linebaugh, Tony Gonzalez, LaTonya Tur...

Today is the anniversary of one Black Tennessean’s hard-fought rise to union leadership. Plus, the local news for August 27, 2025, and this week’s edition of What, Where, Whens-day .   Credits:  This is a production of Nashville Public Radio Host/producer: Nina Cardona Editor: Miriam Kramer Additional support: Mack Linebaugh, Tony Gonzalez, LaTonya Turner and the staff of WPLN and WNXP

Steamboats made Nashville’s river an important mode of commercial transportation, and barges keep that tradition alive today. Plus, the local news for August 26, 2025, and lifelong learning.   Credits:  This is a production of Nashville Public Radio Host/producer: Nina Cardona Editor: Miriam Kramer Additional support: Mack Linebaugh, Tony Gonzalez, LaTonya Turner and the staff of WPLN and WNXP

On this day in 2012, Goodlettsville little leaguers won the national championship — and gained memories for a lifetime. Plus, the local news for August 25, 2025, and Kentucky’s first medical cannabis dispensary.  Credits:   This is a production of Nashville Public Radio  Hosts/producers: Tony Gonzalez and Nina Cardona  Editor: Miriam Kramer  Additional support: Mack Linebaugh, LaTonya Turner and t...

On today’s episode, Blake Farmer digs into Fisk University’s beginnings. Plus, the local news for August 22, 2025, and a look at the controversy surrounding East Bank Boulevard.   Credits:   This is a production of Nashville Public Radio  Host/producer: Blake Farmer  Editor: Miriam Kramer  Additional support: Mack Linebaugh, Nina Cardona, Tony Gonzalez, LaTonya Turner and the staff of WPLN and WNX...

From the tallest building in Nashville, to our airport’s busiest year on record, superlative numbers are in the news this week. Plus, the latest local news for August 21, 2025, and the story of one Tennessee town pushing back against a bitcoin data mine.   Credits: This is a production of Nashville Public Radio Host/producer: Tony Gonzalez Editor: Miriam Kramer Additional support: Mack Linebaugh,...

Across Middle Tennessee, many of our Kurdish neighbors saw their lives changed forever by a war that ended in a ceasefire on this day in 1988. Plus, the local news for Aug. 20, 2025, and shining a light on the Nashville Shakespeare Festival.   Credits: This is a production of Nashville Public Radio Host/producer: Tony Gonzalez Editor: Miriam Kramer Additional support: Mack Linebaugh, Nina Cardona,...

State interference in university matters has been an ongoing theme in Tennessee for quite some time. Plus, the local news for August 19, 2025, and the man who shows up in support of the death penalty at each execution.    Credits:  This is a production of Nashville Public Radio Host/producer: Nina Cardona Editor: Miriam Kramer Additional support: Mack Linebaugh, Tony Gonzalez, LaTonya Turner and t...

Tennessee has a special place in history for its role in delivering voting rights for women, and Febb Burn played a crucial part in making it happen. Plus, the local news for August 18, 2025, and what federal cuts to the national parks mean for our region. Credits: This is a production of Nashville Public Radio Host/producer: Tony Gonzalez Editor: Miriam Kramer Additional support: Mack Linebaugh,...