Check out the latest episode of Pod Bless Nashville where I talked about some of the issues we’ve been covering at the Nashville Banner and also shoehorned in shameless plugs for several other podcasts. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/pod…

Tennessee Supreme Court rules that cops can still use drug sniffing dogs, which can't tell between legal hemp and illegal marijuana, to determine probable cause. But cannabis industry and criminal defense attorneys actually kind of like the ruling. nashvillebanner.com/2024/08/28/hem…

We love to see more and more people listening to DEATH ROW WELCOMES YOU.

📺 Don’t miss it! This Sunday at 2pm ET, @CSPAN will air a discussion with Vanderbilt Law’s Alvaro Manrique Barrenechea and Steven Hale on Hale’s book “Death Row Welcomes You.” They explore the human stories behind Tennessee's death row. Learn more: ow.ly/MSg150T7CQx

We've been reporting on the sexual misconduct policy the Community Review Board was working on in hopes that MNPD would adopt it. nashvillebanner.com/2024/07/22/nas… The CRB voted to approve a report and proposed policy earlier this week and has posted online here: nashville.gov/sites/default/…

New Nashville Banner on school safety, SROs and concerns about the criminalization of normal childhood misbehavior. nashvillebanner.com/2024/08/29/met…

Last night, the State of Florida completed its first execution of 2024--almost a year since its last execution in October 2023. Loran Cole was 57 years old and was on death row since the late 90s for crimes that occurred in 1994.

As students and staff filed out of Cockrill Elementary this morning for a fire drill they encountered a police officer noticeably asleep in the driver’s seat of his patrol car. nashvillebanner.com/2024/08/30/sle…

On this day ten years ago, Twitter user LuckyLuciano17k posted the photograph of himself with the caption "You know I had to do it to em"

Lots of people fairly mocking this but I will just say everyone should read Annie Jacobsen’s book “Nuclear War: A Scenario.” Mr. Rich is wrong about this but the truth of the matter is actually insane.

"We are still going classroom to classroom and it’s a big high school — looking for bodies," Barrow Co coroner Kenny Cooper told Emily Wax. “It’s terrible. Please pray for us." Follow The Post's coverage of the Apalachee HS shooting: washingtonpost.com/nation/2024/09…

Well, shoot, now I feel like a fool for laundering Russian propaganda for a monthly fee of merely $200,000.

The new podcast 'We Are North Nashville' explores the history of Nashville’s enduring Black neighborhood as told by some of its longtime residents. Read our story about the project and listen to the first episode here. nashvillescene.com/news/coverstor…

Today is the 32nd anniversary of the debut of Batman: The Animated Series, a show that didn't just define how multiple generations viewed the Dark Knight, but opened up new possibilities for the adventure cartoon as a genre.

The powerful entity secretly funding my journalism? *My wife*

Several months ago, we surveyed our readers about what they want from election coverage, and they said "substance, not horserace." Today we roll out the first of several pieces about the issues Nashvillians say are important to them. Stephen Elliott on the transit referendum.

For the second time in less than two weeks, a Nashville student has been arrested for bringing a gun to school. This time a 14-year-old at Hillsboro High had a loaded handgun in his bag, per MNPD. He told officials he took the gun from a drawer at home. nashville.gov/departments/po…