We found that the amount of info shared by voucher recipient schools varied, but what curriculum and testing resources are disclosed skew religious and include materials with misinformation often marketed toward homeschoolers like Abeka and Bob Jones University. nashvillebanner.com/2025/11/10/t...

Cade Cothren is plotting his return to “public service.” via @nashvillebanner.bsky.social nashvillebanner.com/2025/11/08/p...

Times are tight for a lot of Americans right now, but business is booming for CoreCivic. Company announced Wednesday that its 3rd quarter profits were up nearly 25 percent compared to the same period last year. Revenue from ICE was up 54.6 percent. nashvillebanner.com/2025/11/06/n...

THP facilitated about 600 traffic stops as part of its operation with ICE. We got reports for each of those and found only about 14% gave a reason for the stop. THP redacted trooper names from the report, so I mapped one “primary unit”throughout the first shift: nashvillebanner.com/2025/11/05/t...

New: Videos show ICE/CBP agents are scanning peoples' faces on the street to verify citizenship. ICE has tool to instantly look up unprecedented number of databases with just a photo “I’m an American citizen so leave me alone” “Alright, we just got to verify that” www.404media.co/ice-and-cbp-...

ICE has taken 365 allegedly undocumented immigrants into custody from Nashville jails since President Donald Trump was sworn in, including some arrested for minor offenses. ✏️: @iamstevenhale.bsky.social

In Woodbine, a small group of volunteers rides bikes throughout the neighborhood, distributing food and Narcan, fighting huge problems. Woodbine doesn’t have a major grocery store, and after recent deaths, the neighborhood’s unhoused community fear for their lives. ✏️: @mikeiereiland.bsky.social

U.S. Sen. Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee is co-sponsoring a Senate bill to prevent SNAP -- food aid for needy families -- from lapsing on Nov. 1 because of the government shutdown, while blaming Democrats for the shutdown,

This is extremely cool for us and for Nashville. As always, I’m proud of the Banner, grateful to be a part of it and excited to see us grow.

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I spent three months trying to get Behn and Van Epps to answer policy questions, which several other primary candidates answered. They won’t do it. Here, @scavendish.bsky.social writes about how truly lame it is for candidates not to share their policies. As a voter in D7, I also think it sucks.

Wright Middle School’s mariachi ensemble plays shows all over Nashville. On Thursday, they’ll open for Jason Isbell at the Ryman. Along the way, they’ve learned to play with pride from Maikel Rodriguez, who wants them to embrace their talent. ✏️: @mikeiereiland.bsky.social

Resharing this guide by @iamstevenhale.bsky.social. First Amendment rights are dicey right now but more important than ever to exercise. Everyone be careful! nashvillebanner.com/2025/09/05/k...

Charlie Hatcher, ex Tennessee ag commissioner and scion of the Hatcher Family Dairy, is running against US Rep Andy Ogles in the GOP primary next year.

While Nashville tries to fix food deserts, the number of people seeking food assistance through Metro Social Services is going up. The two issues converge in communities like North Nashville. nashvillebanner.com/2025/10/15/n...

IWI US is not the first gun company to see Tennessee as a more attractive home for the weapons industry. What makes it different is its direct ties to a military that a number of experts and a United Nations commission say is carrying out a genocide in Gaza. nashvillebanner.com/2025/10/09/i...

Just dropping this to browbeat the "my vote doesn't matter" crowd

Talked to some potential voters and I am not feeling good about turnout. Go vote before 7!

Middle Tennessee voters hit the polls Tuesday to confront inflation and the state of national politics in the District 7 special primary election to replace Congressman Mark Green. ✏️: @sarahgracetaylor.bsky.social, @ejturner02.bsky.social, @shaunashauna.bsky.social

Last minute election news: Reeves is out of the D7 Republican primary, citing Trump’s endorsement of Van Epps. nashvillebanner.com/2025/10/04/m...

The Department of Homeland Security has begun targeting unaccompanied children in the immigration system with what they call a “voluntary option” to return to their countries of origin. via @laist.com

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Many problems that have been highlighted at Trousdale Turner are also present at CoreCivic’s South Central Correctional Facility. Three mothers described an understaffed facility where violence, extortion and drugs are prevalent but assistance and communication from prison officials is scarce.

The Tennessee Supreme Court has scheduled four people to be executed by the state next year, including the only woman on the state’s death row. ✏️: @iamstevenhale.bsky.social

Eight months after the Department of Government Efficiency effort to shrink the federal workforce began, some agencies are hiring workers back – and spending more money than before.

Metro is obligated to provide 2,000 parking spaces near the future Nissan Stadium. But it remains unclear how much the spaces will cost the city and how they will be financed. ✏️: @stelliott.bsky.social

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This exchange was interesting to me re: Metro’s knowledge/involvement

We got new footage of a May ICE arrest in Nashville. Every law enforcement face is blurred and the THP refuses to identify the trooper who repeatedly covers them removes his bodycam. But in this clip, you can hear the trooper and ICE discussing flaws in the local sting and changes at ICE.

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Meet Banner courts reporter Mikeie Honda Reiland, a Nashville native who’s written magazine pieces for @oxfordamerican.bsky.social and @bittersouth.bsky.social. ✏️: mikeiereiland.bsky.social

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In his newest congressional campaign ad, Rep. Gino Bulso says “they” shot Charlie Kirk and Trump and caused inflation. I asked him who “they” are.

Great read because, as a participant said “it’s good people on a fall morning doing something small but concrete to make the city a better place.”

Want to read the Epstein files? Or important climate reports? You’ll probably need a FOIA office for that. Use FPF's new tool to help us tell Congress that Trump’s decimation of FOIA offices is unacceptable. Americans deserve access to all their records.

🚨This is textbook fascism (seriously, read the definition as it relates to oppression of dissent) from a man sending troops into American cities who said less than a month ago “maybe we like a dictator,” when referring to his own governance. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/19/u...

Gov. Bill Lee has tapped Jim Todd to succeed Judge Cheryl Blackburn on the Davidson County Criminal Court. Blackburn retired this year after nearly 30 years on the bench

Even as the corridor becomes more developed, community members and advocates say Dickerson Pike still feels more like an old highway than a modern urban thoroughfare. Read our latest ZIP code dispatch from 37207

In 2021, a Nashville woman was shot and tased by police during a mental health crisis. A district court dismissed her federal lawsuit, but an appeals court revived it this week.

Mark Green quit Congress to go into business with a lobbyist

Meet Banner enterprise reporter Eden Turner, who has spent time with the Boise Times-News and as a Frances Ellen Watkins Harper reporting fellow for @19thnews.org

Nashville officials downplayed the possibility of National Guard deployment after Memphis announcement nashvillebanner.com/2025/09/12/n...

A back-and-forth between Metro and Elon Musk’s The Boring Company highlights the complications of dealing with a boundary-pushing startup jealous of its trade secrets while complying with public records laws. ✏️: @stelliott.bsky.social

District 7 Democratic Candidates sparred over donations from a payday lender at a congressional candidate forum on Tuesday, after largely aligning on policy questions. ✏️: @sarahgracetaylor.bsky.social

As Attorney General Jonathan Skrmetti refuses to defend part of a new TN law that threatens to jail local elected officials who support sanctuary cities, another controversial immigration bill from remains in limbo. These pair of setbacks could slow state lawmakers’ bullish efforts on immigration.

Students from three Nashville high schools walked out of class on Friday to demand action on gun violence prevention. They joined nationwide school walkouts calling for a ban on assault weapons and high-capacity magazines. ✏️: Lillian Avedian

Ogles twice fought with constituents at his Q&A Saturday and expounded on his beef with Nashville Mayor Freddie O’Connell.