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Tony Gonzalez

East Nashville

News Director at WPLN-FM (Nashville, TN)

News Director for @WPLN in Nashville, where I've run our #CuriousNashville project and overseen special projects. Covering Nashville since 2011.

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  • 22 hours ago | wpln.org | Tony Gonzalez

    Kilmar Abrego Garcia, whose mistaken deportation to El Salvador became a political flashpoint in the Trump administration’s stepped-up immigration enforcement, was returned to the United States on Friday to face criminal charges related to what the Trump administration said was a large human smuggling operation that brought immigrants into the country illegally.

  • 1 day ago | wpln.org | Tony Gonzalez

    LEAVENWORTH, Kan. (AP) — A judge on Wednesday barred a major U.S. private prison operator from housing immigrants facing possible deportation in a shuttered Kansas City area detention center unless it can get a permit from frustrated city officials. Leavenworth County Judge John Bryant agreed after a packed hearing to grant the city of Leavenworth’s request for a temporary restraining order against CoreCivic, one of the nation’s largest private prison operators.

  • 2 days ago | wpln.org | Tony Gonzalez

    Marty McFly grabbed a guitar in “Back to the Future” and rocked out with the band at a 1950s high school dance, helping him narrowly avoid blinking out of existence before time-traveling back to the 1980s. The guitar, in real life, wasn’t as lucky. Filmmakers went looking for the instrument while making the movie’s 1989 sequel, but even now it’s nowhere to be found. Four decades after the blockbuster film debuted, the guitar’s creator has launched a search for the iconic Cherry Red Gibson ES-345.

  • 3 days ago | wpln.org | Tony Gonzalez

    Dollar General set a quarterly sales record of $10.44 billion and upgraded its annual profit and sales outlook as Americans tighten their budgets and spend more at bargain stores and off-price retailers amid economic uncertainty. The U.S. economy shrank at a 0.2% annual pace from January through March, the first drop in three years, as President Donald Trump’s trade wars dented spending by businesses. Consumer spending slowed sharply.

  • 3 days ago | wpln.org | Tony Gonzalez

    Updated June 03, 2025 at 17:53 PM ETPresident Trump took yet another step Tuesday to place NPR and PBS at the center of his broader clash with major cultural institutions, formally asking Congress to take back the $1.1 billion it has set aside for all public broadcasters for the next two years. A simple majority of lawmakers in each chamber must approve what’s technically known as a “rescission request” within 45 days for it to become law.

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Tony Gonzalez
Tony Gonzalez @TGonzalez
5 Apr 25

The most prolific piano tuner in Nashville!? Great story!

WNXP Nashville
WNXP Nashville @WNXPnashville

The third episode of of WNXP's Music Citizens, "The Tuner," drops next Monday, April 7 and features piano technician Brent Arledge. He is the most prolific piano tuner in Nashville, and possibly the world. Listen to the teaser now: https://t.co/RlF8qaiYWz https://t.co/bMe19XAnF2

Tony Gonzalez
Tony Gonzalez @TGonzalez
2 Apr 25

RT @ThisIsNashville: Today we look at the history of @wpln through your eyes - from that first day when you started listening to now. What…

Tony Gonzalez
Tony Gonzalez @TGonzalez
1 Apr 25

RT @WPLN: Keep public media going strong! Give during Nashville Public Radio's Spring Fund Drive to support all the news, music and program…