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On February 20, 1998, Gannett acquired the Nashville Banner and promptly ceased its operations. Since that moment, the number of journalists in Nashville has declined by over 66%, despite the city and its neighboring regions experiencing significant expansion. Action is needed. In light of this, the Nashville Banner will make a comeback in 2020 as a non-partisan, nonprofit civic news organization. Our goal is to wrap up our initial fundraising by summer so we can start publishing online later this year.

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ICE operation in Nashville prompts community outcry

2 days ago | nashvillebanner.com | Steven Hale

The federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency on Tuesday trumpeted the results of the recent operation that incited outrage, panic and confusion around Nashville. The agency, which worked alongside the Tennessee Highway Patrol to stop and question upwards of 500 drivers last week, revealed the most information to date about the operation, but left many unanswered questions about how it was carried out and who was swept up in it.
MNPS superintendent reassures parents of students' safety

1 week ago | nashvillebanner.com | David Boclair

SCHOOL TIES: Metro Nashville Public Schools Director Dr. Adrienne Battle said Thursday in a letter to district parents that no federal immigration agents have tried to enter the city’s schools.
Tennessee death row inmates fight lethal injection protocol

1 week ago | nashvillebanner.com | Steven Hale

If Oscar Smith is executed as scheduled on May 22 at Nashville’s Riverbend Maximum Security Institution, he will be killed with a lethal dose of the barbiturate pentobarbital. The Tennessee Department of Correction announced in December that it had finalized the new single-drug lethal injection protocol.
ICE detains 94 immigrants from THP traffic stops

1 week ago | nashvillebanner.com | Sarah Grace Taylor

In five days of swarming state roads to find undocumented immigrants, the Tennessee Highway Patrol said it has made 468 immigration-probing traffic stops as of early Thursday, resulting in nearly 100 U.S Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detentions.
Metro Council demands action following immigration arrests

1 week ago | nashvillebanner.com | Stephen Elliott

Mayor’s office and Metro Nashville Police Department officials sought Wednesday to further distance city law enforcement from the spate of immigration arrests made by federal and state authorities in Nashville this week. Metro Legal Director Wally Dietz provided an update to Metro councilmembers describing how MNPD learned of the arrests, which began late Saturday.
Local Efforts Emerge After South Nashville ICE Sweep

1 week ago | nashvillebanner.com | Steven Hale

In an overnight operation last weekend, Tennessee Highway Patrol troopers and Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents detained dozens of people from South Nashville, promptly bussing them to out-of-state detention facilities. Families and advocates were left scrambling to identify who had been taken and where they were being held. The days since have brought sporadic reports of other ICE sweeps and detentions around the city.
Nashville police whistleblower arrested for theft and misconduct

1 week ago | nashvillebanner.com | Steven Hale

The former Metro Nashville Police Department Lieutenant who went public as a whistleblower against the department last year was arrested Tuesday on two criminal indictments accusing him of illegally accessing and taking internal files and other documents.
Metro council agenda: Surveillance tech, zoning, and housing

1 week ago | nashvillebanner.com | Stephen Elliott

A lengthy public hearing agenda will keep councilmembers busy at their first meeting of May on Tuesday. Here’s our rundown of the meeting’s agenda:RS2025-1173: City law requires the adoption of any new surveillance technology to include a public hearing, and the council will hold public hearings for surveillance tech sought by Metro’s Department of Transportation and Department of Water and Sewerage Services (see also: resolutions 1174, 1175 and 1176).
Local officials seek answers over immigration arrests in Nashville

1 week ago | nashvillebanner.com | Stephen Elliott

Irate local officials are seeking answers from state, federal and Metro agencies in the wake of joint federal-state immigration arrests over the weekend. Mayor Freddie O’Connell on Monday accused federal and state authorities of targeting the city’s Hispanic neighborhoods under the pretext of traffic safety and “gang” activity. Tennessee Highway Patrol, in conjunction with federal immigration authorities, made about 150 stops in the South Nashville area early Sunday morning.
Slow progress in Glen Casada and Cade Cothren's trial

1 week ago | nashvillebanner.com | Connor Daryani

The trial of Glen Casada and Cade Cothren has reached the planned halfway point, and so far, it’s going slow and steady. The trial was originally allotted four weeks on Judge Eli Richardson’s calendar. On the first day of trial, Federal Prosecutor Taylor Phillips said the government was optimistic the trial would not take that long. But that optimism quickly disintegrated, and Phillips told Richardson they were behind schedule on the second day of the trial.