WPLN-FM (Nashville, TN)

WPLN-FM (90.3 FM) is a radio station in Nashville, Tennessee, affiliated with National Public Radio. Since June 2011, it has focused solely on news and talk programming, moving away from its previous mix that included classical music. The station's studios are located on Mainstream Drive, just north of downtown Nashville, and are regarded by many as some of the best radio production facilities in the country.

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How the Barkley Marathons make ritual and myth in the East Tennessee woods

4 days ago | wpln.org | Tony Gonzalez

The Barkley Marathon includes many traditions, including the blowing of a conch shell — in this instance, by Carl Laniak. Somewhere deep in the East Tennessee woods, there’s a race with no finish line — at least not one most people will ever reach. There’s no official website, no posted start time, and the course changes every year. Runners carry pages torn from books as proof they’ve completed each loop. And it all begins with the lighting of a cigarette.
Vanderbilt ready to keep investing in football after historic season and House settlement

5 days ago | wpln.org | Tony Gonzalez

Vanderbilt has plenty of options for divvying up revenue sharing under the House settlement with a two-time national baseball champ and both men’s and women’s basketball coming off NCAA Tournament berths. Combined with a record of more losing seasons than bowl berths seemingly would make for an easy decision to invest anywhere but football. Not the Commodores. “This is the SEC,” Vanderbilt athletic director Candice Storey Lee said Tuesday.
Could you eat this much ice cream after walking 1,100 miles? Some Appalachian Trail hikers try

6 days ago | wpln.org | Tony Gonzalez

Sam Cooper had just trekked 7 miles (11 kilometers) through a rain-sodden stretch of the Appalachian Trail when he sat down outside a little country store in Pennsylvania to take on its ice cream challenge.
Tennessee's deadly April storms qualify for federal relief

1 week ago | wpln.org | Tony Gonzalez

Deadly and damaging April storms across Tennessee have qualified for additional federal disaster relief. Multiple tornadoes killed 10 people across the state in the first week of April, and a strong tornado in McNairy County damaged more than 300 structures. Flooding also prompted voluntary evacuations and impacted wastewater treatment plants in multiple counties.
Predators expect captain Roman Josi back for camp despite health diagnosis

1 week ago | wpln.org | Tony Gonzalez

Nashville captain Roman Josi is expected at training camp in September after the Predators said Wednesday the defenseman was diagnosed with postural tachycardia syndrome or POTS late last season. “He has been undergoing treatment since that diagnosis and is progressing exceptionally well,” general manager Barry Trotz said in a statement.
Flooding and rock slides close heavily damaged I-40 section in Smoky Mountains

1 week ago | wpln.org | Tony Gonzalez

HARTFORD, Tenn. (AP) — Heavy rain, flooding and a rock slide have again closed a section of the major cross country highway Interstate 40 along its narrow corridor through the Great Smoky Mountains. The slide and flood happened Wednesday afternoon around mile marker 450 in Tennessee, just to the west of the state line with North Carolina, the Tennessee Department of Transportation said on social media.
ICE is using no-bid contracts, boosting big firms, to get more detention beds

1 week ago | wpln.org | Tony Gonzalez

Leavenworth, Kansas, occupies a mythic space in American crime, its name alone evoking a short hand for serving hard time. The federal penitentiary housed gangsters Al Capone and Machine Gun Kelly — in a building so storied that it inspired the term “the big house.”Now Kansas’ oldest city could soon be detaining far less famous people, migrants swept up in President Donald Trump’s promise of mass deportations of those living in the U.S. illegally.
Supreme Court upholds Tennessee law that bars gender-affirming care for minors

1 week ago | wpln.org | Tony Gonzalez

In a decision that plunged the Supreme Court into yet another culture war feud, the justices on Wednesday upheld a Tennessee law banning all gender affirming care for minors. In the last few years, fully half the states have adopted similar bans, leaving the other half, so far, allowing gender affirming care in the form of at minimum, hormone treatments prior to a teenager turning 18. The vote was 6-to-3, along conservative/liberal lines. Supporters of the bill were predictably elated over the win.
NAACP, environmental group notify Elon Musk's xAI company of intent to sue over facility pollution

1 week ago | wpln.org | Tony Gonzalez

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — The NAACP and an environmental group said Tuesday that they intend to sue Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company xAI over concerns about air pollution generated by a supercomputer facility located near predominantly Black communities in Memphis. The xAI data center began operating last year, powered in part by pollution-emitting gas turbines, without first applying for a permit. Officials have said an exemption allowed them to operate for up to 364 days without a permit.
Trump administration blocked from cutting local health funding for Nashville and other municipalities

1 week ago | wpln.org | Tony Gonzalez

A federal court has temporarily blocked the Trump administration from clawing back millions in public health funding from four Democrat-led municipalities in GOP-governed states. It’s the second such federal ruling to reinstate public health funding for several states.