Your Turn to Talk: Election Night
WPLN reporter Paige Pfleger and MTSU Journalism and Strategic Media professor Dr. Jason Reineke are in the studio to take your calls and report on any results. Plus, Marianna Bacallao and Cynthia Abrams are reporting live from watch parties around town. It's election night and we're live!
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He brought a stuffed animal to school. Then he was handcuffed.
On today’s show: A look at just how far to the right the country has shifted since Trump’s first term in office. New York magazine focuses on one surprising place: New York City.
Under Tennessee’s school-threats law, kids with disabilities have been arrested for rumors and jokes. ProPublica’s Ali…
December 24, 2024: Holiday joy
On this special holiday edition of the NashVillager, reporter Paige Pfleger takes us back to one of the most joyful stories that came out of the WPLN newsroom this year.
Credits: This is a production of Nashville Public Radio Host/producer: Paige Pfleger Editor: Miriam Kramer Additional support:…
The Antioch High Shooter Had a Violent History. Why Didn’t Anyone Intervene?
The shooter at Antioch High School was a “walking red flag.” So why didn’t anyone intervene? WPLN/Nashville Public Radio reporter Paige Pfleger joins host Marie Cecile Anderson to discuss her recent collaboration with ProPublica on the warning signs that were missed by officials, and how Tennessee’…
Threat assessment laws: Preventing mass violence or traumatizing kids?
The laws took effect before this school year, resulting in students across the state being arrested for statements that wouldn’t even get them expelled. Today, we discuss the conflicting nature of school threat assessment laws and the unintended consequences they’ve created. And it’s your turn to t…
April 8, 2025: The rise of Marsha Blackburn
How Marsha Blackburn’s rise mirrors large-scale changes to Tennessee’s political landscape. Plus ,the local news for April 8, 2025. and Mammoth Cave bats.
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This is a production of Nashville Public Radio
Host/producer: Nina Cardona
Editor: Paige Pfleger filling in for Miriam KramerPaige P…
After moratorium, Tennessee executes Oscar Franklin Smith
Tennessee put a hold on executions in 2022 due to concerns about its lethal injection protocol. This morning, the state resumed executions, using lethal injection to put to death Oscar Franklin Smith.
He had spent more than three decades incarcerated and went through numerous execution dates. Toda…
Theater of War: Rural Tennesseans, Hollywood actors and a live studio audience
Last month, rural Tennesseans, Hollywood actors and a live studio audience in New York City came together. On the agenda were issues that bind us.
Theater of War is a New York theater company that "presents community-specific, theater-based projects that address pressing public health and social is…
December 26, 2025: A deadly loophole
For the holiday episodes, we’re doing a look back at our colleague’s best work. This one by WPLN’s Catherine Sweeney features criminal justice reporter Paige Pfleger’s story on how a blind spot in Tennessee’s probation system leaves domestic violence victims in danger.
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Mr. Rogers on stage, Jayla Thomas on the GOP, and private juvenile prisons under investigation
The headliner: WPLN’s senior criminal justice reporter Paige Pfleger on her latest investigation with ProPublica about abuse in Tennessee’s privately-run juvenile prisons.
The newsmaker: Jayla Thomas, GOP candidate for state House District 55, one of the few contested seats in Nashville on the Nove…
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