When Drug Treatment For Narcotic Addiction Never Ends
Opioids have a stranglehold on parts of the U.S. And where addictive pain medicines are the drug of choice, clinics for addiction treatment often follow.Sometime these are doctor's offices where...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Veterans React To Opening Of Combat Roles To Women
Copyright 2015 NPR. To see more, visit http://www.npr.org/.Transcript ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST: It's been an important week for the military. The Pentagon paved the way for women to officially serve in...
View ArticleAmid Economic Recovery, School Districts Desperate For Bus Drivers
There's a school bus driver shortage in districts from Indiana to Florida, and Nashville, Tenn., has one of the most pressing. Nearly a quarter of the city's 550 slots for drivers are unfilled — and...
View ArticleClik here to view.
'Let's Go Peay': State University Brings Infamous Cheer To March Madness
Copyright 2016 NPR. To see more, visit http://www.npr.org/.Transcript ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST: For some college basketball fans, just having a team that makes the NCAA tournament is something to cheer...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Tennessee Lawmakers Discontinue Controversial Fetal Assault Law
Copyright 2016 NPR. To see more, visit http://www.npr.org/.Transcript ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST: A one-of-a-kind statute that criminalized drug use by pregnant women is now on track to expire in Tennessee.
View ArticleClik here to view.
Police Arrest Tennessee Elementary School Students Over Off-Campus Fight
Copyright 2016 NPR. To see more, visit http://www.npr.org/.
View ArticleCountry Music Legend Ray Price Dies At 87
Country music singer and songwriter Ray Price died Monday at the age of 87 at his ranch in Texas. Price was a Grammy Award Winner and who had more than 100 country hits in his decades-long career. A...
View ArticleRemembering Ray Price, Voice Of The Nashville Sound
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1ZKIX0ICZo Before there was Willie Nelson or Merle Haggard, there was Ray Price. The Country Music Hall of Famer who bridged Texas honky-tonk and country crooning has...
View ArticleTeachers Go Door-Knocking In Nashville
It's Saturday in East Nashville, Tenn., and LaTonya White finds herself knocking on a stranger's door. It's awkward. Someone peers out at her through the window. White looks away, pretending not to...
View ArticleSouthern Baptist Leaders Highlight Benefits Of Youthful Matrimony
Leaders of the country's largest Protestant denomination have a message for millennials: get married already.The Nashville-based Southern Baptist Convention and its nearly 16 million members continue...
View ArticleThis Summer, The Cafeteria Comes To The Kids
"Chow bus! Chow bus! Chow bus!" chants Gunner Fischer, 3, as a custom-painted school bus rounds the corner and rumbles toward his apartment complex in Murfreesboro, Tenn.About 21 million students...
View ArticleChattanooga, Tenn., Shootings Prompt Push To Arm Stateside Service Members
Copyright 2015 NPR. To see more, visit ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST: An impromptu show of support following last week's shootings at the recruiting stations is becoming a common scene around the country - men...
View ArticleKnock Knock, Teacher's Here: The Power Of Home Visits
Ninety percent of students at Hobgood Elementary in Murfreesboro, Tenn., come from low-income households. Most of the school's teachers don't. And that's a challenge, says principal Tammy Garrett."If...
View ArticleReligion Takes Spotlight In Final Days Of Nashville Mayoral Race
Copyright 2015 NPR. To see more, visit ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST: The Iowa caucuses aren't until February 1, but off-year mayoral races are hitting the home stretch. In Nashville, a campaign focused on...
View ArticleTenn. Lawmakers Worry About Fate Of VW's Chattanooga Plant
Copyright 2015 NPR. To see more, visit ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: Volkswagen has one plant in the U.S. It's a billion-dollar facility located outside Chattanooga, Tenn. It started cranking out cars in 2011...
View ArticleAs An Investor, Tennessee Maintains Support For Volkswagen
Copyright 2015 Nashville Public Radio. To see more, visit DAVID GREENE, HOST: Volkswagen admitted that it did something sneaky. As we've reported, the company put software in diesel vehicles that...
View ArticleWhen Drug Treatment For Narcotic Addiction Never Ends
Opioids have a stranglehold on parts of the U.S. And where addictive pain medicines are the drug of choice, clinics for addiction treatment often follow.Sometime these are doctor's offices where...
View ArticleVeterans React To Opening Of Combat Roles To Women
Copyright 2015 NPR. To see more, visit ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST: It's been an important week for the military. The Pentagon paved the way for women to officially serve in ground combat jobs. The move opens...
View ArticleAmid Economic Recovery, School Districts Desperate For Bus Drivers
There's a school bus driver shortage in districts from Indiana to Florida, and Nashville, Tenn., has one of the most pressing. Nearly a quarter of the city's 550 slots for drivers are unfilled — and...
View Article'Let's Go Peay': State University Brings Infamous Cheer To March Madness
Copyright 2016 NPR. To see more, visit ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST: For some college basketball fans, just having a team that makes the NCAA tournament is something to cheer about. Well, for fans of Austin...
View Article