Nina Cardona
I get up pretty early to read the news. Host of NashVillager Podcast and Morning Edition on WPLN
- In some places, you can shop around for an electric provider. I found the backstory to Nashville's power monopoly. wpln.org/post/nashvil... @wpln.bsky.social
- There's a reason why so many hilltops have broadcast or cel phone towers at their peak. There's also a reason why one of Nashville's taller hills does not. wpln.org/post/nashvil... @wpln.bsky.social
- Elections are very local affairs. There's a reason for that. wpln.org/post/nashvil... @wpln.bsky.social
- When you're trying to make decisions about your personal disaster recovery, you need clear communication about where things stand in the broader landscape. wpln.org/post/nashvil... @wpln.bsky.social
- Dreaming of Spring weather…realizing it's time to zoom out and take in both storm recovery news and the rest of what's going on. wpln.org/post/nashvil... @wpln.bsky.social
- History and outdoor enthusiasts offer some insight into effective ways to stay warm. But of course, the best tip is always to go to a heated space, even if it means leaving your home. wpln.org/post/nashvil... @wpln.bsky.social
- It's still too early to say how much this winter storm will cost us all. The really big question is how much the federal government will help cover those bills. wpln.org/post/nashvil... @wpln.bsky.social
- Why can't we have nice things, like powdery snow instead of ice? Turns out, it's the price we pay for being a day's drive from the Gulf beaches. wpln.org/post/nashvil... @wpln.bsky.social
- We've got a lot of questions to answer after this weather event ends. Most are serious, but there's also an answer to a fun one in here wpln.org/post/nashvil... @wpln.bsky.social
- It's frigid out there. It's cold in a lot of people's homes today. There's a physiological reason why that may have you feeling a kind of way today. wpln.org/post/nashvil... @wpln.bsky.social
- The more a thing happens, the more ordinary it seems. But I don't think having a stranger tell them to sleep in an office instead of a home ever feels normal to a kid. wpln.org/post/nashvil... @wpln.bsky.social
- Any amount of snow is a lot of snow for Middle Tennessee. But some storms are way bigger than others. wpln.org/post/nashvil... @wpln.bsky.social
- In trying to explain Class B airspace, this episode may be the most I've ever tried using imagery of everyday things to help make sense of something most of us never think about. wpln.org/post/nashvil... @wpln.bsky.social
- There's a Tennessee story behind the interpretation of law at play in the reaction to Renee Good's death. wpln.org/post/nashvil... @wpln.bsky.social
- Historic buildings whisper the stories people rarely think to tell anymore wpln.org/post/nashvil... @wpln.bsky.social
- No matter how much they hope and they pray that they will become laws some bills will always be just a bill. wpln.org/post/nashvil... @wpln.bsky.social
- The East Bank marks a chance for Nashville to start from scratch on a downtown annex. Will we learn the lessons from generations of living in the downtown we've already got? wpln.org/post/nashvil... @wpln.bsky.social
- Zinc is a really important industrial metal. Tennessee has a lot of it. wpln.org/post/nashvil... @wpln.bsky.social
- I'm sure you've known someone who thought they could do basically anything. This Nashvillian took it to a new level. wpln.org/post/january... @wpln.bsky.social
- Yes, there were dinosaurs in Tennessee. But the state's Ice Age fossils are the ones that really boggle the mind! wpln.org/post/nashvil... @wpln.bsky.social
- A pair of Tennesseans made their mark on the White House nearly 180 years ago. You can still see some of the Polk's influence there, but thankfully not all of it remains. wpln.org/post/nashvil... @wpln.bsky.social
- The fight for civil rights in the US started long before what is acknowledged as the Civil Rights Movement, and it hasn't ended yet wpln.org/post/nashvil... @wpln.bsky.social
- The fight for civil rights in the US started long before what is acknowledged as the Civil Rights Movement, and it hasn't ended yet wpln.org/post/nashvil... @wpln.bsky.social
- If VW's Chattanooga plant voting to unionize was revolutionary, you could say the counterrevolution is underway now. wpln.org/post/nashvil... @wpln.bsky.social
- This bitterly cold weather is dangerous for folks who live on the streets. The groups that help them are left in a funding limbo right now. wpln.org/post/nashvil... @wpln.bsky.social
- The nation's biggest and deadliest car crash happened in Tennessee during a sudden fog. Now, the measures the state put into place to make sure it never happens again need a refurbishment. wpln.org/post/nashvil...
- One of these days, I may hone my workflow to the point that I can pull together a source list for every episode. Until then, here's a peek at where the info in the podcast often comes from. wpln.org/post/nashvil... @wpln.bsky.social
- Hunger is real. More people are feeling it than you may realize. So what's next for food assistance in Tennessee? wpln.org/post/nashvil... @wpln.bsky.social
- These are divided times. What will end up bringing us back together? wpln.org/post/nashvil... @wpln.bsky.social
- In Tennessee history and this week, a look at tight elections and dark horse winners wpln.org/post/nashvil... @wpln.bsky.social
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- We've got a lot of new place names to learn wpln.org/post/nashvil... @wpln.bsky.social
- Nashville may be the Buckle of the (protestant Christian) Bible Belt, but it has always also been at least a little bit Jewish wpln.org/post/nashvil... @wpln.bsky.social
- Nashville's biggest bank is about to get bigger wpln.org/post/nashvil... @wpln.bsky.social
- We've got laws that say the public should be able to access information about what the government is up to, but when it comes to the exceptions, limits and restrictions there's an awful lot of disagreement wpln.org/post/nashvil... @wpln.bsky.social
- Tennessee stretches into two time zones now, but that wasn't always the case wpln.org/post/nashvil... @wpln.bsky.social
- Several people in Tennessee's political ecosphere recently got presidential pardons. The reaction isn't great, even from members of Trump's own party. wpln.org/post/nashvil... @wpln.bsky.social
- Some pieces of our city's backstory feel like a kid getting his block tower knocked down so that a bigger kid can play in the same spot. wpln.org/post/nashvil... @wpln.bsky.social
- In much of Tennessee, industrial development has long been the big focus for job creation efforts. Times are changing. wpln.org/post/nashvil... @wpln.bsky.social
- This Veteran's Day, This Is Nashville is talking to current vets, and I'm highlighting a local memorial you may not realize is there wpln.org/post/nashvil... @wpln.bsky.social
- The other day, I discovered that Tennessee played a big role in the incident that triggered the start of airport security screenings in this nation. So of course I'm telling all about it on the podcast today! wpln.org/post/nashvil... @wpln.bsky.social
- Tennessee's soybean farmers really needed 2025 to be a good year. Instead they got flooded fields and Chinese tariffs. wpln.org/post/nashvil... @wpln.bsky.social
- Tennessee's constitution includes its own version of the Bill of Rights, and it gets way more specific than the federal version wpln.org/post/nashvil... @wpln.bsky.social
- I've been told many times that The Monkees "Last Train to Clarksville" is set in our Clarksville. On the anniversary of it hitting #1, I decided to sort out what people got right and wrong about the song. wpln.org/post/nashvil... @wpln.bsky.social
- Once you see the similarities between letting SNAP benefits be a political bargaining tool and the tactics of a medieval siege, you can't really unsee it. And it's always the most vulnerable people paying the biggest price. wpln.org/post/nashvil... @wpln.bsky.social
- Tennessee has a robust Rainy Day Fund. That fund won't be tapped to help tide people over until SNAP benefits resume. So the question has come up (again): what is the fund for? wpln.org/post/nashvil... @wpln.bsky.social
- One Halloween, a family in Strawberry Plains, Tennessee, got the loudest knock ever. It wasn't a trick or treater, but it was something out of a nightmare...or a movie. wpln.org/post/nashvil... @wpln.bsky.social
- People had to die from breathing in dangerous air before officials got serious about regulating what comes out of smokestacks. Some of those regulations have been loosened, and there are plans for new smokestacks in Tennessee. wpln.org/post/nashvil... @wpln.bsky.social
- The longer this federal shutdown goes on, the more gets shut down in Tennessee. And the ones feeling the pinch are the most vulnerable people in our communities wpln.org/post/nashvil... @wpln.bsky.social
