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After Democrats fled Austin in order to keep the Texas House from taking up redistricting, Gov. Greg Abbott threatened to remove them from office and suggested they might be committing bribery by fund...
· 41 min 53 sec
Even the most beautiful places in the state have their haters. Host Marie Cecile Anderson, producer Daniel Sumstine, and executive producer Whitney Pastorek are quizzing each other — and you — on some...
· 30 min 17 sec
Tomorrow is the start of a new school year for Metro Nashville Public Schools! Hey Nashville newsletter editor and MNPS second-grade parent Margaret Kingsbury is joined by MNPS Teacher of the Year Nat...
· 18 min 28 sec
The violent deaths of four teenagers in an Austin yogurt shop in 1991 forever changed the city, and Austin’s collective trauma is on full display in a new HBO documentary series, “The Yogurt Shop Murd...
· 28 min 20 sec
The State Building Commission just granted a two-year lease to Elon Musk’s The Boring Company to start their Tesla tunnel to BNA, and local leaders are starting to push back. Since we’re also wonderin...
· 31 min 24 sec
Austin is once again in the national spotlight, as Texas lawmakers work to create the five new Republican congressional districts President Donald Trump requested. But will they succeed? On today’s Fr...
· 38 min 2 sec
It’s time for kids to head back to school, but that doesn’t mean the end of great things to do in our city. Host Marie Cecile Anderson, producer Daniel Sumstine, and Hey Nashville newsletter editor Ma...
· 18 min 37 sec
We’ve made it to the dog days of summer, and they are long. Yet unlike most other years, this August, Austin is looking green and gorgeous thanks to our very rainy July. In our monthly guide to August...
· 30 min 35 sec
Since the July 4th flooding in Central Texas and the Hill Country, volunteers have shown up in droves, at first overwhelming the extensive flooding scenes. Even though officials told folks to not just...
· 40 min 46 sec
Nashville is a fantastic outdoor city, but the mosquitoes and ticks are no fun at all. How can we fight back? Local naturalist and author Jo Brichetto, who popularized the “Mosquito Bucket of Doom,” j...
· 28 min 3 sec
A tax rate election is getting more and more likely, as Austin City Council members seem less interested in cutting services in order to adopt a budget that balances out a $33 million deficit. But Aus...
· 31 min 20 sec
Yesterday, state officials and Elon Musk’s The Boring Company officially announced plans for a tunnel connecting downtown and BNA. We’ve got the details on the plan, plus City Cast Las Vegas host Dayv...
· 32 min 53 sec
A special session is underway at the Texas Capitol, where lawmakers have a list of 18 items to address in just 30 days. While regulating THC products used to be at the top of the list, that all change...
· 22 min 18 sec
Has Nashville turned into a “theme park of intoxication”? That’s what Vanderbilt professor Bruce Barry thinks. In a recent article for “The Tennessee Lookout,” he argued that the city is “on the move...
· 25 min 38 sec
With Nashville’s downtown library still closed after last month’s fire, where can our unhoused neighbors go to escape the heat? Host Marie Cecile Anderson talks with Nashville Scene columnist and City...
· 37 min 33 sec
Everyone's talking about Austin-area Rep. James Talarico after the Democrat's interview on the Joe Rogan Experience was published this week. And, everyone wants to know: Will he throw his hat in the r...
· 35 min 31 sec
For lots of Austinites, the swag one gets for donating to our local NPR station, KUT, is a status symbol. Grackle-adorned totes and socks are practically a currency — this city loves the news station...
· 27 min 30 sec
There are so many farmers markets in Nashville, from a new one supporting refugee farmers, to more conventional markets around town. So, we invited the Nashville Food Project's Rebecah Boynton to join...
· 23 min 41 sec
Yes, we just saw record-breaking rainfall that brought more rain to Austin in July than we typically see throughout an entire summer. And yes, the reservoirs that hold Austinites’ drinking water are 9...
· 23 min 9 sec
Evan Darr has been a bartender in Nashville for 25 years, from hotels to the Wildhorse Saloon — one of the thousands of gig workers who make this city run. She's joining host Marie Cecile Anderson to...
· 20 min 33 sec