Vendor Writing
How The Contributor Added Years to My Life and Life to my Years
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The Contributor newspaper means more to me than just having my own business — that in and of itself is huge.
Safe Streets Can’t Come Soon Enough
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Metro and Mayor Freddie O’Connell have been promoting a Vision Zero goal to eliminate fatalities and injuries on the roads in Nashville, but advocates have called for the city to move faster.
“ … We Need Roses, Too.”
My Uncle Harry is 81 years old this year. He is vital and funny and very technically oriented. He had a great life as a software and hardware engineer in computers.
Q&A with Stephen Watts
Stephen Watts, 29, is a young Millennial with a Gen Z sensibility. Watts has an intersectional view of how his generation works in social justice and advocacy.
Hoboscopes: May 6, 2026
Mr. Mysterio is not a licensed astrologer, a trained waitstaff member, or a certified chainsaw operator.
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Q&A with Aftyn Behn
Time Without Housing Is Harm: Why Nashville Needs a Real Homelessness System
Hoboscopes: April 22, 2026
Vendor Writing
Remember ‘When’
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In the 50s and 60s, people came to Nashville to make it big in the music world. They either made it big or went back home. People lived in boarding rooms for about $10 a week. Eating was cheap: for about $12 or $13, you could eat a steak dinner. Everything was centrally located, so you could walk everywhere you needed to go.
Vendor Writing
The Contributor More Than Just A Street Newspaper
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The Contributor is an award winning street newspaper, but that’s only part of the story. As a vendor and writer for this publication, when I look through its pages every two weeks I see so much more. There is a vast array of stories that can be used to teach people of ALL ages something new, much like the Weekly Reader did for me as a young child and as a teenager, really throughout my scholastic life. Every Friday like clockwork our classroom would receive the latest edition. I would immediately open it up.
Features
‘Holland’ is bloody twisted springtime streamer
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‘Holland’ turns Americana idealism on its head.
Features
Q&A with Contributor Executive Director Will Connelly
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“We need this belief in people’s agency and dignity. That is what I remembered the spirit of The Contributor being.”
News
80-Year-Old Lynn McFarland on Why She Wouldn’t Leave Her Seat
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Eighty-year-old Lynn McFarland was arrested and carried out of a Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee meeting at the Tennessee State Capitol on April 1 after the group passed a bill that would give power to local school boards to deny enrollment to undocumented students or charge them tuition to attend. Tennessee State Troopers carry Lynn McFarland, 80, out of a Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee on April 1. Photo by Alvine
McFarland said when she showed up to protest that day, she didn’t plan on planting herself in a seat and getting physically removed by Tennessee State Troopers. But the thought of cooperating with punishing children was enough to make her stay in her seat when protestors were asked to leave the gallery. A small group stayed in their seats when asked to leave, but eventually also left their seats.