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Learn More About The Contributor Vendor Leadership Team
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For the past year, a group of Contributor vendors has regularly met to provide feedback and direction to staff on different issues
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
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Hoboscopes: April 9, 2025
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Mr. Mysterio is not a licensed astrologer, a registered fighter-pilot, or a certified surfer.
Vendor Writing
Morning Coffee and a Thought
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My name is Daniel Holmes, and I grew up in a small town in Maryland. Now I live in Nashville, Tennessee. I was never a person who picked a political party. I generally went with who sounded the best. Recently, we were reminded that everybody has a voice by Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde of Washington, D.C. She reminded President Trump that what he does in office affects everyone equally.
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Loosing Loved Ones Hurts Your Heart
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My friend passed away yesterday. He was 48 years old. He saved my life back in 1985. I was in jail and he kept some people from hurting me because they were gonna kill me. They had a knife and everything.
Vendor Writing
The Strength of a Smile
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When one greets another, a smile soothes apprehension but also shows power — the power to deal with just about any and all circumstances that life has thrown at that person. Passers-by may wonder: “Why and how is he still smiling?” From birth, he was and is the only male of that household. At the age of six, he experienced a lifechanging tragedy. He’d been hit by a drunk driver, which sent him as high as a telephone pole only to come back down and bust his head open on the windshield of the driver’s car.
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Global Warming is Changing Traditional Weather Lore
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As a second grader in 1970, I recall my teacher incorporating weather lore into our lessons. Some of the lore went back centuries. “When you see the first robin redbreast, it’s a sure sign of spring.” Not anymore! The winters are now warm enough for robins to find food year-round; they don’t migrate anymore. So, if you see a robin on January 4th, don’t be thinking it’s springtime.