Alexis Marshall
Alexis Marshall is WPLN News’s education reporter. She is a Middle Tennessee native and started listening to WPLN as a high schooler in Murfreesboro. She got her start in public radio freelance producing for NPR and reporting at WMOT, the on-campus station at MTSU. She was the reporting intern at WPLN News in the fall of 2018 and afterward an intern on NPR’s Education Desk. Alexis returned to WPLN in 2020 as a newscast producer and took over the education beat in 2022. Marshall contributes regularly to WPLN's partnership with Nashville Noticias, a Spanish language news program, and studies Arabic. When she's not reporting, you can find her cooking, crocheting or foraging for mushrooms.
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Thousands of people rallied outside Tennessee’s capitol building on Monday demanding stronger gun laws, while inside Republican leaders largely avoided talk of new restrictions on firearms.
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Hundreds of community members gathered in Public Square Park Wednesday evening to mourn the six victims of Monday’s mass shooting at the Covenant School.
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At least six people — three children and three adults — were killed when a 28-year-old woman opened fire at a small Christian school in Nashville. The shooter was then killed by police.
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The outdoor recreation industry is overwhelmingly white. A new program at Tennessee State University aims to change that by getting more HBCU students involved in the outdoors.
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Republican Bill Lee was inaugurated as governor of Tennessee on Saturday for his second four-year term.
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What "right-to-work" means, and who’s for and against the amendment.
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A new state law requires all public schools in Tennessee to post a list of materials available in their libraries. But not all districts realized the rule also applies to classroom libraries.
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Economists were pleasantly surprised Friday when a report showed the U.S. added more than 370,000 new jobs. That’s despite high inflation and increased interest rates. Essentially, the new numbers show
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Tennessee expects to end this year with about a billion dollars more in revenue than it budgeted. State officials say that's a good thing, but some argue it would be better invested expanding services for struggling Tennesseans.
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More career opportunities could be coming for thousands of immigrants in Tennessee. That’s after the legislature gave final passage to a bill that expands eligibility for certain state licenses.