Marianna Bacallao
All Things Considered host, WPLNMarianna Bacallao is a Cuban American journalist at WPLN and the new afternoon host for Nashville Public Radio. Before coming to Nashville, she was the morning host and general assignment reporter for WVIK Quad Cities NPR, where she hosted through a record-breaking wind storm that caused statewide power outages. A Georgia native, she was a contributor to Georgia Public Broadcasting during her undergrad years and served as editor-in-chief for Mercer University’s student newspaper.
-
The Tennessee drag law that was struck down last year was written so broadly that it would have forbidden any public performance where actors impersonate someone of another gender.
-
Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee has signed a law confirming that parents with anti-LGBTQ views are allowed to foster and adopt queer kids. The law comes after the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) proposed a new rule requiring LGBTQ foster kids to be placed in supportive environments. -
From a sign ban during the fall’s special legislative session, to this session’s new ticketing process, spectators have taken issue with Tennessee statehouse rules made behind closed doors. Now, a new proposal could eliminate one of the only avenues that constituents have for recourse: the courts. -
Tennessee ranks in the bottom five states for psychiatric bed space, according to a new report by the Treatment Advocacy Center. -
The U.S. Department of Justice has ordered Tennessee to stop enforcing a statute that discriminates against those living with HIV.
-
Metro Councilmember Olivia Hill made history Monday night as the first openly transgender Tennessean to be sworn into office. -
A second federal judge in Tennessee has temporarily blocked a state law restricting drag performances in public spaces. The order from an East Tennessee judge comes three months after a West Tennessee judge ruled the law unconstitutional. -
A Tennessee law restricting drag performances in public spaces is back in court, nearly three months after a federal judge ruled it unconstitutional. -
A judge has temporarily blocked a new Tennessee House rule that prohibited spectators from holding signs in the gallery. -
Tennessee’s House Speaker wants to toughen juvenile sentencing
