Controversial MNPS Decisions, Tunnel vs. Crayfish, and Is Taylor Swift From Nashville?
The route for The Boring Company’s Tesla tunnels might put the endangered Nashville crayfish in Mill Creek at risk, but they’ve started digging anyway. City Cast Nashville contributor Nicole Williams joins host Marie Cecile Anderson and executive producer Whitney Pastorek for this week’s edition of Tunnel Time, and helps us understand the controversy surrounding a school board decision to settle with MNPS employees alleging wrongful termination. We’re also talking “misogynistic” school dress codes, the long-awaited sale of Carl Icahn’s scrapyard, and Taylor Swift’s new album, “The Life of a Showgirl.”
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