'Your City Could Be Better': What Nashville Needs To Know About Utah's Controversial 'Homeless Campus' Plan

'Your City Could Be Better': What Nashville Needs To Know About Utah's Controversial 'Homeless Campus' Plan

Homelessness is one of the major issues that cities like Nashville are trying to solve. The state of Utah is planning to build a 16-acre homeless campus on the outskirts of Salt Lake City, where unhoused people with mental illnesses or addiction issues could be sheltered and in some cases involuntarily committed. This controversial idea is the brainchild of conservative think tanks, and it’s one that’s very much being embraced by the Trump administration and the Utah legislature. City Cast CEO David Plotz talks with City Cast Salt Lake podcast host Ali Vallarta about how this plan is meant to work, the concerns about forced institutionalization, and why the state is pushing for this even though it goes against the recommendations of local experts and service providers. Mentioned on the show: Interrogating Controversial Homeless Policy Proposals (City Cast Salt Lake) Is there something your city is doing that we should be talking about? Email David now! We’re also on Instagram: @yourcitycouldbebetter Looking to advertise on Your City Could Be Better? Check out our options.

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Celebrating 80 Years of the Nashville Humane Association

Celebrating 80 Years of the Nashville Humane Association

The Nashville Humane Association is celebrating 80 years of rescuing animals this year. To celebrate, we’re revisiting a conversation with NHA community engagement director Taylor Spreitler. She joins...

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The Kitchen Filling Nashville’s Napier Neighborhood With Joy

When Chef Sterling Wright left the reality show “Hell’s Kitchen” in 2014, he could have gone to work in any restaurant around the world. Instead, he came home to Nashville’s J.C. Napier Homes, launche...

24 Mars 30min

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Does Country Music Have a Drinking Problem?

Nashville was built on country music, and country music was built on drinking songs. Now that more people are choosing sobriety, what are we to do? Host Marie Cecile Anderson is joined by Joe Hudak, R...

23 Mars 25min

'Your City Could Be Better': Could a Nevada Brothel Help Redefine Labor Standards Nationwide? — Presented By City Cast Nashville

'Your City Could Be Better': Could a Nevada Brothel Help Redefine Labor Standards Nationwide? — Presented By City Cast Nashville

The unionization efforts of sex workers in Nevada might have implications for gig workers in Nashville. At Sheri's Ranch, a legal brothel 45 minutes outside Las Vegas, some of the workers are seeking ...

22 Mars 25min

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The Mallification of 12 South, HOPE Scholarship Struggles, and We Can’t Handle the Truth

Is 12 South just a mall now? Yesterday’s Tennessean headline had us laughing, while also pondering the future of our friendly neighborhood-turned-upscale shopping center. On today’s Friday News Roundu...

20 Mars 35min

Are These the Best Sandwiches in Nashville?

Are These the Best Sandwiches in Nashville?

We all seek out delicious sandwiches, even when we make delicious sandwiches for a living. Host Marie Cecile Anderson sits down with Jason Eskridge, owner of Music City Sandwich Co. (and former host o...

19 Mars 22min

Who Put Benches at Nashville Bus Stops — and Why Did the City Remove Them?

Who Put Benches at Nashville Bus Stops — and Why Did the City Remove Them?

Late last summer, the Nashville Department of Transportation removed the benches lining Korean Vets Boulevard … but Pastor Robin L. Owen just happened to have one in her car. Since then, she and a tea...

18 Mars 37min

Where To Go This Summer? BNA Cheap Flights Has Ideas

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Four regions, 16 destinations, one winner! Our favorite travel influencer, Andrea Giordano from BNA Cheap Flights, joins host Marie Cecile Anderson and executive producer Whitney Pastorek for a little...

17 Mars 31min

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