🏠 How to fix our affordable housing crisis?

❓ Explaining Gun Violence to Kids

How do you talk to kids about school shootings and the increase in accidental child gun deaths? This Is Nashville host Khalil Ekulona and I discuss that and more on the City Cast Nashville podcast. [🎧 City Cast Nashville]

🏠 Nashville’s Affordable Housing Problem

Lawmakers across party lines agree Nashville has an affordable housing problem. How to handle that problem, however, is more divisive. A bipartisan committee has put forth several affordable housing options, like creating land banks and zoning reforms, but Nov. 5 candidates have differing opinions about which ideas would work best. [Nashville Banner]

🏫 MNPS Asks for Increased Federal Funding

In a unanimous vote, the Metro Nashville Public School board passed a resolution asking for “increased and sustained” federal funding as pandemic-era funding expires. The board specifically asks Congress to pass the Keep Our PACT Act and the IDEA Full Funding Act. [Nashville Scene]

• MNPS used pandemic federal funding to provide students with free school lunches, summer school, and tutoring. [🎧 City Cast Nashville]

🧑‍✈️ BNA’s Busiest Season

BNA’s busiest time of year is fall break, which is October in Middle Tennessee. BNA leadership expect another year of record-breaking fall travel, and are anticipating 24 million total passengers this year. [The Tennessean]

• Southwest recently added six new destinations. [WKRN]
• Here’s how to find the cheapest BNA flights. [🎧 City Cast Nashville]