🍽️ Tariffs impact local Asian restaurants

🧑‍⚖️ Casada/Cothren Trial Begins

The trial of former Tennessee House Speaker Glen Casada and his chief of staff, Cade Cothren, begins today, and involves a long list of Republican lawmakers as witnesses, including current Speaker of the House Cameron Sexton. Casada and Cothren are charged with 20 counts of money laundering, bribery, wire fraud, and theft. [Nashville Banner]

🚌 Chief Transit Plan Program Officer Chosen

Mayor O’Connell has selected Sabrina Sussman, the former senior adviser to then-Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg, to oversee our transit improvement plan. Sussman has worked in transportation policy at the federal and local levels for nearly twenty years. [The Tennessean]

• Inside the transit improvement plan [Hey Nashville]

🍜 Tariffs Impact Nashville’s Asian Restaurants

Local Asian restaurants are struggling to source ingredients as tariffs reduce availability or increase prices on imported foods. These impacts disproportionally affect smaller, independently owned restaurants. [The Tennessean]

• Our favorite new restaurants of the year so far [🎧 City Cast Nashville]

👗 This Consignment Shop Fosters Community

Cleaning out your wardrobe? Don’t just toss those clothes — bring them to The Plus Closet! On the City Cast Nashville podcast, we’re revisiting our conversation with co-owners Julie Hollis and Shannon Clemons to learn how their body-positive consignment shop fosters community. [🎧 City Cast Nashville]

• Many of these thrift stores also support local charities. [Hey Nashville]