Megan Lee Podsiedlik
Staff · Senior Reporter · 145 stories
Megan Lee Podsiedlik is a news writer, radio programmer, and a freelance contributor and speechwriter residing in Nashville, TN.
Nullification Part Deux
By Megan Lee PodsiedlikTennessee
We talk with Senator Adam Lowe about last week's summer study over whether or not the state can ignore orders from the federal government
Metro Council Rundown (10/1/24)
By Megan Lee PodsiedlikMetro
RESOLUTIONS * RS2024-686 (Passed) approving an intergovernmental license agreement with County Hospital for limited military training purposes. * RS2024-736…
Wrestling Over Weather Control
By Megan Lee PodsiedlikOutdoors & Environment
Rep. Monty Fritts talks about his infamous weather modification bill
Metro Council Rundown (9/17/24)
By Megan Lee PodsiedlikMetro
APPOINTMENTS AND NOMINATIONS OF NOTE * President Pro Tempore Vote: Councilmember Sandra Sepulveda was appointed as the council’s new President Pro Tempore for…
Flip-Flopping Freddie
By Megan Lee PodsiedlikMetro
In 2018, he wanted to show voters how much Mayor Barry's transit referendum could cost them. In 2024, he doesn't think it necessary. What changed?
Musings of the Carbon King
By Megan Lee PodsiedlikOutdoors & Environment
Jason Isaac, CEO of the American Energy Institute, talks to us about the nation's energy landscape
Metro Council Rundown (9/4/24)
By Megan Lee PodsiedlikMetro
RULES OF PROCEDURE * Rule 28.1: (Passed) Requires members of the public show proof of Tennessee residency in order to participate in the Metropolitan Council’s…
Metro Council Rundown (8/20/24)
By Megan Lee PodsiedlikMetro
RESOLUTIONS * Vision Zero: Passed, a $350,000 sole-source contract with the University of Tennessee–Chattanooga for Vision Zero Plan data analysis and project…
Choose How You Lose
By Megan Lee PodsiedlikMetro
Ben Cunningham of Tennessee Tax Revolt takes the transit referendum to task
The Transit Referendum to Nowhere
By Megan Lee PodsiedlikMetro
The Committee Against an Unfair Tax talks to us about what's wrong with Mayor O'Connell's transit referendum
Metro Council Rundown (7/16/24)
By Megan Lee PodsiedlikMetro
RESOLUTIONS * Late-Filed Resolution (Not Recognized) a resolution condemning the assassination attempt on former president Donald Trump's life, honoring the…
Metro Council Rundown (7/2/24)
By Megan Lee PodsiedlikMetro
RESOLUTIONS * RS2024-568 (Deferred) A resolution giving $1,971,656.19 through the Office of Homeless Services to The Salvation Army for the provision of…
Metro balances the books
By Megan Lee PodsiedlikThe Daily
💸 The council balances the budget · Where journalists have no names · New restaurants and developments · Much more!
Metro Council Rundown (6/18/24)
By Megan Lee PodsiedlikMetro
RESOLUTIONS * RS2024-543 (Passed) MNPD Taser upgrade * RS2024-539 (Passed) an agreement for the purchase of 3 acres to build a new fire station for $3.1…
One-On-One with Representative Jody Barrett
By Megan Lee PodsiedlikTennessee
Governor Lee signed a bill that prevents municipalities from instituting their own red flag laws. Barrett sponsored it. Here's what he had to say.
One-On-One with Attorney General Jonathan Skrmetti
By Megan Lee PodsiedlikTennessee
Two years into his term as the state's attorney general, we sit down with Jonathan Skrmetti about what his office has been working on
Metro Council Rundown (6/4/24)
By Megan Lee PodsiedlikMetro
RULES OF PROCEDURE * Rule 13 (Deferred) changes filing deadlines for legislation and rules of procedure, deferred to the first meeting in July. RESOLUTIONS *…
Traditional Policing Works, So Why Do We Sabotage It?
By Megan Lee PodsiedlikMetro
Back in February, MNPD began Operation 72, an initiative dedicated to investigating car thefts in Nashville. Since its inception, every police precinct has…
Why Nashville's crime rate has fallen
By Megan Lee PodsiedlikThe Daily
🚔 Traditional policing works · Budget priorities · Free facts · The week in streaming · Much more!
