📋 Show Notes – Friday, September 12, 2025

The Rutherford Roundup

In Today’s Episode:

• Demonstrators filled the Murfreesboro courthouse square protesting Rutherford County’s new 287-G immigration enforcement partnership with ICE.

• A Vanderbilt–Emory study highlights buprenorphine treatment for pregnant women as a safer, more cost-effective option than methadone, with potential $4 billion in Medicaid savings.

• Manufactured housing on the rise: Tennessee ranks 8th nationwide, with factory-built homes offering affordability at nearly half the cost of site-built homes.

• Laverne apartment complex evacuated after smoke alert; no fire found, all residents returned safely.

• MTSU terminates an employee over insensitive comments following the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk, sparking national attention.

• VA Tennessee Valley Health Care System earns a five-star CMS rating, credited to improved ER wait times and suicide prevention efforts.

• Mourning continues in Murfreesboro for Charlie Kirk, who was scheduled to speak at World Outreach Church’s upcoming Culture and Christianity Conference.

• FBI foils a planned drone attack on Nashville’s energy infrastructure, arresting a suspect tied to white supremacist ideology and violent plotting.

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