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After two terms in office, Hooper ended up mediating major disputes between unions and businesses and helped secure the land for the Great Smoky Mountains National Park.

I'm Nina Cardona, and this is your daily digest of what's happening around Middle Tennessee with context and backstory from Nashville Public Radio, WPLN News.

So the Hooper administration made some big strides forward for Tennessee.

One in particular catches my eye right now, that pure food and drug law.

And for arts and culture, this is Nashville, and our music journalism are being honored on the national stage.

We're proud, and you can be too.

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Gary Wayne Sutton was scheduled to undergo lethal injection in December.

But while so many of us have kept our focus on what happened in RiverBend Maximum Security Institution and how the state government will respond, it may be easy to miss out on just how much the case of Christa Pike has drawn the entire world's eyes and attention.

I'm Nina Cardona, and this is your daily digest of what's happening around Middle Tennessee with context and backstory from Nashville Public Radio, WPLN News.

Nothing about this case has ever been normal.

The death of Colleen Slemmer was a particularly gruesome murder.

Every week, What Where Wednesdays shares the latest happenings taking place right here in Nashville by talking to members of our community, putting on events in your neighborhood and beyond.

So tune in to What Where Wednesdays every Wednesday, and you can always find events at wnxp.org/events.

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Krista Pike is out of the hospital and back at the women's prison where she lived for 30 years before her failed execution.

President Trump rallied supporters in Tennessee last night ahead of next month's midterm elections.

Marianna Bacallao of member station WPLN reports Trump says he came to celebrate Republican strength in the state.

Trump acknowledged that it's rare for him to stump for candidates in a ruby red state.

But I said, "You know, sometimes it's nice to go to a place where you don't have to be, but you're there to say thank you to the great people that elected you three separate times in record numbers." [crowd cheering]

Here's a timeline of that night, assembled from the accounts of the media witnesses who were in the room.

Reporters from WKRN, WPLN, and the Nashville Banner, and from statements from her own attorneys and legal team.

Now, this data itself has not publicly explained what went wrong, pending investigation.

At 6.41 p.m. Central Time, the witnesses were brought into the witness chamber.

Just three years later, the chairman of the FDIC, the federal agency charged with maintaining stability in the nation's banking system, testified before Congress that United American was a, quote, "Bank bordering on being out of control," and that it had operated for years, and these are his words, "on the fringe of soundness." United American went down in flames, and its downfall was a soap opera that held all of Tennessee transfixed.

[upbeat music] I'm Nina Cardona, and this is your daily digest of what's happening around Middle Tennessee with context and backstory from Nashville Public Radio, WPLN News.

Folks who paid attention to Tennessee news in the early '80s might be scratching their heads right now saying, "United American? Not sure I remember that bank." But mention the Butcher brothers, and they will almost surely say, "Oh, right, those guys." Until the mid-'70s, the bank had a different name, Hamilton National.

It was the biggest bank in Knoxville, and according to regulators, it wasn't performing that great, but it was holding things together.

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Hurricane Isaias will be impacting Middle Tennessee this weekend.

That's in the protocol.

WPLN, uh, Nashville Public Radio, and the Nashville Banner, um, where Stephen works, we're both parties in a lawsuit that challenged that because we were saying when executions, specifically lethal injections, uh, are botched, it tends to be because of how the IV lines are placed, and so witnesses should see that process.

But the state has gone back and forth.

Um, a county court actually said, "Yeah, you guys are right.

And thank you for tuning in this hour, being part of this conversation.

Uh, many more comments, uh, that, that we weren't able to get on the air, and, and I'm sure there will be, there will be time for that in the, in the coming days.

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If you missed yesterday's show, we had on Leonard Slatkin of the Nashville Symphony to talk about what they face after getting a $10 million lifeline from Oracle.