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At the beginning of 2007, the Howard Baker Center for Public Policy created the Energy Fellow position. It's a partnership with the TVA and the Oak Ridge National Laboratory. The program's goals include stimulating discussion of our nation's energy policy, engaging international experts in the program and proposing solutions to current energy concerns. On this segment of Dialogue, host Chrissy Keuper speaks with Jerry Paul, the man appointed to that position...
There are millions of unexploded land mines, bombs and grenades buried, often forgotten, all across the world. Some date back to the earliest 20th century. Many are remnants of far more recent conflicts. Typically, military personnel are employed to clear these deadly hazards. But now civilians are being trained to detect them. There are only two places in the country to provide non-military ordnance training. One is in Oak Ridge. WUOT's Ann Lloyd has this report...
National Public Radio correspondent Susan Stamberg is in Knoxville today. She's the featured speaker at the Girl Scouts of Tanasi Council "Women of Achievement" Gala this evening. Stamberg joined NPR in 1972. She was the first woman to host a daily national news program. She tells WUOT's Ann Lloyd being a girl scout as an early step in her career as a successful journalist. But she admits the thing that first caught her child's eye was the fashionable uniform...
Just after midnight this morning, the Tennessee Department of Transportation completely closed down a one-mile section of I-40 just east of downtown Knoxville. It's the final and most critical phase of T-DOT's SmartFix 40 project. During the next 14 months, I-40 traffic between Hall of Fame Drive and the James White Parkway will be re-routed. WUOT's Matt Shafer Powell sat down with T-DOT's Travis Brickey to discuss the challenges that lay ahead...
The first Great Smoky Mountains Sustainable Tourism Summit takes place Monday and Tuesday in Knoxville. Sustainable Tourism is defined as an industry that attempts to have a low impact on local environment and culture as it produces jobs and income. Susan Whitaker is the Commissioner of Tourism for Tennessee. She tells WUOT's Chrissy Keuper that in 2006, tourism brought $13.4 billion dollars into the state's economy and that annually, tourism provides about 180,000 jobs in the state and produces about a billion dollars in sales tax revenue...
Two retired Army officers are in Knoxville today to discuss U.S. policy in Iraq. Lieutenant General Robert Gard and Colonel William Hauser say American troops are in an untenable situation in Iraq. Officially, military personnel support the Bush Administration's policy. But Gard says personal opinion is very different...
Today marks the 30th anniversary of one of the most controversial environmental cases in national and East Tennessee history. On this date in 1978, the U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments in the case of Hill vs. the Tennessee Valley Authority--- also known as the Snail Darter case. WUOT's Chrissy Keuper has a report on this important case...
This evening, the Tennessee Health Care Campaign will host a town hall meeting with several state legislators about the status of health coverage for the poor. One of the topics that will surely arise is the upcoming transition from the federal government's Medicaid Spend-down program to the state's program. John Stewart of the Tennessee Health Care Campaign tells WUOT's Chrissy Keuper many of the people affected by the transition are in danger of losing their health coverage...
