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Today Oak Ridge Public Schools Superintendent Tom Bailey told the Oak Ridger newspaper that a recent issue of the Oak Ridge High School student newspaper will be re-printed. One controversial article will be pulled completely. Another article will be changed. Last week, school officials confiscated all 18-hundred copies of the "Oak Leaf" student newspaper because it contained detailed information about birth control and photos of underage students with tattoos. The issue received international press attention. And last night, several students showed up at a school board meeting to protest. Despite today's decision, the issue appears far from resolved. Here, WUOT's Ann Lloyd speaks with University of Tennessee Law Professor Otis Stevens and Tennessee ACLU Director Hedy Weinberg...
Performance Artist Laurie Anderson will present her multi-media show "The End of the Moon" tonight at the Tennessee Theatre. She tells the story about how she became the first Artist in Residence for NASA and what she learned from the experience. She tells WUOT's Ann Lloyd that she uses electronics and her laptop computer as major elements of the show. But she also plays violin, sings and speaks...
More than 70,000 Knox County residents are sixty years old or older. They are affected by a variety of issues. Those include health care, the government's new Medicare drug plan, scams targeted toward the elderly and the changing role of grandparents in families. Those issues and more will be addressed at the Knox County Senior Summit and Expo. Knox County Mayor Mike Ragsdale tells WUOT's Chrissy Keuper he expects about a thousand seniors at today's summit...
WUOT-FM presents "Lost to War; the Fallen Remembered". This series of audio portraits offers a glimpse into the life and death of soldiers who have died in America's military conflicts. In this segment, we meet Corporal Michael Pynnonen, who died in 1970 after contracting malaria in Vietnam...
WUOT-FM presents "Lost to War; the Fallen Remembered". This series of audio portraits offers a glimpse into the life and death of soldiers who have died in America's military conflicts. In this segment, we meet Sergeant Willie Partin, who was killed in 1951 while fighting at Horseshoe Ridge in Korea....
WUOT-FM presents "Lost to War; the Fallen Remembered". This series of audio portraits offers a glimpse into the life and death of soldiers who have died in America's military conflicts. In this segment, we meet Second Lieutenant Bill MacKerer, who was shot and killed in December of 1944 during the Battle of the Bulge...
WUOT-FM presents "Lost to War; the Fallen Remembered". This series of audio portraits offers a glimpse into the life and death of soldiers who have died in America's military conflicts. In this segment, we meet Staff Sergeant Victoir Lieurance, who was killed in August when his HUMVEE hit an improvised explosive device while on patrol in Iraq...
WUOT-FM presents "Lost to War; the Fallen Remembered". This series of audio portraits offers a glimpse into the life and death of soldiers who have died in America's military conflicts. In this segment, we meet PFC Maxwell Green, who was shot and killed in December of 1944, in the days following the Battle of the Bulge...
WUOT-FM presents "Lost to War; the Fallen Remembered". This series of audio portraits offers a glimpse into the life and death of soldiers who have died in America's military conflicts. In this segment, we meet Specialist Fourth Class Raymond Allen Renz, who was killed in May of 1967 when he stepped on a mine while on patrol in South Vietnam...
WUOT-FM presents "Lost to War; the Fallen Remembered". This series of audio portraits offers a glimpse into the life and death of soldiers who have died in America's military conflicts. In this segment, we meet Specialist Daniel Harrison, who was killed by a sniper last December while on patrol in Iraq...
Over the last couple decades, RB Morris has become Knoxville's preeminent renaissance man--- a writer, poet, singer and playwright. His sharp wit and melancholy imagery combine with folk, rock-n-roll and gospel to create a uniquely intimate portrait of Knoxville and its people. On this segment of Dialogue, RB Morris joins host Matt Shafer Powell in the studio to talk, sing and take calls.