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One of the more amazing stories from the World Trade Center disaster involves Michael Hingson, a blind man, and his yellow lab guide dog, Roselle. Hingson is on the University of Tennessee campus to speak at the Institute of Public Service. Here, he shares the tale of his 9/11 escape with WUOT's Ann Lloyd. Hingson says he and Roselle were on the 78th floor of Tower One when the first jet tore through the building. Hingson says his blindness, in this case, was no handicap... 
The documentary film "The Ground Truth" graphically depicts the emotional and physical impact that the War in Iraq has had on the soldiers fighting it. The movie will open tonight in cities across the country, including Knoxville. Knoxville's Church of the Savior will host a screening of the film, followed by a discussion with one of the soldiers who appears in it. Kelly Daugherty was a medic and military police officer with the Colorado National Guard when she served in Iraq during 2003. She says she was unprepared to return to civilian life after her tour in Iraq...
This year, the state of Tennessee will spend $26.3 billion. It'll spend $330 in the time it takes to blink or roughly $800 every second. But how is it being spent? Host Matt Shafer Powell speaks with Drew Johnson, President of the Tennessee Center for Policy Research about the way the state spends your money...
David Habercom is emerging as one of this region's most prolific portrait photographers. But Habercom specializes in a different kind of portrait. In recent years, he's established a reputation for taking provocative, insightful photographs of homeless people. And his work has revealed a depth to homelessness that catches a lot of people off guard. WUOT's Matt Shafer Powell recently spent the day with Habercom at his Knoxville studio...