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A recent study from the Carsey Institute at the University of New Hampshire found that soldiers from rural areas are dying at a greater rate than their counterparts from metropolitan areas. And though it's difficult to put a number on a community's loss, rural communities are taking the brunt of the loss of soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan. Tim Marema is Vice President with the Center for Rural Strategies. In general, Marema tells WUOT's Chrissy Keuper there are more soldiers from urban areas than from rural areas. But he also says the statistics deserve a closer look...
The Oak Ridge National Laboratory is home to a number of the biggest, fastest and earliest nuclear research tools. After years of retooling, one of the lab's oldest reactors has started a new life and a new mission. WUOT's Ann Lloyd has this story...
This weekend, the community of Vestal in South Knoxville will be the site of a celebration. It's the 7th year of Vestival, an annual gathering of craftspeople, artists, musicians and community members. Vestival takes place on Old Maryville Pike, at the South Knoxville Arts and Heritage Center, located in a seeming out-of-place marble building. WUOT's Chrissy Keuper takes a look...
The ACLU of Tennessee will host an instructional seminar today in Nashville to help guide convicted felons through the process of voter registration. The state's general assembly passed a law that streamlined the process last year. But Knoxville Representative Stacey Campfield placed an amendment into the bill requiring that convicted felons pay any overdue child support before they can vote. During today's seminar, the ACLU will try to drum up support for a constitutional challenge to the child support requirement. WUOT's Matt Shafer Powell reports...
There's plenty of scientific evidence to support the belief that our global climate in changing. But how? And why? How much are we responsible for it? And why does it matter? On this segment of Dialogue, host Matt Shafer Powell and guest Dr. Gregg Marland of the Oak Ridge National Laboratory take the discussion about global warming beyond starving polar bears and melting glaciers...
Twenty-five years ago today, the World's Fair opened in Knoxville. For six months, visitors from around the world came here to see the latest innovations and technologies. But the fair's lasting legacy wasn't defined by technological changes. Its legacy may actually have been defined by the sense of civic identity it created for what one newspaper called "A Scruffy Little City". Matt Shafer Powell has the story, produced for WUOT by Jessie Krueger...