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"The Other Side of the Street" is a collaborative series that attempts to put a human face to the problem of homelessness. It's an opportunity for all of us to cross the street and get to know a little about the people who live on the fringes of Knox County society. This is the last in an eight-part series... 
American Honeybees pollinate $15 billion worth of crops each year. That's more than one-third of the food we eat. But honeybees are under attack, by parasites, disease and bad weather. There's been a 40% decline in the past two decades, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Beekeepers here in East Tennessee are working just as hard as their charges to keep them healthy. Yet exotic pests and a new mysterious malady are undermining their work. WUOT's Ann Lloyd reports...
In the United States, there are more than two and a half million children with one or both parents in prison. More than eight hundred of those children live in Knox County. Jonathan Ray is one of them. Jonathan turned 14 in May. Both of his parents are in prison and Jonathan grew up living with various family members, never really feeling that he was in a stable environment. He now lives with his Aunt and primary caretaker, Rebecca Booker. He also takes part in Amachi, a mentoring program specifically for children with parents in prison. Jonathan tells WUOT's Chrissy Keuper things are much better now...
"The Other Side of the Street" is a collaborative series that attempts to put a human face to the problem of homelessness. It's an opportunity for all of us to cross the street and get to know a little about the people who live on the fringes of Knox County society. This is the seventh in an eight-part series...
Last week, a panel of experts on earthquake preparedness convened in Washington DC. They were there to remind Congress of a potential danger that lies not so far from here, beneath the country's interior. Elizabeth Wynne Johnson of Capitol News Connection reports from Capitol Hill...
"The Other Side of the Street" is a collaborative series that attempts to put a human face to the problem of homelessness. It's an opportunity for all of us to cross the street and get to know a little about the people who live on the fringes of Knox County society. This is the sixth in an eight-part series...
From the moment you open the recently updated version of the James Agee classic "A Death in the Family", you realize this isn't your daddy's edition. For instance, the idyllic poem "Knoxville-Summer, 1915" at the beginning of the Pulitzer Prize-winning version is gone. In it's place, a disturbing nightmare sequence in which the main character carries the headless body of John the Baptist through the streets of Knoxville. And that's just for starters. Our guest on today's Dialogue says this is the version of "A Death in the Family" that James Agee wanted us to read. And it's a version that came to light only after years of painstaking research. It's a story of friendship, deception, marketing and some pretty intriguing detective work. On this segment of Dialogue, host Matt Shafer Powell speaks with University of Tennessee English professor Michael Lofaro, the man behind the new edition of this literary classic...
"The Other Side of the Street" is a collaborative series that attempts to put a human face to the problem of homelessness. It's an opportunity for all of us to cross the street and get to know a little about the people who live on the fringes of Knox County society. This is the fifth in an eight-part series...