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Dr. Kenneth Cooper spurred an entire self help culture. He was the original cheer leader for "aerobic" exercise. The 77 year-old Cooper runs a Wellness clinic in Dallas Texas. There he promotes vigorous exercise, good diet and healthy living. Cooper was in Knoxville today as a Visiting Professor for the University of Tennessee Medical Center. He was the featured speaker at a morning community healthcare forum. Cooper says he "invented" the term "Aerobics" in 1966...
If you've never been to East Knoxville's Love Kitchen, you're missing out on one of the city's truly remarkable stories. Over the past twenty-plus years, volunteers at the Love Kitchen have prepared and served hundreds of thousands of meals to the hungry. And it all began with a dream. WUOT's Ann Lloyd explains in this "Next Wave Radio" story, written and produced for WUOT by Bobby Evans...
Thursday and Friday nights, the Tennessee Valley Unitarian Universalist Church will present a one-man play about the life of Gordon Hirabayashi. Hirabayashi was one of three Japanese-Americans to openly protest his internment during World War II. His case eventually went to the U.S. Supreme Court. Ryan Yu is the actor who portrays Hirabayashi in the play. He tells WUOT's Ann Lloyd Gordon Hirabayashi is not a household name, even in the Asian-American community...
The 2009 Legislative session of the Tennessee General Assembly begins Tuesday, January 13th. Chrissy Keuper speaks with Joe White, the Capitol Hill correspondent for WPLN Public Radio in Nashville. He says the legislature is beginning its session under a brand new power structure...
On January 8th, 1815, the American militia won a decisive victory in a battle against the British, just outside of New Orleans. The militia, led by Tennessee General Andrew Jackson, was vastly outnumbered by British troops, but was so soundly victorious that the event was described as an act of providence and is still celebrated in some places. Chrissy Keuper interviews Bobby Fulcher, who works for the Tennessee State Park system, specializing in Natural and Cultural Resource management and Tennessee history. Fulcher says the 8th of January celebration used to be a national tradition...
Early on the morning of December 22nd, an earthen wall near the TVA's Kingston Fossil plant gave way and more than a billion gallons of coal ash spilled into the surrounding area. The surge of toxic sludge destroyed homes, clogged nearby waterways, killed thousands of fish and profoundly changed the environmental character of that part of East Tennessee. The TVA Coal Ash spill is considered one of Tennessee's worst environmental accidents in recent history. And the future of the land, air and water around Kingston and Harriman is uncertain at best. On this segment of Dialogue, WUOT's Matt Shafer Powell talks about the spill's effect on the water with Renee Hoyos, Executive Director of the Tennessee Clean Water Network...
Early on the morning of December 22nd, 2008, more than a billion gallons of coal fly ash broke through a retaining wall at the Tennessee Valley Authority's Kingston Fossil steam plant in Harriman, Tennessee. The toxic sludge buried more than 300 acres of land and entered part of the Emory River. Chrissy Keuper interviews University of Tennessee professor Gregory Button, who studies environmental disasters and disaster recovery, including the Exxon Valdese Oil Spill and Hurricane Katrina. Button says the Kingston spill definitely qualifies as an environmental disaster...
Today, the Environmental Protection Agency found arsenic levels more than 100 times the acceptable amount in a river near a massive spill of coal ash. Eleven days ago, an earthen dam collapsed at a Tennessee Valley Authority power plant near Kingston, Tennessee. More than a billion gallons of toxic sludge inundated hundreds of acres. The spill has caused a rift in the delicate relationship between the TVA and people who live nearby. From member station WUOT, Matt Shafer Powell reports...