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The 2009 Session of the 106th Tennessee General Assembly adjourned June 12th. The Assembly includes ten representatives of Knox County districts: three are Senators who each serve a four-year term and seven are House Representatives, each serving a two-year term. We generally hear from our legislators around election time, but this year they're sitting down with us between sessions for a conversation.
Chrissy Keuper speaks with Democratic House Representative Harry Tindell, who serves the state's 13th District. He was elected to the Knox County School Board and then went straight to the Legislature, where he's served for 20 years. Tindell says he always knew he wanted to be in government... 
The Nashville-based singer/songwriter duo Sam & Ruby is kicking off their first tour in Knoxville tonight. Sam Brooker and Ruby Amanfu were friends for years before making music together. They come from very different backgrounds, yet discovered they were "musical soul mates". Sam is from Wisconsin, Ruby was born in Ghana, West Africa. He's white, she's black. Sam plays guitar and their voices blend effortlessly. Ruby Amanfu tells WUOT's Ann Lloyd her instrumental skills are relegated to her off-stage life...
The 2009 Session of the 106th Tennessee General Assembly adjourned June 12th. The Assembly includes ten representatives of Knox County districts: three are Senators who each serve a four-year term and seven are House Representatives, each serving a two-year term. We generally hear from our legislators around election time, but this year they're sitting down with us between sessions for a conversation.
Chrissy Keuper speaks with Republican Senator Tim Burchett, who serves the state's 7th District. Burchett has been in the General Assembly for 15 years, 4 years in the House and 11 in the Senate, and he says it was a run-in with local government that led him to run for the Legislature...
The 2009 Session of the 106th Tennessee General Assembly adjourned June 12th. The Assembly includes ten representatives of Knox County districts: three are Senators who each serve a four-year term and seven are House Representatives, each serving a two-year term. We generally hear from our legislators around election time, but this year they're sitting down with us between sessions for a conversation.
Chrissy Keuper speaks with Republican House Representative Bill Dunn, who has served the state's 16th District since 1994...
In the mid-1990's, the US Department of Housing and Urban Development instituted the Homeless Management Information System, or HMIS, a computerized collection of data on the nation's homeless. The system has been implemented throughout the country, and has been used in Knox County since 2004. Chrissy Keuper speaks with David Patterson, a professor of Social Work at the University of Tennessee and the director of Knox HMIS. Patterson says the number of homeless nationwide has leveled off, but that's not the case in Knox County...
The 2009 Session of the 106th Tennessee General Assembly adjourned June 12th. The Assembly includes ten representatives of Knox County districts: three are Senators who each serve a four-year term and seven are House Representatives, each serving a two-year term. We generally hear from our legislators around election time, but this year they're sitting down with us between sessions for a conversation.
Chrissy Keuper speaks with Republican House Representative Frank Niceley. Niceley has served the state's 17th District for a total of nine years, though his legislative career began in 1988...
Knox County is looking at expanding a program, now in a handful of schools. It's a student-led conflict resolution method called "Peer Mediation". It's a technique used for more than 30 years all around the world. This week, teachers, administrators and students from six Knox County middle schools are being trained in the process. WUOT's Ann Lloyd dropped in to the Howard Baker Center on the University of Tennessee campus to learn more about "Peer Mediation"...
Since 1854, Knoxville's Market Square has been a microcosm of the growing city that surrounds it. With as diverse a history as the city itself, Market Square brought together farmers and society people, buyers, sellers, artists, musicians, immigrants and native Knoxvillians, and even Confederate and Union soldiers and sympathizers. Chrissy Keuper hosts August's Dialogue with local writer and historian Jack Neely, focusing on his book, Market Square: A History of the Most Democratic Place on Earth, available at http://utpress.org/...
The 2009 Session of the 106th Tennessee General Assembly adjourned June 12th. The Assembly includes ten representatives of districts within Knox County: three are Senators who each serve a four-year term and seven are House Representatives, each serving a two-year term. We generally hear from our legislators around election time, but this year they're sitting down with us between sessions for a conversation.
Chrissy Keuper talks with Democratic House Representative Joe Armstrong. Armstrong has served the state's 15th District for 21 years and like many of his colleagues, he held a local office before going to Nashville...