http://sunsite.utk.edu/wuot/mt/ en-us mpowell7@utk.edu 2012-05-16T15:07:02-05:00 hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 http://wuot.org/mt/archives/2012/05/000764-bumagartner_drug_case_now_a_federal_matter.html The case against former Knox County Judge Richard Baumgarter took a new turn on Tuesday, May 15. He was arrested by federal agents and charged with seven counts of covering up a felony. He was released (with conditions), facing a... 764@http://sunsite.utk.edu/wuot/mt/ 2012-05-16T15:07:02-05:00 http://wuot.org/mt/archives/2012/05/000763-remembering_evelyn_bryan_johnson.html Aviator Evelyn Bryan Johnson, shown in 2005 at the Morristown airport she managed for many years. Credit: Wade Payne, Associated Press Remarkable aviator and Morristown resident Evelyn Bryan Johnson died on Thursday, May 10, at the age of 102.... 763@http://sunsite.utk.edu/wuot/mt/ 2012-05-11T17:22:36-05:00 http://wuot.org/mt/archives/2012/05/000762-politifact_tennessee_17_knoxville_news_sentinel_nashville_bureau_chief_tom_humphrey.html By the end of this weekend, Governor Bill Haslam will likely sign a bill seeking to limit gateway sexual activities in Tennessee's public schools. Conservative lawyer David Fowler wrote the bill, based on his belief the state's current abstinence-only... 762@http://sunsite.utk.edu/wuot/mt/ 2012-05-11T11:28:02-05:00 http://wuot.org/mt/archives/2012/05/000761-the_state_of_homelessness_in_knox_county.html In the year 2011, nearly 1,600 people accessed services for the homeless in Knox County every month. Homelessness remains a major issue facing city and county leaders and community organizers. On Wednesday, May 9, the Knoxville/Knox County Homeless Coalition released... 761@http://sunsite.utk.edu/wuot/mt/ 2012-05-09T15:22:03-05:00 http://wuot.org/mt/archives/2012/05/000758-politifact_tennessee_16_knoxville_news_sentinel_washington_correspondent_michael_collins.html It should come as no surprise that Congress' approval ratings are low, and voter exasperation is running high. But are the current numbers the lowest in the history of public opinion polling? In a recent opinion piece, Tennessee Congressman... 758@http://sunsite.utk.edu/wuot/mt/ 2012-05-04T10:36:57-05:00 http://wuot.org/mt/archives/2012/05/000760-southern_education_desk_stem_academy_has_big_hopes.html STEM is a trendy word in education and employment circles these days. The federal government spent nearly $3.5 billion last year on STEM projects, and state legislatures are getting in on the action now too. From the Southern Education... 760@http://sunsite.utk.edu/wuot/mt/ 2012-05-04T05:35:00-05:00 http://wuot.org/mt/archives/2012/05/000759-dialogue_energy_policy_30_years_after_the_worlds_fair.html The stated theme of the 1982 World's Fair was the future of energy. Solar panels were on display, and auto companies showed off new, more efficient cars. But today, three decades later, solar panels and more efficient vehicles are... 759@http://sunsite.utk.edu/wuot/mt/ 2012-05-02T12:22:59-05:00 http://wuot.org/mt/archives/2012/04/000757-politifact_tennessee_15_knoxville_news_sentinel_nashville_bureau_chief_tom_humphrey.html Each Friday morning, WUOT and the Knoxville News Sentinel bring you a feature called PolitiFact Tennessee. PolitiFact is a national Pulitzer-Prize-winning movement weighing the truth in the news... And Tennessee is the tenth state to join. WUOT's Chrissy Keuper... 757@http://sunsite.utk.edu/wuot/mt/ 2012-04-27T10:35:04-05:00 http://wuot.org/mt/archives/2012/04/000756-melony_maness_talks_with_james_marvel_new_director_of_ut_opera_theatre_utot.html James Marvel, the new director of opera at the University of TN, has encountered some challenges upon taking the position in Fall of 2011. Yet, he has embraced these challenges and perhaps has used them to his advantage to establish... 756@http://sunsite.utk.edu/wuot/mt/ 2012-04-26T14:27:39-05:00 http://wuot.org/mt/archives/2012/04/000755-christine_todd_whitmans_view_from_the_middle.html Former EPA administrator Christine Todd Whitman Christine Todd Whitman knows well the view from the middle. A moderate Republican, Whitman was elected New Jersey’s first female governor in 1994. In 2001, she was appointed administrator of the Environmental Protection... 755@http://sunsite.utk.edu/wuot/mt/ 2012-04-25T17:25:28-05:00 http://wuot.org/mt/archives/2012/04/000754-politifact_tennessee_14_knoxville_news_sentinel_washington_dc_reporter_michael_collins.html Each Friday morning, WUOT and the Knoxville News Sentinel bring you a feature called PolitiFact Tennessee. PolitiFact is a national Pulitzer-Prize-winning movement weighing the truth in the news... And Tennessee is the tenth state to join. WUOT's Chrissy Keuper... 754@http://sunsite.utk.edu/wuot/mt/ 2012-04-20T09:23:42-05:00 http://wuot.org/mt/archives/2012/04/000753-mulch_fire_runoff_causes_fishkill_in_knoxvilles_third_creek.html A mulch fire burning just west of downtown Knoxville isn't just an annoyance for local residents. It also poses serious biological hazards. Already, runoff from the water used to fight the fire has robbed Third Creek of oxygen, killing... 753@http://sunsite.utk.edu/wuot/mt/ 2012-04-17T09:30:47-05:00 http://wuot.org/mt/archives/2012/04/000751-politifact_tennessee_13_knoxville_news_sentinel_nashville_bureau_chief_tom_humphrey.html Each Friday morning, WUOT and the Knoxville News Sentinel bring you a feature called PolitiFact Tennessee. PolitiFact is a national Pulitzer-Prize-winning movement weighing the truth in the news. Tennessee is the tenth state to join. WUOT's Chrissy Keuper speaks... 751@http://sunsite.utk.edu/wuot/mt/ 2012-04-13T11:18:40-05:00 http://wuot.org/mt/archives/2012/04/000750-politifact_tennessee_12_knoxville_news_sentinel_washington_dc_reporter_michael_collins.html Each Friday morning, WUOT and the Knoxville News Sentinel bring you a feature called PolitiFact Tennessee. PolitiFact is a national Pulitzer-Prize-winning movement weighing the truth in the news... And Tennessee is the tenth state to join. WUOT's Chrissy Keuper... 750@http://sunsite.utk.edu/wuot/mt/ 2012-04-06T11:06:28-05:00 http://wuot.org/mt/archives/2012/04/000748-southern_education_desk_a_birmingham_school_defies_the_odds.html Birmingham, Alabama has one of the most embattled school systems in the South, but there's a middle school in the heart of the city that regularly exceeds expectations. Former teacher Dan Carsen of the Southern Education Desk wanted to... 748@http://sunsite.utk.edu/wuot/mt/ 2012-04-05T06:35:00-05:00 http://wuot.org/mt/archives/2012/04/000749-dialogue_this_aint_your_fathers_factory.html Not that long ago, manufacturing in Tennessee was king. Factories throughout the Volunteer State cranked out a variety of products from blue jeans to iron beams, from chemicals to car parts. As recently as 1990, more Tennesseans made their... 749@http://sunsite.utk.edu/wuot/mt/ 2012-04-04T13:00:00-05:00 http://wuot.org/mt/archives/2012/03/000747-politifact_tennessee_11_knoxville_news_sentinel_nashville_bureau_chief_tom_humphrey.html Each Friday morning, WUOT and the Knoxville News Sentinel bring you a feature called PolitiFact Tennessee. PolitiFact is a national Pulitzer-Prize-winning movement weighing the truth in the news... And Tennessee is the tenth state to join. WUOT's Chrissy Keuper... 747@http://sunsite.utk.edu/wuot/mt/ 2012-03-30T09:51:54-05:00 http://wuot.org/mt/archives/2012/03/000746-clarence_brown_theatre_dead_mans_cell_phone_by_sarah_ruhl.html Picture a cafe. A woman named Jean sits alone at a table. Nearby, a man sits alone at another table. His cell phone rings... and rings... and rings... soon driving Jean to get up and answer it herself. When... 746@http://sunsite.utk.edu/wuot/mt/ 2012-03-29T10:46:07-05:00 http://wuot.org/mt/archives/2012/03/000745-pink_martini_on_the_rocks_on_the_road_on_the_air.html Thomas Lauderdale and China Forbes of Pink Martini Pink Martini is a twelve-piece mini-orchestra that formed in Portland, Oregon in 1994. The group started as a local project but ended up touring the world. On March 28, they performed... 745@http://sunsite.utk.edu/wuot/mt/ 2012-03-28T14:05:52-05:00 http://wuot.org/mt/archives/2012/03/000744-univ_of_tennessee_chancellor_jimmy_cheek_oversees_era_of_change.html University of Tennessee - Knoxville Chancellor Jimmy Cheek. In 2009, the University of Florida administrator Jimmy Cheek left the marshes of Gainesville for more mountainous territory. He became chancellor of the University of Tennessee's flagship campus in Knoxville. Now... 744@http://sunsite.utk.edu/wuot/mt/ 2012-03-27T15:02:00-05:00 http://wuot.org/mt/archives/2012/03/000743-politifact_tennessee_10_knoxville_news_sentinel_washington_dc_reporter_michael_collins.html Each Friday morning, WUOT and the Knoxville News Sentinel bring you a feature called PolitiFact Tennessee. PolitiFact is a national Pulitzer-Prize-winning movement weighing the truth in the news... And Tennessee is the tenth state to join. WUOT's Chrissy Keuper... 743@http://sunsite.utk.edu/wuot/mt/ 2012-03-23T07:56:43-05:00 http://wuot.org/mt/archives/2012/03/000742-geologist_linda_kah_provides_an_update_on_the_mars_science_lab_mission.html At this moment, a one-ton spacecraft called Curiosity is 67 million kilometers from the Earth and counting. Its destination is the fourth rock from the Sun, the planet Mars. In August, the six-wheel rover will land on the Martian surface... 742@http://sunsite.utk.edu/wuot/mt/ 2012-03-22T15:52:59-05:00 http://wuot.org/mt/archives/2012/03/000741-the_all_taxa_biodiversity_inventory_in_the_great_smoky_mountains_an_update.html The All Taxa Biodiversity Inventory in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park began in 1998 and is still going strong. To date, biologists have identified over 7000 species in the Park, with more than 900 species that are new... 741@http://sunsite.utk.edu/wuot/mt/ 2012-03-22T09:15:05-05:00 http://wuot.org/mt/archives/2012/03/000740-east_tennessee_meteorologists_get_better_view_into_storms.html A radar dome towers over the National Weather Service office in Morristown. Image courtesy NWS Morristown. Since the end of World War II, weather radar has helped meteorologists see what their eyes cannot – winds swirling inside a thunderstorm,... 740@http://sunsite.utk.edu/wuot/mt/ 2012-03-20T13:15:20-05:00 http://wuot.org/mt/archives/2012/03/000739-politifact_tennessee_09_knoxville_news_sentinel_nashville_bureau_chief_tom_humphrey.html Each week, WUOT and the Knoxville News Sentinel bring you a feature called PolitiFact Tennessee. PolitiFact is a national Pulitzer-Prize-winning movement weighing the truth in the news... And Tennessee is the tenth state to join WUOT's Chrissy Keuper speaks... 739@http://sunsite.utk.edu/wuot/mt/ 2012-03-16T09:47:32-05:00 http://wuot.org/mt/archives/2012/03/000738-wuots_christine_jessel_with_the_southern_education_desk_score_in_knoxville.html Tennessee's State Collaborative on Reforming Education (SCORE) has been holding round table discussions statewide on the new process for evaluating teachers. SCORE will release a report to the Governorss office in June 2012 on how the new process is... 738@http://sunsite.utk.edu/wuot/mt/ 2012-03-15T09:52:37-05:00 http://wuot.org/mt/archives/2012/03/000737-writer_stephen_hall_and_the_everchanging_world_of_science.html Most of us think of science as a recitation of facts. For instance, there are 206 bones in the human body and the moon is about four billion years old. But writer Stephen Hall says science is actually a... 737@http://sunsite.utk.edu/wuot/mt/ 2012-03-13T17:45:00-05:00 http://wuot.org/mt/archives/2012/03/000736-author_barbara_kingsolver_new_environmentalism_in_the_appalachian_mountains.html Environmentalism in Appalachia is often a contentious issue, particularly with regard to the coal industry. Environmentalists in this region have found themselves at odds with not only coal companies, but also with communities founded on the work provided by... 736@http://sunsite.utk.edu/wuot/mt/ 2012-03-09T12:03:37-05:00 http://wuot.org/mt/archives/2012/03/000735-politifact_tennessee_08_knoxville_news_sentinel_washington_dc_reporter_michael_collins.html Each Friday morning, WUOT and the Knoxville News Sentinel bring you a feature called PolitiFact Tennessee. PolitiFact is a national Pulitzer-Prize-winning movement weighing the truth in the news... And Tennessee is the tenth state to join. WUOT's Chrissy Keuper... 735@http://sunsite.utk.edu/wuot/mt/ 2012-03-09T11:40:20-05:00 http://wuot.org/mt/archives/2012/03/000734-dialogue_hivaids_in_tennessee.html The Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) is one of the most well-publicized and most talked-about diseases in our history, and though transmission rates steadied and even dropped in the 1990's, today those rates are on the rise again. WUOT's Chrissy... 734@http://sunsite.utk.edu/wuot/mt/ 2012-03-08T09:18:05-05:00 http://wuot.org/mt/archives/2012/03/000733-newt_gingrich_in_knoxville_npr.html (Photo Credit: Michael Patrick, knoxnews.com) Newt Gingrich is the most recent GOP candidate to swing through East Tennessee in the build-up to the Super Tuesday primaries (Rick Santorum and Mitt Romney have also come to Knoxville in the week... 733@http://sunsite.utk.edu/wuot/mt/ 2012-03-06T05:10:00-05:00 http://wuot.org/mt/archives/2012/03/000732-politifact_tennessee_07_knoxville_news_sentinel_nashville_bureau_chief_tom_humphrey.html Each Friday morning, WUOT and the Knoxville News Sentinel bring you a feature called PolitiFact Tennessee. PolitiFact is a national Pulitzer-Prize-winning movement weighing the truth in the news... And Tennessee is the tenth state to join. WUOT's Chrissy Keuper... 732@http://sunsite.utk.edu/wuot/mt/ 2012-03-02T09:27:46-05:00 http://wuot.org/mt/archives/2012/02/000731-jeff_sharlet_on_faith_faithlessness_and_the_country_in_between.html Writer Jeff Sharlet. Jeff Sharlet is a writer whose beat is belief and faith in America. His books have chronicled fundamentalist dogma in the nation's capital and Wiccan ceremonies in the nation's heartland. His most recent work is a... 731@http://sunsite.utk.edu/wuot/mt/ 2012-02-28T16:02:00-05:00 http://wuot.org/mt/archives/2012/02/000730-politifact_tennessee_06_knoxville_news_sentinel_washington_dc_reporter_michael_collins.html Each Friday morning, WUOT and the Knoxville News Sentinel bring you a feature called PolitiFact Tennessee. PolitiFact is a national Pulitzer-Prize-winning movement weighing the truth in the news... And Tennessee is the tenth state to join. WUOT's Chrissy Keuper... 730@http://sunsite.utk.edu/wuot/mt/ 2012-02-24T08:27:29-05:00 http://wuot.org/mt/archives/2012/02/000729-black_pearl_sings.html On February 24, the University of Tennessees Clarence Brown Theatre opens its production of Frank Higgins' play "Black Pearl Sings". Set in the Great Depression, it follows the story of two women: Susannah (Susan Shunk) is a privileged, white,... 729@http://sunsite.utk.edu/wuot/mt/ 2012-02-24T05:35:00-05:00 http://wuot.org/mt/archives/2012/02/000728-us_vice_president_joe_biden_the_federal_community_college_to_career_fund.html Labor Secretary Hilda Solis and Dr. Jill Biden are touring community colleges and businesses in Tennessee and around the nation to promote a new federal program: The Community College to Career Fund. President Obama introduced the new $8 billion... 728@http://sunsite.utk.edu/wuot/mt/ 2012-02-23T10:15:10-05:00 http://wuot.org/mt/archives/2012/02/000727-former_attorney_general_alberto_gonzales_reflects_on_a_tumultuous_term_in_washington.html Alberto Gonzales served as U.S. Attorney General from 2005 to 2007. Eighty-two men and women have held the title of Attorney General of the United States. Perhaps few were more controversial than number eighty. In his two-and-a-half years as... 727@http://sunsite.utk.edu/wuot/mt/ 2012-02-22T15:31:28-05:00 http://wuot.org/mt/archives/2012/02/000726-politifact_tennessee_05_knoxville_news_sentinel_nashville_bureau_chief_tom_humphrey.html Each Friday morning, WUOT and the Knoxville News Sentinel bring you a feature called PolitiFact Tennessee. PolitiFact is a national Pulitzer-Prize-winning movement weighing the truth in the news... And Tennessee is the tenth state to join. WUOT's Chrissy Keuper... 726@http://sunsite.utk.edu/wuot/mt/ 2012-02-17T09:43:01-05:00 http://wuot.org/mt/archives/2012/02/000723-politifact_tennessee_04_knoxville_news_sentinel_washington_dc_reporter_michael_collins.html Each Friday morning, WUOT and the Knoxville News Sentinel bring you a feature called PolitiFact Tennessee. PolitiFact is a national Pulitzer-Prize-winning movement weighing the truth in the news... And Tennessee is the tenth state to join. WUOT's Chrissy Keuper... 723@http://sunsite.utk.edu/wuot/mt/ 2012-02-10T08:08:18-05:00 http://wuot.org/mt/archives/2012/02/000722-barry_bruce_using_photosynthesis_to_create_electricity.html As with many modern scientific breakthroughs, synthesizing sunlight into electricity was once in the realm of science fiction. Since the 1980's, scientists worldwide have researched using plant photosynthesis to harness solar power... but it's only in the last several... 722@http://sunsite.utk.edu/wuot/mt/ 2012-02-10T07:46:24-05:00 http://wuot.org/mt/archives/2012/02/000724-oak_ridge_symphonys_dan_allcott_talks_about_history_music_in_opera_brundibar.html The children's opera Brundibar features a timeless story, but it's definitely a product of its time: Prague, 1938. The opera is an allegory for the treatment Jews suffered at the hands of Nazi officials. In recent years, Brundibar has resurfaced... 724@http://sunsite.utk.edu/wuot/mt/ 2012-02-08T13:04:55-05:00 http://wuot.org/mt/archives/2012/02/000721-politifact_tennessee_03_knoxville_news_sentinel_nashville_bureau_chief_tom_humphrey.html Each Friday morning, WUOT and the Knoxville News Sentinel bring you a feature called PolitiFact Tennessee. PolitiFact is a national Pulitzer-Prize-winning movement weighing the truth in the news... And Tennessee is the tenth state to join. WUOT's Chrissy Keuper... 721@http://sunsite.utk.edu/wuot/mt/ 2012-02-03T09:03:20-05:00 http://wuot.org/mt/archives/2012/02/000720-southern_education_desk_reporter_christine_jessel_possible_changes_to_class_size_teacher_pay_in_store_for_2012.html Governor Bill Haslam wants to put more decision-making power in the hands of local school districts across the state, something that has Tennessee's teachers union worried. Christine Jessel covers education issues in East Tennessee for the Southern Education Desk. On... 720@http://sunsite.utk.edu/wuot/mt/ 2012-02-02T18:16:14-05:00 http://wuot.org/mt/archives/2012/02/000719-dialogue_five_years_since_black_wednesday.html (Photo Credit: Matthew Dixon, TN Journalist) Tennessee's sunshine law reads in part: "The General Assembly hereby declares it to be the policy of this State that the formation of public policy and decisions is public business and shall not... 719@http://sunsite.utk.edu/wuot/mt/ 2012-02-01T13:00:00-05:00 http://wuot.org/mt/archives/2012/02/000717-john_mcrae_and_wyn_miller_rebuilding_haiti.html It's been just over two years since a powerful earthquake hit the country of Haiti. Among the many efforts to rebuild the country, University of Tennessee architecture professor John McRae and former graduate-student Wyn Miller are working in an... 717@http://sunsite.utk.edu/wuot/mt/ 2012-02-01T09:35:46-05:00