Sun
Sep 22 2013
08:48 pm
By: EricLykins
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Discussing:
- Feds indict civil rights group (3 replies)
- Georgia issues burn ban, first time in state history (2 replies)
- State of TN proposes exempting voucher students from standardized testing (1 reply)
- UAE asks for financial assistance? (1 reply)
- Are our deployed military going hungry? (1 reply)
- Tennessee passes bill to restrict college students' protests (1 reply)
- Inflation up, gas up, food up, consumer sentiment lowest ever (1 reply)
- Some AI uses are "outside the bounds of safe/reliable technology" (2 replies)
- A Letter to the U.S. Congress (1 reply)
- President: we can't take care of daycare, Medicare, Medicaid (1 reply)
- U.S. House Democratic Leadership says to Stop the Madness (1 reply)
- Am I missing something? (1 reply)
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- Siemens expending in Blount County, But... (BlountViews)
- Maryville Arts Walk - 3rd Thursday - today thru Oct. 15 (BlountViews)
- Candidate for U.S. Rep., against Burchett campaigns Saturday, 4/18/2026, Blount County (BlountViews)
- WATCH THIS SPACE. (Left Wing Cracker)
- America As It Is Right Now (RoaneViews)
- A friend sent this: From Captain McElwee's Tall Tales of Roane County (RoaneViews)
- The Meidas Touch (RoaneViews)
- Massive Security Breach Analysis (RoaneViews)
- (Whitescreek Journal)
- My choices in the August election (Left Wing Cracker)
- July 4, 2024 - aka The Twilight Zone (Joe Powell)
TN Politics
- From the bench to the ballot: how the U.S. Supreme Court undermines Black power (TN Lookout)
- US House votes to launch process to provide billions for Trump mass deportations (TN Lookout)
- TN GOP discussing eliminating the state’s only Democratic-held U.S. House seat (TN Lookout)
- Tennessee’s final 2027 budget shrinks disaster response fund by $55.8M (TN Lookout)
- Congressional Black Caucus members condemn Supreme Court’s gutting of the Voting Rights Act (TN Lookout)
- John Cole’s Tennessee: Rolling in dough (TN Lookout)
Knox TN Today
- Tales from the Lily Pad (Knox TN Today)
- Double delight: An afternoon at Sitting Bear Overlook and Sunset on Hawksbill (Knox TN Today)
- New principals for Gibbs MS, Blue Grass, West Haven, West High, Ftn. City (Knox TN Today)
- New Business Spotlight: Forté Fitness (Knox TN Today)
- Everyday Genius: The 2-Minute Rule That Changes Everything (Knox TN Today)
- Turner Homes is now Turner Companies (Knox TN Today)
- Nick McBride: On the Grow property records for last week (Knox TN Today)
- A Visit to the Top of Old Smoky with Stephen Lyn Bales (Knox TN Today)
- ArtBeat: Spotlight on the local arts events (Knox TN Today)
- 4/30 HEADLINES: News and events from the World, the USA, Tennessee, Knox & Historic Notes (Knox TN Today)
- More options emerging for East Tennessee home buyers this spring (Knox TN Today)
- Weekend Scene: Grits & Greens to Beer & Blooms and more (Knox TN Today)
Local TV News
- President Trump pushes for Tennessee redistricting to add Republican seat (WATE)
- State Attorney General looking into complaints about Fairfield Glade Community Club (WATE)
- 'From mild to wild:' What to explore on the 'adventure side' of the Smokies (WATE)
- KARM to host first-ever jewelry showcase (WATE)
- Power out, road closed after crash in East Knoxville (WATE)
- Knoxville Area Transit to provide shuttle service to Luke Combs concert (WATE)
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State News
- Chinese auto supplier to lay off 153 people in Chattanooga - Chattanooga Times Free Press (Times Free Press)
- Notre Dame hires Reggie Tucker as its next boys’ basketball coach - Chattanooga Times Free Press (Times Free Press)
- Video: What’s going there? Development underway for 478-unit project in Hixson - Chattanooga Times Free Press (Times Free Press)
- ☀️ A good day to write an essay - Chattanooga Times Free Press (Times Free Press)
Wire Reports
- Live Updates: Iran war pushes oil prices to 4-year high as Hegseth faces fresh round of questioning - CBS News (US News)
- Maine Gov. Janet Mills drops out of race to unseat Republican Sen. Susan Collins - The Washington Post (US News)
- Trump Withdraws Nomination of Casey Means for Surgeon General - The New York Times (US News)
- US economic growth rebounds 2% as consumer spending slows amid Iran war - The Guardian (Business)
- New Orleans sheriff indicted on charges of failing to prevent jailbreak and escape of 10 inmates - NBC News (US News)
- Stock Market Today: Why the Dow Is Crushing the Nasdaq Today - Barron's (Business)
- Jeffries lays out more targets for gerrymanders in response to GOP’s renewed push - Politico (US News)
- Iran’s supreme leader vows to protect nuclear and missile capabilities - AP News (US News)
- Cole Allen agrees to stay in jail before Trump assassination attempt trial - CNBC (US News)
- Google Cloud pulls ahead as Big Tech's AI bet swells to $700 billion - Reuters (Business)
- Berkshire’s Ailing Share Price Clouds Abel’s First Annual Meeting as CEO - Yahoo Finance (Business)
- Trump criticizes Germany's Merz, tells him to stop interfering over Iran - Reuters (US News)
- U.S. Debt Tops 100% of GDP - WSJ (Business)
- Oil prices hit wartime peak, pushing U.S. gas costs to highest since level July 2022 - CBS News (Business)
- European Central Bank keeps rates on hold in the face of inflation threat - CNBC (Business)
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To date, the failure to expand Medicaid/TennCare has cost the State of Tennessee ? in lost federal funding. (Source)
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Hard to read
Can you tell us more about East Tennessee? I couldn't read the map.
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(in reply to Treehouse)
As I tried to zoom in I lost the ability to see detail.
What was perfectly clear, though, is that the bulk of TN's uninsured are in its four largest urban areas.
Knowing the rates of free lunch students in those areas so well, the fact that those areas also contained the highest percentages of our uninsured came as no surprise.
I had to play with it for a
I had to play with it for a while to get it to do right. Tapping to zoom on my phone was easier than clicking on the desktop for some reason. Also, clicking the population button to turn it off gave a much clearer picture. Many of the 35%+ tracts are severely rural. Sevier County as a whole surprised me. I wouldn't mess with any part of texas. There a very very few areas in TN that look like Massachusetts.