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  • Tennessee Opioid Abatement Council approves first round of community grant funding; a state bill that would allow college boards to close certain meetings relating to "sensitive" topics fails in a House subcommittee; U.S. Department of Energy awards Tennessee a grant to install solar microgrids at rural medical centers; and more.
  • Tennessee joins Kentucky and Ohio in lawsuit against the U.S. Security and Exchange Commission; TBI investigates an officer-involved shooting in Fentress County; Knoxville's population grew by 13 thousand new residents last year; and more.
  • Transparency debate over tax break legislation; Jellico Regional Hospital shuts down; lawmakers want to bring back whole milk in public schools; and more.
  • A Fort Campbell soldier faces federal charges for selling top-secret information to a Chinese conspirator; US Reps Steve Cohen and Tim Burchett files a bill to increase transparency of the TVA's integrated resource plan process; January unemployment data from the Tennessee Department of Labor and Workforce Development; and more.
  • Post-election summary for Tennessee; and a recap of Knoxville City Council's meeting on Tuesday.
  • A Tennessee legislative update on business taxes; Tennessee's workplace discrimination filings; traffic stops; and an update on East Tennessee real estate.
  • Caregivers of adults are present with unique challenges in the United States. This week on HealthConnections, Dr. Carole Myers, a professor emeritus in the University of Tennessee College of Nursing, talks to Dr. Joel Anderson, a faculty member and researcher at the UT College of Nursing, about the demographics that make up caregivers and ways to better support caregivers.
  • The blighted campus has been a source of concern in Knoxville, and some community members are calling for change at the historically Black college.
  • Knoxville College leaders began an accreditation application through the Transnational Association of Christian Schools and Colleges. But the HBCU is in debt and has a federal tax lien on it. Its leaders don't live in Knoxville, and won't answer questions about the school's viability.
  • Gun violence is a wicked problem. Wicked problems are difficult, maybe impossible, to solve. This is because wicked problems are complex, dynamic, and generally symptoms of other problems. Wicked problems are characterized by different stakeholders representing radically different perspectives and wicked problems are dynamic, not stable or static. In this episode Dr. Carole R. Myers and Dr. Katrina Green, a board-certified emergency physician, discuss approaches to addressing gun violence.
  • TVA doesn't track how many cryptocurrency mines are setting up in the region, but CEO Jeff Lyash confirmed he met with 300 crypto miners to discuss demand on the grid. Meanwhile, residential ratepayers might see more crypto mines entering communities, and higher electricity rates. Tennessee is trying to pass laws that would protect crypto miners from zoning restrictions.
  • This week on HealthConnections is the second part to the conversation with Senator Dr. Richard Briggs. Dr. Carole Myers, a professor emeritus in the University of Tennessee College of Nursing, talks with state senator and physician, Dr. Richard Briggs, about Juul settlement funds and disparities in rural healthcare assess.