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		   Sep 22 2013
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		   By: EricLykins
		   
	     
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Discussing:
- GOP dereliction of duty, SNAP must be funded (3 replies)
- Tennessee sheriff defends jailing liberal activist for posting Trump meme (2 replies)
- Terrible things are happening outside. (5 replies)
- Medicare Advantage: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (1 reply)
- Electricity prices are rising (2 replies)
- Does Silly Congress care about chaos in cattle market? (4 replies)
- East TN Health Depts. free flu shots today, Oct. 21, 2025 (1 reply)
- Building housing Knox County Democratic Party headquarters up for sale (3 replies)
- Watch how scam victims lose millions to a con with a modern twist (1 reply)
- Knoxville SOUP proposals Announced for Sept. 23, 2025 (1 reply)
- No Kings Rally - Saturday, Oct. 18, 2025 (1 reply)
- Study finds Knoxville has the second worst drivers in the US (3 replies)
TN Progressive
- WATCH THIS SPACE. (Left Wing Cracker)
- Report on Blount County, TN, No Kings event (BlountViews)
- 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)
- Lee's Fried Chicken in Alcoa closed (BlountViews)
- Alcoa, Hall Rd. Corridor Study meeting, July 30, 2024 (BlountViews)
- My choices in the August election (Left Wing Cracker)
- July 4, 2024 - aka The Twilight Zone (Joe Powell)
- Chef steals food to serve at restaurant? (BlountViews)
TN Politics
- Food assistance funding cliff approaching as shutdown persists (TN Lookout)
- Local leaders rush to help, but can’t fill massive SNAP void (TN Lookout)
- A high percentage of rural Tennesseans use SNAP, as funding set to dry up (TN Lookout)
- Can Democrats flip Tennessee’s 7th Congressional District? (TN Lookout)
- Memphis school board expands student busing to reduce absences caused by immigration enforcement (TN Lookout)
- Shutdown double whammy: SNAP food benefits ending and federal workers go unpaid (TN Lookout)
Knox TN Today
- How about that new camera, Badger? (Knox TN Today)
- Pumpkin Tower (Knox TN Today)
- Victoria Niederhauser + Misty Goodwin + Charles Lomax + Dr. H. Randolph + Joseph Zappa ++ (Knox TN Today)
- Weekend Scene from ‘The Birds’ to Halloween Bar Crawl & more (Knox TN Today)
- UT Arboretum Society: Identifying local birds of prey (Knox TN Today)
- Knox County real estate loans top $163M (Knox TN Today)
- HEADLINES: World & national news to state & local news (Knox TN Today)
- Agent spotlight: Mindy Newman and her golden duo bringing comfort to children (Knox TN Today)
- Staged reading of Atomic Lullaby on November 2 (Knox TN Today)
- Paper sculpture exhibition ahead (Knox TN Today)
- Smoky Mountain Tales: A conversation with Charles Maynard (Knox TN Today)
- The Book Whisperer has perfect Halloween read (Knox TN Today)
Local TV News
- Knoxville students with disabilities brew success at school coffee shop (WATE)
- Hamblen County nonprofits prepare as shutdown threatens SNAP benefits (WATE)
- 'We're able to change lives' Unique public school offering more options in Blount County (WATE)
- From book stories to boutiques: Find out what downtown Maryville has to offer (WATE)
- One dead in early morning Clarkrange house fire (WATE)
- 'Life-changing' RAM's digital dental lab gives people a reason to smile (WATE)
News Sentinel
State News
- Hamilton County high school graduation rate surpasses state for the second year in a row - Chattanooga Times Free Press (Times Free Press)
- Chattanooga Now Events - 2000s Themed Music Night in Chattanooga – Dress Up & Sing Along! - Chattanooga Times Free Press (Times Free Press)
- Vols excited to have full allotment of tight ends again - Chattanooga Times Free Press (Times Free Press)
- Tennessee governor offers up food resource site - Chattanooga Times Free Press (Times Free Press)
Wire Reports
- Stock Market Today: Nasdaq Drops 300 Points; S&P 500 Falls After Meta, Microsoft Earnings — Live Updates - The Wall Street Journal (Business)
- Judge says she’ll likely order Trump administration to send SNAP funds to states - The Washington Post (US News)
- Judge sentences former Jan. 6 defendant for hoax threat near Obama's home - NPR (US News)
- Teacher suing for $40 million after being shot by her 6-year-old student testifies in civil trial - ABC News (US News)
- Spiraling effects of the shutdown leave lawmakers grasping for ways to end it - AP News (US News)
- Apple reports fourth quarter results - Apple (Business)
- Amazon Stock Jumps On Earnings Beat, Strong AWS Growth - Investor's Business Daily (Business)
- Zohran Mamdani and Democratic Socialists prepare for complicated partnership - Politico (US News)
- US Senate votes to end Trump’s global tariffs on more than 100 countries - The Guardian (US News)
- Trump sets 7,500 annual limit for refugees entering US. It’ll be mostly white South Africans - AP News (US News)
- Fiserv stock extends decline as details of strategy overhaul, guidance reset emerge (FI:NYSE) - Seeking Alpha (Business)
- Cramer upgrades Microsoft; says Starbucks CEO tells him what he has been waiting to hear - CNBC (Business)
- Mortgage Rates Dip to 6.17% After Fed’s Second Cut This Year - Realtor.com (Business)
- US and China agree to one-year pause on punitive tariffs - Engadget (Business)
- Meta Shares Drop 12% After Trump’s Megabill Casts $16 Billion Tax Charge - Forbes (Business)
Local Media
Lost Medicaid Funding
    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.