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Twenty-Five Years Later, Remember the People — Not Just the Day

A quarter century after September 11, 2001, remembrance is becoming something different.

September 11, 2026

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Ukraine Needs Ammunition. America’s Nuclear Stockpile Needs Explosives. Both Demands Meet in Kingsport.

Federal auditors say demand for explosive material is at an “all-time high” because of U.S.

September 10, 2026

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Washington Set Out to Protect U.S. Polysilicon. A Tennessee Producer Says the Policy Misses the Target.

The White House says new trade measures will rebuild domestic polysilicon production.

September 10, 2026

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Oak Ridge Is Expanding Its Nuclear-Weapons Production Capability While Its Flagship Uranium Plant Runs Years Late

Y-12 has restored enriched-uranium purification and is planning new weapons-component manufacturing capacity.

September 10, 2026

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Eastman’s Hearing Is Over. Tennessee’s 10-Year Hazardous-Waste Decision Is Not.

The proposed Kingsport permit covers eight surface impoundments, a hazardous-waste landfill, groundwater monitoring and corrective action.

September 9, 2026

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Cychlorphine Is Showing Up in Tennessee. Different Systems Are Counting Different Things.

Crime labs, toxicology units, clinical laboratories and wastewater researchers are looking at different specimens for different purposes.

September 9, 2026

Civic Conversations

A Mission Is Not Yours to Own

A Mission Held in Trust asks what institutions owe the people who came before them — and those who come next

The Redemption ProjectSeptember 9, 2026

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Nashville’s $772 Million Convention Center Bond Plan Is Mostly Refinancing. Expansion Construction Debt Would Come Later.

About 55% of the proposed Series 2026 issue would refinance existing debt.

September 9, 2026

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TVA Says a Kingston Construction Halt Could Leave More Than $500 Million Unrecoverable.

The sealed federal ruling has pushed the Kingston dispute beyond environmental paperwork and into a harder question: how much money and construction can accumul…

September 9, 2026

Systems Explained

The Judge Said $200. The Clerk’s Ledger May Say More.

In Tennessee, a criminal fine can be only one part of the bill. Court costs, litigation taxes, later fees and collection charges can turn the amount announced i…

The Redemption ProjectSeptember 8, 2026

Tennessee Good Work

Paul Schmitz, Founder of ShowerUp

Paul Schmitz did not set out to build a mobile shower ministry.

The Redemption ProjectSeptember 6, 2026

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The Version of You That Gets There First

You apply for the apartment, job or loan. But before anyone decides, another version of you may already be in the room — assembled from records, histories, scor…

September 6, 2026

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