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A deeper dive into data for Hamilton County Government. Act II for The Velvet Chair Experience in Chattanooga. These voices - and more - on this edition of “Scenic Roots.”

Data - when properly collected and interpreted - can paint a picture of what is happening, and why, in a community. Jennifer Baggett - for years, an analyst with the Chattanooga Police Department - recently started a new job as data analyst for Hamilton County Government.

Here in Chattanooga, the Velvet Chair Experience - a concert series fusing jazz and uptown soul - premiered last month at the Bessie Smith Cultural Center, where the next concert will be held on Sunday, June 25th starting at 6 PM.

On Wednesday afternoon, live here on WUTC, Chattanooga Mayor Tim Kelly joined us for our monthly conversation. Among the topics: the just unveiled Parks & Outdoors Plan, the city’s first in 25 years.

Chloé Morrison of LaunchTN on this year’s 3686 Festival. Learning for success: Acumen and UTC’s SMILE Fund. These voices - and more - on this edition of “Scenic Roots.”

LaunchTN is a public-private partnership that cultivates entrepreneurs and startups across the state, from Memphis to Nashville to Knoxville to Chattanooga and many places in between. Chloé Morrison - based here in Chattanooga - is with LaunchTN.

The SMILE Fund is a learning opportunity for students here on our campus, the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga. Students at the Gary W. Rollins College of Business manage the fund, a real stock portfolio like a mutual fund at an investment firm - for a real client: the UC Foundation.

Scott Martin on the Chattanooga Parks and Outdoors Plan. The Hunter Museum’s Lauren Nye on “In Nature’s Studio.” These voices - and more - on this edition of “Scenic Roots.”

The Chattanooga Parks and Outdoors Plan - now before the City Council for consideration - is a road map of commitments, from the short term to the long term, that would reinvent Chattanooga as a “city in a park" over the next generation.

As this country has evolved over nearly 250 years, so has the painting of its vast and varied landscapes. That artistic journey is at the heart of “In Nature’s Studio: Two Centuries of American Landscape Painting” - now on display at the Hunter Museum of American Art here in Chattanooga.