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On Thursday afternoon, live here on WUTC, Chattanooga Mayor Tim Kelly joined us for our latest monthly conversation. Among the topics: the just-approved city budget; affordable housing; CARTA; train crossing warning systems; WalletHub; 423 Chain Breakers - and more.

“Destiny in Dayton” is the play for this year’s Scopes Festival. On Friday and Saturday, the festival in Dayton will commemorate the 1925 trial of John Scopes, a high school teacher accused of violating a Tennessee law that barred the teaching of evolution in public schools.

What’s on the road of cutting edge in transportation, here in the Southeast and beyond? Think of alternative fuels, sustainability, supply chains, vehicle electrification and lithium ion batteries - all on the agenda for this year’s State of Freight Forum, presented by Thrive Regional Partnership.

An intermission is a short break - for a play, in a movie, at a concert. For the nonprofit ArtsBuild, “Intermission” is the annual event that celebrates the impact of the arts here in the Chattanooga area. It takes place Wednesday, September 25th - starting at 5:30 PM - at Chattanooga Theatre Centre.

BJ Coleman is an alum of our campus here at UTC - and a former Green Bay Packer. Next Tuesday, September 17th, he will be the featured guest for the inaugural Leadership and Ethics Speaker Series here at UTC - hosted by the Gary W. Rollins College of Business.

(Aired Thu 10/17/24) This weekend, it’s time to “Fire Up the Fields”: Saturday at Sculpture Fields at Montague Park, starting at 5 PM - and after sundown is the signature burn of a 30-foot wooden sculpture designed and built by local artist Andrew Nigh.

On Thursday, economist Dr. Art Laffer visits our campus, the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, for a talk titled "Taxes Have Consequences: An Income Tax History of the U.S.” Dr. Claudia Kramer is the Scott L. Probasco Distinguished Chair of Free Enterprise and Professor of Economics at UTC’s Gary W. Rollins College of Business.

How do we make sense of economics? Here on our campus, the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, Dr. Claudia Kramer is the Scott L. Probasco Distinguished Chair of Free Enterprise at the Gary W. Rollins College of Business.

(Aired Tues 7/08/25) Each year, United Way of Greater Chattanooga awards grants to nonprofits that make a difference across our community. This year, volunteer grant reviewers have been more involved than ever.

(Aired Tues 12/03/24) Two years ago, the Urban League of Greater Chattanooga released its first-ever “State of Black Chattanooga” report on the conditions for African-Americans in this city and Hamilton County. Where do things stand now - and where might they be heading?