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As Chattanooga Parks and Outdoors presents this year's Earth Week events, this City is also highlighting its push to join the National Park City movement - following London and Adelaide, Australia. Professor Chris Daniels was a key force behind Adelaide joining the movement.

Chattanooga is home to the longest, continuously staged Armed Forces Day Parade in this country. The grand marshal for Friday's parade - the 75th: retired U.S. Army Gen. B.B. Bell. I spoke with him - and Mickey McCamish of the Chattanooga Area Veterans Council.

Here in Southeast Tennessee, the Chattanooga Regional Homeless Coalition applies for Federal funds for agencies in this area that are working to end homelessness. Mackenzie Kelly - who led the Coalition on an interim basis since last summer - was recently named its new executive director.

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 Tues 2/24/26) When prices rise - and when they fall - they get our attention. Here at UTC, Dr. Claudia Kramer is the Scott L. Probasco Distinguished Chair of Free Enterprise at the Gary W. Rollins College of Business.

Throughout his decades in public life, Steve Forbes has made his case for free enterprise. Last week, the chairman and editor-in-chief of Forbes Media brought that case here to UTC.