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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.”

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.

Juneteenth commemorates the emancipation of enslaved African-Americans after the Civil War. Eric Atkins is co-chairman of the Unity Group, which is hosting several events in Chattanooga leading up - and during - the holiday on Monday, June 19th.

How can - and should - music help drive what cities are and what they can be? Shain Shapiro is the author of the new book “This Must Be the Place: How Music Can Make Your City Better." Last month, he visited Chattanooga - and Yellow Racket Records - as part of his book tour.

Credit cards, installment loans and cash advances are examples of what are known as “small-dollar credit products.” Brandon Bolen - an economist at Mississippi College - can tell you plenty about them. This week, he will give a talk on our campus - the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga - for the Probasco Lecture Series.

The question of “Is there life on other worlds?” is far from just a modern phenomenon. Just ask Dr. Andrew Davison. On Monday, he will give a talk - titled, “Astrobiology and Christian Belief” - on our campus, the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga

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.

How do tariffs - and talk about tariffs - affect the economy? 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 Weds 9/17/25) Tariffs are about more than economics - they’re also about politics, as Dr. Claudia Kramer at UTC's Gary W. Rollins College of Business explains.

(Aired Weds 10/01/25) With Halloween on the horizon, a reimagining of “Dracula” is now on stage here on our campus, the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga.