The Morning Pointe Foundation, together with Dr. Lauren N. Whitehurst, Ph.D., assistant professor at the University of Kentucky specializing in cognitive neuroscience, will present “Getting a Good Night’s Rest: Sleep Implications for Healthy Aging,” a virtual Caregiver Café seminar and live question and answer period about the latest research on how sleep affects the brain as it ... (click for more)

CHI Memorial has invested in "life-changing technology" – the Ion by Intuitive endoluminal system, a minimally invasive robotic assisted bronchoscopy procedure designed to address a challenging aspect of lung biopsy. The system represents an advancement in procedures that enable physicians to reach nodules far into the peripheral lung and provide them unprecedented stability and ... (click for more)

A man who was killed while driving along Highway 153 on Tuesday night had just carried out a drug deal with the shooter, police said. Stewart Brodie Luttrell, 35, was killed in the incident that resulted in traffic being clogged for hours. Luttrell's wife, 27, was also shot. Their two-year-old son was not injured. Police said Wednesday night that h omicide investigators had ... (click for more)

The County Commission made last-minute redistricting changes to its 11-member plan at a lengthy meeting on Wednesday. The commission is expected to pass the plan next Wednesday and send it on to state officials for their approval. Officials said the completed plan is within deviation standards (not having one or more districts too much larger or smaller than others) and keeps ... (click for more)

I’ve ‘seen some stuff’ in my time. I have followed politics for many years. I’m retired, I’m a realist and a Vietnam veteran, pretty much in that order. I’m not an alarmist or a conspiracy theorist. That said, I have never in my life been so concerned about the future of this Republic. Politics was once a legitimate contest of ideas, put forth by political figures who were sincere, ... (click for more)

I have taken the position that mandates of any kind that limit personal freedoms are awful. And I have watched with sorrow what has happened at Blue Cross Blue Shield of Tennessee and is now happening at CHI Memorial Hospital in Chattanooga. Good people are losing jobs all across America rather than surrender their personal beliefs. I also mourn the COVID vaccine has been divided ... (click for more)