The Time Has Come to Make a Change
As I mentioned last week, we are over a year into my writing about the pandemic. It started at a time there were fewer than 50 deaths in the United States from COVID-19. A time when...
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COVID-19: 3/15/2021 Update (International, National, State, Local, KCS, UTK)
Welcome to another week. Happy Spring Break for those who get one. We are very close to cementing some of our gains. Pleas consider that as you make your plans, not only for this week, but...
COVID-19: 3/12/2021 Update (State, Local, KCS, UTK + UTK Briefing)
Welcome to the weekend and, for those of us with school kids about, spring break. I’m sure a number of people will travel for spring break, just as they’ve always done. Many of us will not....
A Follow Up and Ways to Help
After the article earlier this week about Dogan-Gaither Flats and groups working to help men transition from incarceration to productive lives, a reader asked about women. Women make up about 10% of prisoners nationally, but that...
COVID-19: 3/11/2021 Update (State, Local, KCS, UTK + Health Department Briefing)
A year ago, today I made my first mention of COVID-19 on this blog. I wrote about the city council meeting in which Dr. Buchanan (it was also the first time I’d ever mentioned her) spoke...
COVID-19: 3/10/2021 Update (State, Local, KCS, UTK)
Well, Urban Boy turns six today. We celebrated with our little pod on Friday night, got outdoor, distanced presents from his dad’s mom on Sunday and will get presents in a parking garage from his parents...
COVID-19: 3/9/2021 Update (State, Local, KCS, UTK)
Vaccines are proliferating as is the sunshine. The daylight hours are growing longer, and we’ll get more of it in our waking hours starting this weekend. Case counts and deaths are at their lowest level in...
COVID-19 Update (International, National, State, Local, KCS and UTK)
Welcome to another week. It promises to be a beautiful week in east Tennessee. Let’s hope the news is as pleasant. Unfortunately, there are signs at the international level that we may be losing our downward...
COVID-19: 3/5/2021 (State, Local, KCS, and UTK)
Happy weekend, everyone. I hope you do something special or fun in the sunshine. We should be seeing shoots of green, soon. Last spring was beautiful and this one is filled with far more hopefulness. I...
COVID-19: 3/4/2021 Update (State, Local, KCS, UTK, and Today’s Health Department Briefing)
When will the pandemic end? We aren’t likely to wake up one morning and realized it ended while we slept, though that would be nice. Is there a personal marker you have in mind? Lists of...