Tag: Tennessee

May 8, 2023

In a recent vote, the Murfreesboro city council, in Tennessee, came to a unanimous decision to approve the next steps in the process for building a waste transfer station that will also turn trash into renewable energy. This project, costing […]

February 16, 2021

In eastern Tennessee, doctors have seen firsthand how a hard-line immigration policy can affect the health and well-being of a community. In 2018, federal agents raided a meatpacking plant in Morristown, a manufacturing hub in the Tennessee Valley, and detained […]

December 2, 2020

Hospitals in much of the country are trying to cope with unprecedented numbers of COVID-19 patients. As of Monday, 96,039 were hospitalized, an alarming record that far exceeds the two previous peaks in April and July of just under 60,000 […]

May 22, 2020

Hospitals around the country are afraid to send out hundreds of thousands of bills related to COVID-19 testing. That’s because Congress mandated there would be no copays and no out-of-pocket costs for patients. But many employers with self-funded health plans […]

February 5, 2019

A recycler in Northeast Tennessee announced its plans to close its operations in March. According to a Recycling Today report, Tri City Waste Paper Co. Inc. in Kingsport, Tenn., also announced it will stop taking recyclables on February 15. Tri […]

November 26, 2018

Meridian Waste, an integrated, non-hazardous solid waste services company, announced its asset acquisition of two construction and demolition (C&D) landfills located in Knoxville, Tenn. Poplar View Landfill at 1730 McMillan Station Road and Riverside Landfill at 3330 Delrose Drive have […]

May 8, 2017

The current level of transit service in Memphis is bleak. So a week ago, 11 Shelby County public defenders took part in Bus Rider’s Day, which Commercial Appeal columnist David Waters called “an exercise in empathy and, as it turned […]