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Medicaid expansion to be discussed at Tuesday forum

Posted at 6:26 am November 1, 2021
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Medicaid expansion will be discussed during a virtual forum Tuesday. It’s the first of two community forums about expanding Medicaid in Tennessee.

The first forum is scheduled from noon to 1:30 p.m. Tuesday, November 2. It will feature professionals discussing the need for expanding Medicaid, a press release said.

The second forum, scheduled for November 16, will feature legislators discussing ways to achieve this goal, the press release said.

“Failure to expand Medicaid in Tennessee is severely impacting the health and welfare of Tennesseans,” the press release said. It said there are more than 300,000 uninsured Tennesseans, and Tennessee is second in the number of hospital closures and leads the nation in terms of hospital closures per capita. Also, many of the uninsured are essential workers whose lack of insurance places them at increased risk just to care for their families, the press release said. And Tennessee is failing to accept $900 million in federal money that would cover the cost of expansion for more than six years, the release said.

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Filed Under: Community, Federal, Front Page News, Government, Health, Nonprofits, State, Top Stories Tagged With: Alisa LaPolt, Child Advocacy Center of Anderson County, Judy Roitman, Kathryn Crawford, League of Women Voters, Margaret Durgin, Medicaid expansion, National Alliance on Mental Illness, Neil McBride, Tennessee Health Care Campaign, Tennessee Justice Center

Legal Aid Society promotes Janet Mynatt to managing attorney in Oak Ridge

Posted at 12:56 pm December 16, 2013
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Janet Mynatt

Janet Mynatt

Legal Aid Society of Middle Tennessee and the Cumberlands, Tennessee’s largest nonprofit law firm, announced on Monday that it has promoted Janet Mynatt to managing attorney of the Oak Ridge office. Mynatt is replacing former Managing Attorney Neil McBride, who retired this month after 35 years of service.

Mynatt joined Legal Aid Society as a staff attorney at the Oak Ridge office in 2001. In 2005-06, she was awarded a John G. Brooks Consumer Law Fellowship through the National Legal Aid and Defender Association and the National Consumer Law Center. She graduated from the Tennessee Bar Association’s Leadership Law Program in 2009 and served as president of the Anderson County Bar Association in 2011.

“Janet is an outstanding attorney and natural leader—the perfect person to fill the big shoes of Neil McBride, who has managed the Oak Ridge office since 1978,” said Gary Housepian, executive director of Legal Aid Society. “She has helped many, many people in the Oak Ridge area throughout her time at Legal Aid Society and has been an active member of the community. I have no doubt that our Oak Ridge office will continue to have a significant impact in Oak Ridge and throughout the surrounding region under Janet’s leadership.” [Read more…]

Filed Under: Community, Front Page News, Nonprofits Tagged With: Anderson County Bar Association, Gary Housepian, Janet Mynatt, Legal Aid Society, Legal Aid Society of Middle Tennessee and the Cumberlands, managing attorney, Neil McBride, Partnership for Patients with the Dayspring Family Health Center, Tennessee Bar Association Disability Law Section, Tennessee Valley Coalition for the Homeless

TVA retiring eight coal units at three plants

Posted at 9:25 pm November 25, 2013
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Colbert Fossil Plant

The Tennessee Valley Authority is retiring all five coal units at the Colbert Fossil Plant on the Pickwick Reservoir on the Tennessee River in Alabama. (Photo courtesy TVA)

The Tennessee Valley Authority board of directors recently approved a plan that will retire eight coal units at three plants with more than 3,000 megawatts of combined generating capacity.

The retirements affect all five coal units at the Colbert Fossil Plant in Tuscumbia, Ala.; one of two operating coal units at Widows Creek Fossil Plant in Stevenson, Ala., and two of three coal units at the Paradise Fossil Plant near Central City, Ky. Paradise Unit 3, one of TVA’s largest coal units, will continue to operate.

A number of these units were already idled or scheduled for idling and/or retirement based on an agreement with the Environmental Protection Agency, TVA said in a press release. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Federal, Front Page News, Government Tagged With: Bill Johnson, Bill Sansom, board of directors, coal, coal units, Colbert Fossil Plant, debt, energy efficiency, environment, Environmental Protection Agency, gas, gas plant, gas-fired plant, hydro, Integrated Resource Plan, megawatts, Neil McBride, nuclear, Paradise Fossil Plant, public utility, rates, renewables, Tennessee Valley Authority, TVA, Widows Creek Fossil Plant

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