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On today’s show, we hit on the following:
The Kingsport BMA is asking for money from taxpayers for education - there’s a new school in town, and it needs to be funded. Projected costs are more than projected revenues for next year, and are expected to fall about one-and-a-half million dollars short.
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Mayor Dennis Phillips said Tuesday he intends to ask City Attorney Mike Billingsley to brief the Board of Mayor and Aldermen next week on the situation involving Officer Bryan Carter. Carter, an 11-year veteran with the Kingsport Police Department, was suspended three days without pay in February after a TBI probe of Carter’s traffic [...]

On today’s Dailies, Diana and I covered the following:
An elderly woman is dead, and three more were injured in a Church Hill apartment fire. Church Hill police say two men acted heroically during a fire at The Landings apartments in Church Hill Sunday afternoon, saving one man from a burning apartment. The men, [...]

Kingsport police say a Fall Branch man was killed yesterday afternoon when the motorcycle he was riding struck a pickup waiting at a red light. Traffic was stopped for the red light on Wilcox Drive at the Meadowview Parkway intersection when Brian Davenport approached the intersection at a high rate of speed and was [...]

A longtime employee of Alladin Plastics at the Phipps Bend Industrial Park was killed Tuesday night when he was reportedly crushed by a machine that molds plastic chairs. According to an Alladin employee who asked to remain unnamed, 61 year old supervisor Lonnie Mowell was attempting to free a chair that had been jammed [...]

On today’s show, the following stories were discussed and bandied about:
Sullivan County District Attorney Greeley Wells says he demands higher professional standards than were displayed in an October traffic stop by Kingsport Police. As reported in the times news on Friday, a Kingsport officer seized $2,675 during the traffic stop in question from two [...]

On today’s show, we got some bad news to start things off.
Some 300 Eastman Chemical Co. employees — including 200 in Kingsport — are being notified this week that they no longer have a job. The Kingsport-based company announced March 9 it would cut 200 to 300 positions worldwide in four to six weeks [...]

The appraised value of real property in Sullivan County is up more than $1.87 billion, compared to four years ago, based on a countywide reappraisal. Property owners will soon be receiving reappraisal notices in the mail, as postcards will be mailed for each of the nearly 89,000 parcels of property in Sullivan County. These [...]

What looks like a loophole in federal law will allow Eastman Chemical Co. to bypass notifying the state of Tennessee of its upcoming layoff. Eastman is expected to layoff between 200 and 300 people this month. It has been four weeks since Eastman announced it would lay off those employees in four to [...]