The program houses 58 women at a time, providing shelter and services to help restart lives. Author: Amelia Young (WBIR) Updated: 10:35 PM EDT May 3, 2021
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. The YWCA of Knoxville and the Tennessee Valley is getting a big donation $1 million from the Boyd Foundation.
It will go towards helping expand a program that helps women get back on their feet by finding independence and self-sufficiency, after facing difficult times. It is meant to help them restart their lives. YWCA s program does a tremendous job in helping women that have fallen on hard times get back on their feet and get back to building a successful life, said Randy Boyd, a philanthropist and board member of the Boyd Foundation.
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The Tennessee Senate is set to vote on the bill Wednesday. Author: WBIR Staff Updated: 9:30 PM EDT April 27, 2021
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. A bill meant to help pay for a new $65 million baseball stadium in downtown Knoxville was passed in the Tennessee House of Representatives Tuesday.
The bill would allow the local government to capture and use state and local sales tax collected in the area around the proposed stadium. Officials said that the money taken from sales tax could help cover up to 30% of the construction costs.
State Senator Becky Duncan Massey introduced the legislation along with Representative Jason Zachary. Knox County Mayor Glenn Jacobs testified to support the legislation and said that it must pass for the project to move forward. He said that stadium would create more than 3,000 jobs and would not add a tax burden on residents.
As The University of Tennessee Knoxvilleâs longest standing environmental organization, Students Promoting Environmental Action in Knoxville (SPEAK) has consistently campaigned for decisive environmental action for people and the planet.
An issue has recently been brought to our attention that in early December of 2020, Randy Boyd, President of the University of Tennessee, partnered with Texas A&M University to bid on the management and operations contract for the Y-12 National Security Complex in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, and the Pantex Plant in Amarillo, Texas.
If successful in receiving the bid, this contract would make our university a manufacturer of the nuclear weapons of mass destruction declared illegal under international law by the United Nations Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons.