Scott Barker

• National Geographic Traveler puts Smokies in 'Places with Troubles' category Published 11/06/2009 at midnight

  The Great Smoky Mountains aren't so great after all, according to National Geographic Traveler magazine.

• Magazine: Smokies ringed by ugliness Published 11/05/2009 at 4:40 p.m.

  KNOXVILLE - The Great Smoky Mountains aren't so great after all, according to National Geographic Traveler magazine.

• TVA ditches plan to allow public access to ash spill site Published 11/03/2009 at midnight

  Responding to residents' concerns, the Tennessee Valley Authority has scrapped plans to allow unfettered public access to an observation post overlooking the Kingston ash spill cleanup site.

• Park reading honors literary icon James Agee Published 11/02/2009 at midnight

  They gathered at James Agee Park on a breezy autumn afternoon, but aficionados of the Knoxville-born literary lion celebrated the man who famously wrote about summer evenings in the Fort Sanders neighborhood.

• Alabama residents split on ash storage deal Published 11/01/2009 at midnight

  UNIONTOWN, Ala. - Day in and day out, locomotives dragging 85 to 110 gondola cars turn down a four-mile spur line to the Arrowhead Landfill just outside this weathered Southern town.

• Economists aim to reduce businesses' gas emissions Published 10/30/2009 at midnight

  With legislation and regulatory rules in the works to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, economists are weighing in on how to get businesses to alter their smokestack behavior.

• Despite loss, Vol fans retain hope Published 10/24/2009 at 10:54 p.m. 27 Comments

  TUSCALOOSA, Ala. - Against all reason on this October Saturday, the hope that flickers within University of Tennessee football fans is as frisky as a bluetick hound.

• Failed nonprofit's buildings auctioned Published 10/15/2009 at midnight

  Two properties once held by a defunct Knoxville nonprofit that received hundreds of thousands of dollars in public grants and loans were bought at auction Wednesday by a Morristown savings and loan.

• Savings and loan buys beleaguered nonprofit's properties Published 10/14/2009 at 11:14 a.m.

  KNOXVILLE - A Morristown-based savings and loan bought at auction today two properties once held by a defunct Knoxville nonprofit that received hundreds of thousands of dollars in public grants and loans.

• Payout exceeds payback: TCCD got $1.6M in funding, built 4 houses for $420,000 Published 10/11/2009 at midnight

  A now-defunct nonprofit with a mission to build affordable housing obtained more than $1.6 million in grants, loans and lines of credit over the past four years but built and sold only four houses for a total of $420,000 after ...

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