The Weekender: LifePoint’s prospective suitor + early voting tally

Spotlighting original BirdDog reporting and why a few headlines from elsewhere matter for Tennessee.

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The Weekender: Start-ups in Chattanooga, a fuel heist + a secret Target app

Spotlighting what you might have missed on BirdDog and why a few headlines from elsewhere matter for Tennessee.

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The Weekender: A BirdDog survey, a peek at brain health through the eye + tariff impacts on Tenn.

Spotlighting what you might have missed on BirdDog and why a few headlines from elsewhere matter for Tennessee.

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The Weekender: Excavating TN’s Medicaid expansion flop + SEC questions for La Croix

Spotlighting what you might have missed on BirdDog and why a few headlines from elsewhere matter for Tennessee.

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The Weekender: TennCare chief talks opioids + TN sales tax boost from SCOTUS?

Spotlighting what you might have missed on BirdDog and why a few headlines from elsewhere matter for Tennessee.

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The Weekender: PE investors like MDs, ‘survival math’ of being poor + the frailty of Social Security

Spotlighting what you might have missed on BirdDog and why a few headlines from elsewhere matter for Tennessee.

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The Weekender: McDonald’s kiosks, sneaky greens + Nashville’s growing pains

Spotlighting what you might have missed on BirdDog and why a few headlines from elsewhere matter for Tennessee.

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The Weekender: ‘Good jobs’ without a BA exist, keeping workers in financial shape to be healthy + would you tackle an MD?

A screenshot of Nashville from the Neighborhood Map of U.S. Obesity, which overlays different types of Census and national health data, visualizes where obesity is more highly concentrated around the city.  The scale ranges from blue, which is zero to  24.24 percent obesity to red, which is 52.39 percent to 100 percent.

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The Weekender: ‘Surprise bill’ protection, newspaper losses hurt muni financings + $1m in student loans

Keep at it. Photo by Nigel Tadyanehondo on Unsplash

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The Weekender: Surgeon General’s remarks at VUMC, blockchain hubs + a state tries to pull back price curtain

Spotted at a store on 11th Avenue North in Nashville on May 18, 2018.  Where’s the retail therapy-health white paper?

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