Wendell Potter worked for large health care corporations CIGNA and HUMANA for 20 years. In a crisis of conscience, he quit. Two events prompted his decision: (1) observing the RAM health care clinic in Wise, VA where uninsured people were literally getting health care in a barn, and (2) the death of a 17-year-old girl who was denied coverage for a liver transplant. Since his resignation, he has been a strong and constant voice for finding a better way to provide health care in our country.

What is the scam?

What about Tennessee's RX Bill?

What are the chances for improvement?

What does Potter advise us all to do?

Dr. Robin Feierabend has diagnosed our health system in the U.S. as "failing." His conclusion is based on more than 30 years as a teaching physician and Professor Emeritus in Medicine at East Tennessee State University.

He and some high profile fellow professionals are trying to address the issue in an event to which the public is invited.

The prestigious panel includes a keynote address by Wendell Berry, author of four books on healthcare and a former insurance executive turned whistleblower. He is now president of the Center for Health and Democracy.

The event is set for Saturday, April 25, 2026 from 9:00 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. at the Kingsport Center for Higher Education, 300 West Market Street, Kingsport, TN. It is free and open to the public.

With early registration, attendees get a free lunch.

More information at www.tccihc.org.

What are the major problems in healthcare and how can we fix them? Details in this episode of This Conversation with host Teresa Keller.

Latin America journalist Cody Weddle was arrested, detained and deported from Venezuela in 2019. Now, he's living in Bogata,​ ​ Columbia and, again, covering news events in Venezuela. Furthermore, this international journalist is home grown -- in Meadowview, Virginia.

We trace his pathway from Patrick Henry High School to his current work feeding information about Venezuela and Columbia to news sources around the world.

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You may not see yourself as a soccer fan but this interview with Emory & Henry's soccer coach Ali al-Gashamyis about much more than the game.

It's about a vision... a plan to achieve it... and seeing early results. It's about bringing more of the world to Emory, Va with a taste of the struggle it takes for some people to get here. It's about the gifts and contributions they bring, even to a small community in SW Virginia.

And beneath it all lies the humble effort born from a refugee camp and a pair of soccer cleats from the Salvation Army.

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This show is about the Virginia Special Redistricting Election, scheduled for April 21. The referendum reflects a national battle for "fairness" in the mid-term elections in November.

There is one question: should the Va. Constitution be amended temporarily to allow redistricting? YES or NO.

Who started it and what's the other side doing about it? And, how will you vote on April 21?

Guests are Republican Steven Statzer and Democrat Julianne Miles, both from Washington County, VA

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When Emory resident Sabrina Durling-Jones took a teaching job for a semester at a university in Dubai, she did not expect that incoming missiles from Iran would be part of her experience. Hearing Patriot missiles take off to intercept the incoming attacks is now routine for Sabrina.

In This Conversation, we'll hear about this professor's experience in Dubai as the U.S. - Israeli war on Iran intensifies and Iran sends missiles to neighboring nations.

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In fall 2025, the U.S. began bombing boats from Venezuela and other countries, killing 130 people and claiming that they were narco terrorists and a threat to U.S. national security, which justified military action. On Jan. 3, 2026, the United States invaded Venezuela, arrested and imprisoned its president, and now says that the U.S. is now in charge of the oil industry in Venezuela.

What is the reaction of the Venezuelan people? Dr. Oleski Miranda Navarro, Chair of Hispanic Studies at Emory & Henry University, grew up in Venezuela and is now a dual citizen of both Venezuela and the United States and continues research in Latin America. Navarro was in Venezuela just a few weeks before the capture of the country's president and shares varying viewpoints of Venezuelans about these actions. He talks about his upbringing in the oil fields and the international significance of oil in this new relationship with the U.S.

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After a number of campuses in the national Job Corps program were told they were being shut down by the Labor Dept and the results of Elon Musk's DOGE investigation, supporters filed injunctions and court cases have dragged on from summer 2025 until Congress stepped in. Legislators superseded temporary injunctions that were keeping Job Corps programs running and funded the program through June 2027.

Marion, Virginia's campus Admission Manager Heather Goodpasture ignored warnings not to talk about the issues, but she did. Along with other defenders, they made the case for the value of the program.

In this episode, Goodpasture reviews the complicated and devastating steps in reviving the program for now and also describes basic needs for bringing the program back to its full measure from before the shut down.

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