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Interrobang: a BirdDog era. then: A journalistic experiment exploring readers and news in Tennessee. By @hollyfletcher Go live: March 21, 2018

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Hi to all the new followers. If you're curious about what this is then read the "Welcome" post to get to know BirdDog: https://t.co/WpJOfdy71u

Then about Phase II, which started in June: https://t.co/z6y0a56jyc

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‘Reimagined’ is a half-hearted concession we need new ideas, new business models, new ways of thinking to navigate and flourish in the future. None is accomplished by reimagining what already exists.

https://t.co/LqPZKaS3Q4 #thinkwild

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Special shout-out to @haleyzap @AngelaBee @CarlySotura for kicking off the first @neltweets x @BGCMidTN showcase.

These #womenintech are showing off a tiny fraction of the paths in #tech #STEM.

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@readbirddog #thinkwild

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The demand for the Y program coincides with Nashville’s prolonged growth spurt that has upset a longstanding balance between wages and the cost-of-living.

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“I know the economic landscape in Middle Tennessee has changed dramatically over the last five years,” said Vona Wilson, chaplain for the YMCA of Middle Tennessee. “For people’s emotional and spiritual health, financial health is a major factor.”

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Four years ago, @YMCAofMiddleTN found people asking for prayers for their financial struggles in the prayer request boxes. They started offering @DaveRamsey’s Financial Peace University
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looking to talk with companies (preferably in TN) with personal finance tools/resources/education for employees, or thinking about implementing. I have an ASAP reason right now + some longer-term plans. Email: contact @ readbirddog dot com

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Tennessee was one of 14 states that saw a statistically significant increase in the number of uninsured people from 2016 to 2017. Nationally it was flat per @uscensusbureau

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Nashvillians born 1981-1996 (aka millennials) have an average $23,429 in debt, excluding mortgages, per LendingTree. Nashville + Memphis have more education debt than the national average

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Alan Levine explains why ‘an unapologetic free market capitalist’ thinks East Tennessee can be healthier with less competition https://t.co/wwzECU18k3

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There won't be a Sept. 1 change that leaves anesthesiologists out-of-network in Middle Tennessee. The dispute remains an example of how two companies' stalled negotiations can leave patients and hospitals on the sidelines. https://t.co/GYnVOZC6HR

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Caveat being, of course, is that health systems are notoriously bad at thinking about patients as consumers. Meaning they don’t stay in touch and try to anticipate needs, say how Amazon, others predict #healthfurther18

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One small health system implemented an online scheduling system and underestimated how many patients would have email addresses. It’s helped them update how they contact people

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Intriguing point that’s getting reiterated at #healthfurther18 is that health systems struggle with staying in touch with people how they want to be communicated with

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Just in https://t.co/GYnVOZC6HR

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Fascinating conversation on medical cannabis with Dr. Michael Baron and @HillBlackburn, moderated by @hollyfletcher of @readbirddog #HealthFurther18

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In Charts: Drug, opioid, fentanyl + heroin overdoses in Tennessee https://t.co/cleU6bzdJ5

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As opioid overdose deaths rise, Tennessee’s community organizations find there’s no extra money in local budgets and it’s hard to find partners to commit. Many feel isolated https://t.co/e6jQVaWr7s

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It’s a Q&A period that includes people from the folks who stayed this long, and from facebook live viewers. That’s pretty nifty use of tech

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Dr. Basem Attum, who started his fourth year residency in orthopedics a week ago, had his medical career interrupted, and nearly ended, by an painkiller addiction #HealthyTN

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“That’s the sort of commitment we need from people” to remedy the opioid and addiction crisis, Genovese said. 2/