Welcome to the Blount Partnership Media Room. Below you will find resources from the Blount County area from our chamber and industry events and partners.
Tennesseans pay second-lowest share of income in state and local taxes of any state according to a new study by HireHelper that compared taxes in all 50 states. Read more. The amount paid by the typical Tennessean in state and local taxes totaled $2,694 in 2018, which was was 44.4% lower than the national average…
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AMP Industries LLC DBA SERVPRO of Blount County, a local SERVPRO franchise received designation as a Woman Owned Business by the Governor’s Office of Diversity Business Enterprise for the State of Tennessee.
In the quest for advanced vehicles with higher energy efficiency and ultra-low emissions, Oak Ridge National Laboratory researchers are accelerating a research engine that gives scientists and engineers an unprecedented view inside the atomic-level workings of combustion engines in real time. The new capability is an engine built specifically to run inside a neutron beam…
J.L. and Martha Bond Goins were born to parents whose education ended with early elementary school. Neither had the financial support from home to attend college, yet they became lifelong educators who continue to support students during their retirement.
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Dr. Sylvia Turner is looking forward to all of the 20+ Spring Semester workshops planned for students accepted into Maryville College’s TRIO Student Support Services (SSS) program, but she’s most excited for the orientation workshops scheduled for this month and next.
The Boyd Center for Business and Economic Research in the Haslam College of Business at the University of Tennessee released its 2021 Economic Report to Governor Lee. Learn more: tiny.utk.edu/ERG2021 The report highlights projected state and national economic growth, unemployment, employment growth by industry, consumer spending and taxable sales. This year’s report provides a retrospective on the COVID-19…
Here’s some more good news for doing business in Tennessee. The fiscal stability of a state’s government is vital to ensuring the success of government-sponsored programs and projects and the quality of life of the state’s residents. Tennessee is the top state for fiscal stability. Read more: https://lnkd.in/e5dj_M7
I’m proud of the businesses, large and small – some that we know personally and others that we just read about or hear about – which have sacrificed and re-invented themselves during 2020 in order to cope with this global pandemic. I
