Emily Siner
Emily Siner is an enterprise reporter at WPLN. She has worked at the Los Angeles Times and NPR headquarters in Washington, D.C., and her written work was recently published in Slices Of Life, an anthology of literary feature writing. Born and raised in the Chicago area, she is a graduate from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
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A frugal Tennessee resident opted out of Medicare Part B, which carries $175 monthly premiums. Now her heirs face a huge bill for an air-ambulance ride. -
For the patient, it was a quick and inexpensive virtual appointment. Why it cost 10 times more than she expected became a mystery. -
Convenient as it may be, beware of getting your blood drawn at a hospital. The cost could be much higher than at an independent lab, and your insurance might not cover it all. -
Convenient as it may be, beware of getting your blood drawn at a hospital. As one Texas woman discovered, the cost could be higher than at an independent lab, and your insurance might not cover it.
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Hunting is on the decline in some parts of the country. At this week's National Wild Turkey Federation convention, advocates want to create future hunters, especially women. -
For the past half-century an archive in Nashville has kept up and recorded almost every national news broadcast. Now, 50 years later, archivists are learning some interesting tidbits.
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Researchers in Nashville are tapping into a country music camp to learn more about Williams Syndrome, a rare genetic disorder. Many people who have it love music but don't know why. -
Free college programs are popping up across the country, but Tennessee is the first state to offer free community college to almost every adult, regardless of when they finished high school. -
Some people in Nashville's Kurdish community — the largest in the U.S. — are worried about Trump's executive order on immigration. Reports of Green Card holders turned away overseas are causing panic.
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The Fisk Jubilee Singers famously saved Fisk University from financial ruin 150 years ago. But even now, the Nashville school's financial problems remain.
