When I first set foot in the Jessie Harris Building at UTK, I didn’t know that a mentor awaited me tucked away in a tiny office in the first building …
Reading the money trail in Rountree-Kristy contest
I used to be more of a reader than I am now. Seems like there’s not as much free time in my life – and it’s not because I’m watching …
Hitler, hysteria and the South Knox school board race
One of the big political kerfuffles of 2014 started with a YouTube parody.
A clip from the German movie “Downfall” that depicts the moment down in the bunker when Hitler realizes …
Bounds, Rountree seek second terms
School board chair Patti Bounds and vice chair Amber Rountree both announced that they will run for re-election on Friday, the day qualifying petitions became available.
Commissioner’s event brings lively school discussion
You never know what will be on the menu when Knox County Commissioner Carson Dailey holds one of his “Ask the Commissioner” events at a SoKno eatery.
Sometimes it will be …
Welch launch draws politicos, neighbors, dad
Stephanie Welch’s official launch to her campaign for the First District seat on City Council drew a healthy crowd of high-profile friends, supportive neighbors and far-flying family.
Welch, vice president of …
Hanging out at ‘lucky’ Gap Creek Market
Apparently, no one in the Gap Creek/Kimberlin Heights area has any complaints with Knox County government or the school board.
County Commissioner Carson Dailey and school board representative Amber Rountree, who …
Great Schools Partnership celebrates success
The Great Schools Partnership has a lot to celebrate: its 12th anniversary, the fifth anniversary of the Community Schools Initiative and the addition this fall of another school, Maynard Elementary, …