Colin Ickes’ name isn’t a household word, but he seems OK with being the most important local public official that hardly anybody knows. He’d probably be happy to keep on...

One of the great revelations of my childhood came when First Methodist Church got sand blasted. The work started on a Monday morning, and when we rolled up in my...

On Saturday morning, Knoxville’s favorite chef, Bruce Bogartz, posted a notice on his Facebook page that he was back in business, this time at Halftime Cajun Smokehouse – formerly Halftime...

Granted, Tennessee’s 17th governor was no Elvis. No objective evaluator would have called Parson Brownlow the least bit handsome, and, adding insult to genetic misfortune, legend has it that his portrait,...

Maybe it’s time to add another category to the old cliché about “almost” winning only counting in horseshoes and hand grenades. Minutes after City Council – at a special called...

However, at least one council member will oppose that. Nick Pavlis says, “We’ve elected a mayor, seven vice mayors and two council members with the process called for by the...

Cliff Rodgers could feel it in his bones. With 30 candidates running in a low-turnout City Council election, he had a premonition that one of those contests would end in...

OK, county residents, here’s your chance to vote in a city election – maybe Knox County residents who live outside the city limits need not show up at a polling...