Booker sings a new song

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(Editor’s Note: Betty Bean wrote this circa 2017, on the occasion of Bob Booker’s CD release.)
The new album in the jukebox at Marie’s Old Town Tavern is a little bit …

Keeping the memories and moving on

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Alex Haley left us an uncountable number of pithy quotes, but nothing he ever said rang truer than this: “Every time an old person dies, it’s like a library burning …

Why do Republicans hate democracy?

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A couple of weeks ago, state Rep. Jason Zachary slapped a quote from Plato onto the digital newsletter he periodically blasts out to keep his West Knox constituents inspired:
“Dictatorship naturally …

Cameron Brooks: 2023 Person of the Year

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I’ve chosen a Person of the Year every December for longer than there’s been a KnoxTNToday, and now it’s time to do it again.
It’s usually not all that hard. I …

Downtown parking woes

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Downtown parking just got harder, meaner and (probably) more expensive (nothing gets cheaper, right?), as more businesses move to cashless transactions. California-based Metropolis has taken over management of most commercial …

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Betty BeanKnox Scene

Recently, my daughter started asking me questions about her father’s death. Not hard questions, really, just little details I’d laid to rest as life rolled on, but things she had …