The Knox County Board of Health took over Knox County’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic from the health department on Wednesday, and served notice that it’s not playing politics by …
Captain Boatman was KFD mainstay
William A. “Boaty” Boatman’s first nickname was “Chugg.” That’s what the kids in his Lonsdale neighborhood called him, because he ran with a peculiar gait – he was born with …
Armed deputies raid house; family mulls legal action
Mike Reynolds has a home maintenance business and his clientele include 160 homeowners in his North Knox County Sterchi Hills neighborhood and Sterchi Village. He and his wife, Tonya, a …
Tennessee, we’ve got a lot to answer for
If we had any sense, we’d be embarrassed.
That’s rhetorical, of course. The assortment of bigots, self-dealers and Bible-bangers we send to Nashville to represent us in the House of Representatives …
Knoxville’s ‘I can’t breathe’ case: 22 years ago
Knoxville – Jan. 9, 1998 – It was going on midnight when my phone rang. I’d already gone to bed, but lost interest in sleep when I saw the name …
John Majors: Off the field
Brian Griffin is a poet, not a jock. But he’s a native Tennessean, so of course he knew who Johnny Majors was before he happened to bump into him in …
Surprise party marks Lauren’s last day
Seven years ago in October, Lauren Hopson made a speech.
Little did she know that the video of the remarks she presented at the October 2013 school board meeting would not …
Pandemic partnership or awkward threesome?
So there she sits, an apolitical petunia in an onion patch of polarized pandemic politics – probably not a place Martha Buchanan, MD, ever aspired to be.
Director of the health …