A few weeks ago, I got hammered by Facebook messages, emails and face-to-face questions from friends of Knoxville City Council candidate David Hayes – at least a dozen of them, …
Resolution 908: a reason to smile
Ed White hadn’t heard about Resolution 908, so it took him a few minutes to pull up the Community TV website and watch the video of Knox County Commission’s June …
Ailing but optimistic, Strickland works on another comeback
Tank Strickland was moving slowly when he walked through the doorway at Jackie’s Dream to attend a reception for Charles Lomax, a young African-American minister who is running for an …
Amelia Parker: Persistence could win the day
I was still in my pajamas last Saturday morning when two young men knocked on my door. One was wearing an Amelia Parker T-shirt; the other was holding a City …
Controversial Beverly Road developer tees up another try
It was an odd and uncomfortable scene Monday morning at Sam & Andy’s in Fountain City when about 15 area residents showed up for a meeting between two county commissioners …
‘Enemy of the People’? Acosta book tops summer reading list
This tweet has been pinned atop Jim Acosta’s Twitter account since last fall:
“We are not the enemy of the people. I am not your enemy. You are not my enemy. …
‘Doing things she oughten’ – the long fall of Hazel Davidson
It was 1978, and Hazel Davidson wasn’t feeling so good. She worked from home, so to speak, and was being hounded by the cops, whose increasingly frequent raids had gotten her …
Roe at risk: Will GOP overreach create a backlash?
The availability of legal abortion used to vary from state to state and didn’t come to Tennessee until the U.S. Supreme Court decision Roe v. Wade in 1973. But that …