Using the “Zoom” platform to stream its March 30 meeting online, Knox County Commission joined the rapidly growing practice of “distanced” meetings. It was a necessary if sometimes awkward initiation …
Coronavirus fallout puts school funding at risk in Knox County
As Knox County is preparing budgets for the fiscal year 2021, the impact of COVID-19 has added an extra element of uncertainty to what is a complex process in the …
Pandemic recalls Great Recession struggles
The only certainties are death and taxes; the COVID-19 pandemic has lent a macabre twist to that axiom.
The coronavirus has certainly hastened death for thousands worldwide with no end to …
You bet your life
I turned 70 on March 13, as astonished as anyone else in my circle that I’d reached this milestone of geezerhood. For several weeks I’d planned to travel with a …
‘The hay’s in the barn’
For now, the door-knocking is done, the flyers have been mailed and phone banks will soon grow still. It’s game time, kickoff set for this morning, March 3, when the …
Water, water everywhere, and no solutions yet
The 19th-century American essayist and novelist Charles Dudley Warner coined the phrase, “Everybody complains about the weather, but nobody does anything about it.”
Some Knox County residents let commissioners know on …
Broyles blends ideals with practicality in commission run
Policing the mean streets of Memphis for six years is not a job for the fainthearted. Neither is facing a roomful of your own party’s supporters and espousing a less-than-popular …
Charter Review Committee sets ground rules
Following a five-hour session last week, the Knox County Charter Review Committee took just 55 minutes on Monday evening to establish ground rules for the serious work ahead. The first …