Former Tennessee Supreme Court Chief Justice Gary Wade, now Dean of the Duncan School of Law at Lincoln Memorial University, spent some time discussing the death penalty in front of …
Dashing toward the finish line
Three types of people came out in the rain for free ice cream today. There were the candidates, tired to the bone, who see an end ahead with voting on …
Knoxville’s Calcutta
Riding down lower Broadway in Knoxville can transport you to a byway slum in India. The only things missing are the cardboard and tin shacks of those foreign inhabitants. The …
NAACP calls for public hearings on BOE plan
The Knoxville Branch NAACP is calling on the Knox County Board of Education to hold public hearings before adopting its draft strategic plan, developed as a road map for the …
Have a cone on Tim
Tim Burchett is celebrating his campaign for Congress with an ice cream social at Cruze Farm. It’s today (7/31) starting at 5:30 p.m. at The White Barn at Cruze Farm, …
Baker makes PGA junior all-star team
Tylan Baker is a young man with goals, and he’s not one to dillydally while pursuing them. Ask him his age, and he says “12 about to turn 13 in …
From around here
Thousands of little boys from around here, blessed with little orange shirts, grew up to be followers of Tennessee football. Some learned from their parents. Some learned listening to the …
Top Ten Reasons to Join the Beaver Creek Flotilla
You know by now that Powell will celebrate the opening of the Beaver Creek water trail with a Flotilla at 10 a.m. Saturday, Aug. 4. What you might not know …