When I was a cub reporter we had two or three days of torrential rain and my editor told me to do a weather story. You may find this hard …
Horse industry must ‘clean up the mess’
Attendance at the Tennessee Walking Horse Celebration in Shelbyville week before last was estimated to be at a 50-year low. The U.S. House recently passed a bill to stop the …
KPD: Is it time for civilian control?
When Knoxville’s next mayor takes office, a major concern will be presiding over a police department under siege.
What sort of workplace culture exists when a police sergeant can draw a …
Throw Byrd to the wolves? Understandable but rash
It’s understandable that there is an impulse among some state House members to expel state Rep. David Byrd, R-Waynesboro, for sexually harassing young women basketball players when he was a …
The myth of the ‘gun show loophole’
The Tennessee Valley Fair owns nine acres of property on the north end of Chilhowee Park. It’s where the livestock exhibits are located during the annual event. The property is …
There’s good news and bad news for Eddie Mannis
The good news for Knoxville mayoral candidate Eddie Mannis is that his two principal opponents may split the same pool of voters. Marshall Stair and Indya Kincannon are both Democrats, …
The Casada Lesson: You don’t work for the governor
Former House Speaker Glen Casada certainly did enough to deserve being ousted from leadership, but the speed and the ease with which it happened could not have occurred had his …
Regulating neighborhood groups prep for Recode?
Looking down the road, assuming Knoxville’s Recode is in place, it would seem to be inevitable that neighborhood groups will sometimes be at odds with the planning commission, the city, …