It’s hard to see how Evetty Satterfield doesn’t win the race for school board from District 1. Dametraus Jaggers is sincere and well-qualified, but he’s not local. Andre Canty is …
Signs, signs, signs
Just when I stopped to photograph a gaggle of unsightly political signs, a car slowed down and out stepped Ronnie Rochelle. He had come to place a sign on the …
Scott Smith: Hardly incognito
My office window overlooks my driveway and front door. My senior security officer, SSO Big Dog, usually sleeps on the rug at the front door, which we leave open. So, …
News about KnoxTNToday.com
Update to friends of KnoxTNToday.com:
Our March mailer will reach homes this week … and we more than doubled the promised circulation. Able to do so because of display ads from …
‘Fire and Fury’ shows chaos in Trumpville
Let me be clear. I don’t like Donald Trump, and I wish he were not the president. But it does no good to call him names. Americans, especially Republicans, must …
Five guys vie to be your clerk
Noon Thursday was the deadline to return qualifying petitions for the May 1 county primaries. (Candidates have until noon Feb. 22 to withdraw from the ballot.) Click here for the …
BOE drops Leadership Academy
The Leadership Academy at UT will go forward – or not – without participation by Knox County Schools. The school board voted Feb. 14 to reject a compromise proposed by …
Knox County should drop partnership with Leadership Academy
Powerful people are lobbying hard to retain Knox County Schools’ partnership with UT’s Leadership Academy, headed by former Superintendent Jim McIntyre. Why?
We need strong school principals, they say.
This is a …