Ran into Bill Weigel this morning. He was muttering about people from “up north” calling him to ask what’s going on at Tennessee.
Reminded me of this David Climer (former Tennessean …
Candidates at-large
Days before the turkey landed in pots across Knox County, three candidates for Knox County Commission at-large spoke to the Halls Republican Club.
Larsen Jay told how he turned a near-fatal …
Don’t eat the seed corn (and other reflections)
Somebody asked the other day, “Whatever happened to George Will?”
He is alive and well, continuing to write the twice-weekly column in The Washington Post that he began in 1974. He’s …
Edelman brings message of hope, advocacy
Educators are “doing God’s work – the most important work on earth,” Marian Wright Edelman said in Knoxville last week. The founder of the Children’s Defense Fund brought the Billie …
Regal campus possible for Knox County Schools
Regal Entertainment will leave Halls before year’s end, packing up and relocating its corporate headquarters to a renovated physicians’ building on the east end of the old Baptist Hospital site …
Sunday talk shows
We watch them so you don’t have to.
It’s amazing that the 800-pound gorilla went unmentioned when District 2 council candidates Andrew Roberto and Wayne Christensen appeared Sunday on both Inside …
Is there a question in there, senator?
Who are these folks who came to Knox County to interrogate our Republican officeholders and candidates, setting criteria for “bona fide Republicans” and asserting authority to disqualify those who don’t …
The Burchett agenda
So there we were, in a receiving line to fist-bump Tim Burchett before winding our way over to the fried baloney and fixin’s for dinner last Thursday. The man ahead …