The wrestler Kane, aka Knox County Mayor Glenn Jacobs, is a fearsome sight when he executes his signature move. He calls it the choke slam, and it involves grabbing his …
A different kind of September
Remember when September 1 marked the beginning of school – the real first day of the year for families with kids in school? We moved up a grade, got new …
Unmatched: Bee DeSelm was in a league of her own
Story updated to correct year of Rogero election
One of my favorite footnotes to local politics happened when Knox County Commissioner Bee DeSelm’s Republican Primary opponent accused her of supporting nude …
Locked up: 16-year-old jailed after manhunt
The South-Doyle neighbor was sitting on her screened-in porch doing paperwork just after 10 a.m. on the morning of Aug. 25 when the racket started. It was a helicopter, flying …
Friendship, race and growing up segregated in Knoxville
In one of the niftiest scene-setting leads in any book ever, page one of “Beginning with Cannonballs” takes the reader to a backyard swimming pool in West Knoxville on a …
Democratic goals: Bust stereotypes, beat Republicans
Knox County’s new Democratic Party chair came to Knoxville eight years ago to study at Johnson University (the former Johnson Bible College for those of us who can’t turn loose …
House District 18: Democrats work while Republicans squabble
Less than a week after Eddie Mannis won the Republican primary over Gina Oster for state House District 18, four former Republican Party chairs showed up at the West Knox …
Briggs wages war on COVID
Earlier this year, I asked a longtime observer of the Tennessee General Assembly his opinion of Sen. Richard Briggs. Here’s the response:
“Briggs is a pretty decent guy by legislative standards. …