When Glenn Jacobs parlayed his 23-vote primary win into the county mayor’s office in 2018, he noticed right away that the county’s law director had sued the county’s pension board. …
Tough opening night: Jay walks out grinning
Larsen Jay smiled for a selfie as he trudged through the deserted City County building on his way to the parking garage. He had just presided over his first Knox …
Closing the book on September
Knox County Commission’s September meeting could pick up a nickname. It was that bad.
Attendance was limited by order of the Knox County Board of Health, which was also the major …
Health Board puts a ‘hurt’ on Jacobs
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 …