Glenn Jacobs, Tim Burchett and Mike Ragsdale ought to take Tommy Schumpert out to dinner.
Back in 1999 – before county executives ran down to Nashville and got their title changed …
Time to take Tommy to dinner
Recode: Does City Council have enough information?
Last week’s City Council workshop slogged on about residential code topics for some 3 1/2 hours, without final resolution. A number of individual suggestions were made but not resolved. (There …
Saints and sinners on a mission
One rainy afternoon when I first went to Nashville to cover politics for the Knoxville Journal, back in the days when we had two competitive daily newspapers in this town, …
Salute to Charlie Daniel
News Sentinel editorial cartoonist Charlie Daniel has retired (after his job was abolished by corporate), so friends gathered to wish him well. The event was held Sunday (2/17) at the …
Marshall Stair battles perceptions, makes his own way
Marshall Stair is a good-natured guy, but he’s tired of hearing that there are citizens of Knoxville who consider him too young to be their next mayor.
“I was 40 my …
Kincannon bid for mayor buoyed by neighbors, educators
Fourth & Gill has long been a force in city politics, and mayoral candidate Indya Kincannon has lived in the neighborhood since 2001. From the looks of her first financial …
LWV offers insights into Knox Schools financing, budgeting
Many of us are passionate about public education, yet few of us really understand how the Knox County Schools budget works. Because funding is key to providing quality education and …
LaKenya Middlebrook wants to chair county Dems
LaKenya Middlebrook’s Black History Month presentation at the February meeting of the Democratic Women of Knoxville included a list of Tennessee “firsts” – first black man to serve as a …