Lauren Rider is the energizer bunny of the city council and she’s fully charged. Put it down to the happy transition from living two miles down a dirt road in …
100 Black Men: mentoring to give and to live
Chris Beatty is an impressive man. Considering the impressive work being done by 100 Black Men of Knoxville that’s not surprising. The Jamaica native earned engineering degrees to the doctoral …
Mayor Glenn Jacobs: ‘I’m having a blast’
Every Friday, Knox County Mayor Glenn Jacobs posts a recap of the week’s activities on Facebook. Mayor watchers invariably are greeted with Jacobs’ smiling face as he ticks off his …
Your commission committee lineup
Like the Volunteer football squad, the starting eleven for the Knox County Commission reorganizes each year, usually sustaining fewer injuries and calls for a coaching change than the pigskin toters …
Relationship skills pay off for Hugh Nystrom
From a $5.65 per hour desk clerk job at a Disney resort after college to the chair of Knox County Commission is at first blush a gargantuan leap. Yet, some …
Knox County’s most progressive officeholder moves on
Mark Stephens is a soft-spoken guy who smiles often and easily. But don’t let that fool you – there’s steel in that backbone sufficient to mold the position to which …
Working Man Nick McBride
If Elizabeth Barrett Browning had dedicated a sonnet to Nick McBride, the first line would have been, “How do I employ thee? Let me count the ways.”
Knox County’s register of …
First Tennessee names five new managers
First Tennessee Bank has announced several promotions and transfers in Knoxville.
“Our financial center managers are the backbone of our retail delivery system,” said Dave Miller, First Tennessee’s regional president of …