As soon as word began to spread Tuesday that businessman Tom Boyd planned to build a fantasyland-type resort on 40 acres behind the Walmart in South Knoxville, social media lit …
Recode Draft 4 on fast track to MPC
A dozen members of the 20-member Recode Knoxville Stakeholder Advisory Committee met with MPC executive director Gerald Green and City Codes director Peter Ahrens for four hours on Jan. 3 …
Drug deaths drop in ’18
District Atty. Gen. Charme Allen ended 2018 with a win. The law enforcement effort she leads has reduced deaths by opioid overdose in Knox County, albeit by just three. In …
New for 2019 at Knox TN Today
Anticipating growth in 2019, we tinkered with the website a bit.
Let’s walk through the changes.
The major content change is the addition of 10 categories for stories. The goal is to …
Kim Bumpas finds lots to love in her job as chief of Visit Knoxville
Kim Bumpas says she came to Knoxville to attend a Vol football game and fell in love with the town. When she graduated from high school in Collierville, a Memphis …
Let’s glimpse behind the Recode wizard’s density curtain
One of the “driving forces” behind the need for the proposed Recode ordinance is the projected growth of the city’s population over the next 20 years. This is manifested in …
A rare November upswing for real estate sales
On the heels of a promising October, real estate sales in Knox County experienced even more of a boost in November. For the month ending on Friday, Nov. 30, there …
Ultimate insider SRW has done it all – even prison
If you are involved in Republican politics in Tennessee, chances are your number is one of the thousand entries in SRW’s phone.
In the almost five decades since she graduated from …