Early voting in the city election starts in a week. Eddie Mannis has landed big endorsements in the race for mayor. Read the press release: Eddie Mannis endorsements
Endorsements are from …
Eddie Mannis scores impressive endorsements
Inside Knox TN Today: Obituaries
Kathy Joy, my friend and a true go-getter, once said a key to business success is to “zig when others zag.” Watch your competitors and zig the other way.
Our treatment …
Rating the Class of ’17
Five newbies joined the Knoxville City Council two years ago, replacing term-limited incumbents. Let’s score them, based on Tuesday’s vote on Recode Knoxville.
Gwen McKenzie (District 6: East Knox) – Solid …
Marshall Stair: The man in the middle (with the money)
“Indya’s (Kincannon) got the Democrats and Eddie’s (Mannis) got the Republicans and a few Democrats. Marshall (Stair) is getting squeezed in the middle. He won’t make the runoff.” That’s a …
Hubert Smith: Prepared to serve
If the upcoming city election were a job interview, the candidate with the most impressive credentials for city council at-large Seat C would be Hubert Smith. Sure, Amy Midis has …
The Midis touch: Newcomer runs for city council
Betty Bean has been getting me into trouble for years. And while I’m getting smarter, she’s getting more devious. So, a couple of weeks ago when Bean wrote an ode …
Greenways face uncertain future, more study
Mike Donila and I came out of the newspaper business – Mike from the News Sentinel and I from Shopper News. So, when we caught up Wednesday at Karns Elementary …
The ‘talk’ has it a three-person race
Predicting a Knoxville mayoral election is often a slam-dunk. But this time around there are three major candidates, and in the next two months two of them will likely proceed …