Updated 12:31 p.m.
The city’s primary elections are over, but it’s 90 degrees outside and November seems far away. Just below the surface, however, the general election push for mayor and …
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 …
I was still in my pajamas last Saturday morning when two young men knocked on my door. One was wearing an Amelia Parker T-shirt; the other was holding a City …
Dedicated to Amelia Parker
0-9 loser of a vote by City Council to join the 2017 ballot after tying with Harry Tindell for second place in District 4.
Come unto our table,
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Maybe it’s time to add another category to the old cliché about “almost” winning only counting in horseshoes and hand grenades.
Minutes after City Council – at a special called meeting …
Updated Thursday, Aug. 31
There’s a growing movement for City Council to decide the race for second place in Tuesday’s District 4 primary by a coin flip. Council members are not …
Cliff Rodgers could feel it in his bones. With 30 candidates running in a low-turnout City Council election, he had a premonition that one of those contests would end in …
Voting in Knoxville City Council District 4 is dominated by well-organized neighborhood groups – Fountain City Town Hall, Town Hall East and the Alice Bell Spring Hill Neighborhood Association. Dating …
