It’s understandable that there is an impulse among some state House members to expel state Rep. David Byrd, R-Waynesboro, for sexually harassing young women basketball players when he was a …
Adhering to due process solves jail overcrowding
Turns out doing the right thing can save the taxpayers money. Overcrowding at the Knox County jail appeared to be leading to the imminent construction of another “pod” to handle …
Gloria goes back for seconds, clashes with banana Republicans
Gloria Johnson thought she knew what to expect.
It hadn’t been any picnic to be a Democrat serving in a state House when she’d been there the first time. Republicans had …
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, …