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District 6 council race heats up
It’s Garrett Holt vs. Gwen McKenzie for District 6 Knoxville City Council. Registered voters citywide can vote Nov. 3 for each district’s representative. (Only District 5 is not on the …
Gwen McKenzie: Keep on pushing
The teenaged Gwen Wilson never perceived herself as a leader, or even as a political candidate. A shy, quiet Holston High School student who rarely opened her mouth, she would …
City Council expresses concern over gun violence
A resolution expressing “concern” that gun shows may be conducted within city facilities won supermajority approval, 8-1, at Knoxville City Council Tuesday night. The resolution, a “sense of the council” …
Giovanni honored by hometown, ‘Knoxville, Tennessee’
Mayor Madeline Rogero called it “the annotated version” when poet Nikki Giovanni interrupted her own reading of “Knoxville, Tennessee” to insert comments and even lead the crowd in singing “Leaning …
Don’t eat the seed corn (and other reflections)
Somebody asked the other day, “Whatever happened to George Will?”
He is alive and well, continuing to write the twice-weekly column in The Washington Post that he began in 1974. He’s …
Whoop, here they come! City election yields big night for women, Democrats
Knoxville will continue to be a patch of blue in Tennessee’s bright red political landscape, despite the efforts of conservative bloggers, columnists and Republican activists to inject partisan politics into …
McKenzie packs Holly’s Gourmet Market
Gwen McKenzie said the crowd “warmed my heart” at a meet and greet Tuesday at Holly’s Gourmet Market hosted by Phyllis Nichols and Cynthia Moxley.
Moxley, meanwhile, was mumbling about running …
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