A couple of weeks ago I wondered aloud about a $650,000 item in the law director’s budget marked for outside counsel. Aren’t 11 lawyers and eight support staff members enough …
Relationship skills pay off for Hugh Nystrom
From a $5.65 per hour desk clerk job at a Disney resort after college to the chair of Knox County Commission is at first blush a gargantuan leap. Yet, some …
Vance Link honored for 40 years of sharing baseball with kids
Every spring, a new group of sluggers age 7 and under takes the fields at Lakeshore and Sequoyah parks to play baseball. And for the past 40 years, even as …
Commission names Nystrom chair
How do you run for an office you can’t campaign for?
Specifically, since elected officials aren’t allowed to lobby their colleagues on issues coming up for a vote (and county commissioners …
Here comes Marshall
So I’m not the most attentive play-goer in town. Sitting through the pageantry and sturm und drang of “Candide,” I’m taken by the leading actor’s resemblance to Marshall Stair – …
Change is in the air as employees say ’bye to Burchett
“Typical Tim Burchett,” said one of the county employees who set up the mayor’s farewell party on the first day of his last week in office.
“Vanilla cake and ice water.”
The …
Fugate says good-bye at West Knox gathering
It’s good to get politicians who represent the same people talking to each other. On Thursday, Hugh Nystrom (county commission District 4), Lynne Fugate (school board, District 4) and Andrew …