Asking former U.S. Sen. Doug Jones to be the keynote speaker at this year’s Truman Day Dinner is paying off for Knox County Democratic Party chair Matt Shears. Not only …
Helsley to run for county mayor
South Knoxville resident Debbie Helsley has picked up a petition to run for Knox County mayor. The primary is May 3, and the general election is Aug. 4.
The Knoxville native, …
Karns clean-up turns up tools
The 20th Adopt-a-Road clean-up on Beaver Ridge Road included a set of tools, pieces of metal, cigarette butts, lots of paper, cans and containers. The project is sponsored by the …
Middlebrook heads county Democrats
LaKenya Middlebrook was elected March 30 to chair the Knox County Democratic Party. Read more about her in Betty Bean’s profiles here and here. Her cabinet includes Ed Nelson, vice …
Cameron Brooks pursues equity for humans, canines
Cameron Brooks is a man with eclectic interests. He sells real estate, he works to rescue homeless dogs, he’s been a political party chair and he is into his second …
Paul Monger, Democratic leader, has died
Paul Boyd Monger, 87, of Farragut, passed away March 19. Funeral services will be private. Survivors include his wife, Peggy, two daughters and a granddaughter.
Mr. Monger was a leader of …
Valliant: a colorful career in politics, land development
Knoxville attorney John Valliant Jr.’s parents migrated south from Canada and wound up in Oak Ridge in 1943. His father worked on the super-secret classified Manhattan Project “and he was …
LaKenya Middlebrook wants to chair county Dems
LaKenya Middlebrook’s Black History Month presentation at the February meeting of the Democratic Women of Knoxville included a list of Tennessee “firsts” – first black man to serve as a …
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