At its Jan. 10 meeting, the Metropolitan Planning Commission — now called Knoxville-Knox County Planning — kicked the most recent Recode Knoxville documents on to City Council.
The approval vote came …
Recode Draft 4 on fast track to MPC
A dozen members of the 20-member Recode Knoxville Stakeholder Advisory Committee met with MPC executive director Gerald Green and City Codes director Peter Ahrens for four hours on Jan. 3 …
Singh-Perez makes some noise
Seema Singh-Perez was one of four women elected to City Council last year – a record for Knoxville. She stood out because she is one of two women of color …
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 …
Winners all
Mayor Madeline Rogero was arguably the biggest winner on Tuesday, as five Democrats won election to Knoxville City Council. That leaves George Wallace as the only vocal Republican on the …
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 …
District 3: Two nice people in times turned mean
The third district City Council race hasn’t gotten a lot of publicity, probably because there’s very little drama between candidates James Corcoran and Seema Singh Perez, who are running to …
City Council in black and white
Race is an issue in the Knoxville City Council election in November. For the first time in 50 years, the city could be without an African-American on the council. WATE’s …