Beaver Creek extends 44 miles from a handful of bubbling springs in Gibbs through Halls, Powell and Karns to Melton Hill Lake in Hardin Valley. Mayor Glenn Jacobs has named …
Looking ahead: Cruz or Jay; Driscoll or Frazier?
How to predict the outcome of a political race?
I look at money, support and strategy.
Knox County Commission has two at-large seats: District 10 where Larsen Jay, running for re-election, is …
Campaign checkbooks show GOP entanglements
It’s amazing that people are already running for elections that are a year away. Yet they are. And a quick look at financial disclosures shows some spider-webby entanglements.
For instance, Knox …
A million here, a million there
An anomaly of local government is the limited power of the county mayor. On the surface, Knox County’s $851 million budget puts it far ahead of the city’s $434 million. …
Tough opening night: Jay walks out grinning
Larsen Jay smiled for a selfie as he trudged through the deserted City County building on his way to the parking garage. He had just presided over his first Knox …
Larsen Jay is an uncommon commissioner
It’s a shame local government can’t adopt Knox County Commissioner Larsen Jay’s business model. At Random Acts of Flowers, all materials are donated, nearly all the associates are volunteers, and …
Charter amendment discussion is taboo for some officials
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 …
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 …