Thank you, Mayor Jacobs

By Steve Hunley Taxpayers owe a debt of thanks to Knox County Mayor Glenn Jacobs for sending a letter to Susan Horn, Chair of the Board of Education and taking a bold stand against waste and for student safety.  The topic of the mayor’s letter was to “tell the...

Tax and Spend

By John J. Duncan Jr. One thing I saw thousands of times during my years in office was that you could never satisfy government’s appetite for money and land. They always wanted more. Yet the least economical, least efficient way to spend any money was to turn it over...