by Steve Hunley | Feb 16, 2020 | Columnist, Hunley, Stories In This Week's Focus:
Mayor Jacobs wants to sell it for $6 million By Steve Hunley What kind of government spends $25.6 million dollars on a building and then tries to sell it for $6 million dollars? Your Knox County government and Knox County School Board is that kind of...
by Ray Hill | Feb 16, 2020 | Columnist, Hill, Ray Hill's Archives, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Ray Hill Only nine men have made the transition from governor of Tennessee to United States senator. One of those nine was one of the most successful politicians to take part in Tennessee’s turbulent politics: Andrew Johnson. In fact, Andrew Johnson prospered...
by design | Feb 10, 2020 | Columnist, Ferguson
By Dr. Jim Ferguson I’m not a numerologist, but I like palindromes. I hope you didn’t miss this rare tripartite palindrome on Groundhog Day, 02/02/2020. Actually, my focus on February 2nd wasn’t on numerical arrangements, but on the Super Bowl game and whether...
by Mike Steely | Feb 10, 2020 | Columnist, Steely
By Mike Steely From giant sloth fossils to John Sevier and Davy Crockett, the area of East Tennessee is very well represented in the new Tennessee State Museum in Nashville. Located at the end of the Bicentennial Capitol Mall near the state house the state museum is...
by Jedidiah McKeehan | Feb 10, 2020 | Columnist, McKeehan
By Jedidiah McKeehan We have probably all seen a tv show or a movie where a lawyer is walking down a hallway next to a judge arguing why a judge should make a ruling in their favor. Conspicuously absent from these scenes is the attorney for the other side of the...
by Ralphine Major | Feb 10, 2020 | Columnist, Major
By Ralphine Major It was one of this area’s biggest developments following the 1982 World’s Fair. In 1984, East Towne Mall brought to the east end of Knoxville what West Town gave the west end years earlier. When the two-story structure opened, gravel parking lots...
