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Democrat Kim McMillan Drops Out of Governor's Race
This afternoon, Kim McMillan, a Democrat raised in Knoxville who was seeking her party's nomination for governor, announced she was giving up that campaign to...Read More Published 03/31/2010 at 5:06 PM 0 comments -
The State of State Parks
This morning the state Department of Environment and Conservation released its Tennessee 2020 plan for "Parks, People and Landscapes." (You can read a PDF of the full 120-page...Read More Published 03/31/2010 at 11:28 AM 0 comments -
Comment Mob Gangs Up on Liberal Poster
Back in October, we ran a story about the value of online comments on knoxnews.com. For that story, we spoke with cjensen -- then the...Read More Published 03/31/2010 at 11:26 AM 0 comments -
Legislature Effectively Kills Mountaintop Removal Bill
Today the state House used an unusual procedure to avoid voting on the TN Scenic Vistas Act, a bill that would ban mountaintop removal mining....Read More Published 03/30/2010 at 6:18 PM 0 comments -
America's Most Wanted Chef: Peter Chang
The culinary saga continues: Peter Chang, the former Knoxville chef who accidentally created his own cult following on the Internet by not staying at any one restaurant...Read More Published 03/29/2010 at 3:31 PM 0 comments -
Democratic Mayoral Candidate Cries Foul
Rev. Ezra Maize, who's running against Michael McBath for the Democratic nomination for county mayor, held a press conference today on Market Square to express...Read More Published 03/29/2010 at 2:49 PM 0 comments -
TN Wins $500 Million in Education Grants
Tennessee has been awarded $500 million in federal funding as part of the Race to the Top program from the Dept. of Education. The state...Read More Published 03/29/2010 at 1:56 PM 0 comments -
UT Chancellor Decries 'Bias'
A Citybeat following up on UT Chancellor Jimmy Cheek's e-mail and news conference about recent bias incidents on the Knoxville....Read More Published 03/26/2010 at 3:47 PM 0 comments -
Uptick in Racist, Discriminatory Actions at UT
This morning UT Chancellor Jimmy G. Cheek sent out a letter to faculty, staff, and students expressing his dismay at a rise in incidents of...Read More Published 03/26/2010 at 12:57 PM 0 comments -
And Then There Were Three
Shelby County District Attorney Bill Gibbons has announced he's dropping out of the GOP primary, leaving Mayor Bill Haslam, U.S. Rep. Zach Wamp, and Lt....Read More Published 03/26/2010 at 12:22 PM 0 comments -
Ron Ramsey: The Coal Candidate?
This investigative report from Channel 5 in Nashville on Lt. Gov. Ron Ramsey, a GOP candidate for governor, is pretty damning. It reveals Ramsey has...Read More Published 03/24/2010 at 4:01 PM 0 comments -
Brick and Mortar Politics
After a spate of vandalism incidents at Democratic Party offices around the country in the wake of Sunday's passage of the health care bill, a rumor crossed...Read More Published 03/24/2010 at 9:30 AM 0 comments -
Song for Alex Chilton
We've been awash in tributes to Alex Chilton since the Memphis music icon died last Wednesday, from Rep. Steve Cohen's surprisingly personal reminiscence on the floor...Read More Published 03/23/2010 at 10:54 AM 0 comments -
Knoxville Geographic
One of our favorite local outfits gets some well-deserved ink in the current issue of National Geographic. The story's about J.R. Shute and Pat Rakes of Conservation...Read More Published 03/23/2010 at 8:31 AM 0 comments -
TN Politicians' Health Care Ire
So this morning my inbox is brimming with statements from Republican politicians from here to Nashville on their vehement opposition for the health care legislation...Read More Published 03/22/2010 at 10:07 AM 3 comments -
Knox Chamber Produces Crap Video in Attempt to Win Bid
Knoxville is one of a handful of potential trial locations for Google's ultra high-speed lickety split broadband network, and the City of Knoxville and/or Chamber...Read More Published 03/19/2010 at 12:55 PM 1 comments -
Mountaintop Removal Hangs on One Vote
A bill that would ban mountaintop removal in Tennessee is one vote shy of making it out of the Senate Environment Committee and on to...Read More Published 03/19/2010 at 12:01 PM 1 comments -
Downtown to Finally Get Its Own Grocery
Knoxville entrepreneur John Haas--whose other local ventures include the popular 17th street video game bar, the Fort Sanders Yacht Club--will finally fulfill the wishes of...Read More Published 03/18/2010 at 4:29 PM 1 comments -
Haslam Defends Jobs Claim
Mayor Bill Haslam is defending a campaign ad in which he claims to have created 11,000 jobs while serving as president of Pilot. The Associated...Read More Published 03/18/2010 at 3:15 PM 0 comments -
Groups Turn Up Pressure to Regulate Coal Ash
Last week a website called ashsunstein.com debuted to put pressure on the Obama administration to release information regarding the regulation of coal ash, a by-product...Read More Published 03/18/2010 at 11:30 AM 0 comments -
Holy Land Market FAIL
Being fairly immature, I got a kick out of this sign at the Holy Land Market on Sutherland Ave. I was there to pick up...Read More Published 03/18/2010 at 10:49 AM 0 comments -
Knoxville Gets Its Own BBQ Fest
First there was BaconFest, then the International Biscuit Festival (June 5), and now we will have the Pork Knox Q-Fest, coming April 22-24 to the World's Fair...Read More Published 03/17/2010 at 4:36 PM 0 comments -
Go Go Guns in Bars
The new guns in bars legislation passed the state's House Judiciary Committee yesterday by a vote of 8-4, advancing a revision of legislation that last...Read More Published 03/17/2010 at 11:48 AM 0 comments -
Bob Corker on Financial Reform on Charlie Rose
Our own Sen. Bob Corker made an appearance on Charlie Rose last night to discuss the financial reform package just released. Yesterday Senate Dem. Chris...Read More Published 03/16/2010 at 12:46 PM 0 comments -
Come for the Candidates, Stay for the Funnel Cakes
Now's your chance to see Tennessee's gubernatorial candidates square off--at Dollywood. It's on: Haslam! Gibbons! McMillan! McWherter! Ramsey! Wamp! The Mystery Mine!They'll be gathering this Friday...Read More Published 03/16/2010 at 11:18 AM 0 comments -
Frank Niceley and the Chamber of Secrets
Monday brought an unusually feisty press release from the Knoxville Chamber, declaring state Rep. Frank Niceley "hostile to business." In particular, the Chamber rapped the Strawberry Plains...Read More Published 03/15/2010 at 4:49 PM 0 comments -
Has the Knoxville Journal Given Up?
From the look of this headline, Knoxville Journal could use a graphic designer. Either that, or they just don't care anymore. Our own esteemed art...Read More Published 03/15/2010 at 4:04 PM 0 comments -
A New Front in Abortion Fight
The protests over a new East Knoxville Planned Parenthood clinic reported in the News Sentinel on Saturday are not an entirely homegrown phenomenon. They represent the...Read More Published 03/14/2010 at 2:23 PM 0 comments -
Knoxvillians on Being Appalachian
So it's a few days after the story ran, but here are links to a couple of audio slideshows: one with Mark Banker, a local...Read More Published 03/12/2010 at 4:57 PM 1 comments -
A Corker or a Whopper?
In the Least Convincing Explanation category, Sen. Bob Corker is in the News Sentinel today, saying it is a "major cheap shot" to suggest (as some have)...Read More Published 03/12/2010 at 8:47 AM 0 comments -
Moonshiner Arrested in Eastern Kentucky
So just after we publish a story questioning pat stereotypes of Appalachia, police in Bell County, Ky. announce they've seized one of the largest moonshine...Read More Published 03/11/2010 at 10:43 AM 0 comments -
A Boyd Out of Hand
WVLT Channel 8 appears to have a viral video hit, although as is often the case with such things, it's probably not the kind of...Read More Published 03/11/2010 at 7:52 AM 0 comments -
Christina Hendricks is a Real Doll
Literally. The Mad Men actress joins the small pantheon of Knoxville-born celebrities to be immortalized in plastic. Mattel announced today a collector's set of Mad...Read More Published 03/10/2010 at 10:41 PM 0 comments -
Knoxville Real Estate Gets National Attention
Yesterday USA Today ran a short piece on Knoxville's housing market in its Money section.The graphic-friendly newspaper provides some nice numbers and charts to capture...Read More Published 03/10/2010 at 4:32 PM 0 comments -
Bob Corker's Payday
Sen. Bob Corker has garnered praise in some quarters (including Metro Pulse) for his willingness to work with Senate Democrats on financial regulation. But being at...Read More Published 03/10/2010 at 10:26 AM 0 comments -
Are You One of Wamp's Missing Bird Experts?
Last month, U.S. Rep. and gubernatorial hopeful Zach Wamp said in a GOP candidates forum that responsible coal mining is beneficial to birds and to...Read More Published 03/09/2010 at 11:53 AM 1 comments -
Democrat Steps into 3rd District Race
A teacher and former congressional staffer named Brenda Short has announced she will run to replace U.S. Rep. Zach Wamp, who is vacating the 3rd...Read More Published 03/08/2010 at 3:52 PM 0 comments -
R.I.P. Mark Linkous of Sparklehorse
Death can be a revelation. It was only after reading a Sunday news report about Mark Linkous' suicide that we found out the singer/songwriter behind...Read More Published 03/08/2010 at 3:16 PM 0 comments -
A Death in Knoxville: Mark Linkous of Sparklehorse
The initial reports over the weekend that Mark Linkous of Sparklehorse had committed suicide were sad enough, but finding out that it apparently happened in Knoxville makes...Read More Published 03/08/2010 at 7:50 AM 1 comments -
Oh, THAT Kind of Tolerance
Local Catholic officials are understandably upset about an anti-Catholic Jack Chick tract distributed to Pigeon Forge high school students:One of the teens who received the tract...Read More Published 03/05/2010 at 2:15 PM 0 comments -
Chipping In For the Appalachian Trail
Getting an Appalachian Trail license plate onto Tennessee cars has been an ongoing effort (we wrote about it 2008), but this year the Appalachian Trail Conservancy...Read More Published 03/02/2010 at 5:46 PM 0 comments -
BaconFest's "Swine and Dine" Recap
Art Director Travis Gray takes on his personal bacon journey through last Friday's "Swine and Dine" event from BaconFest 2010:(Photos by David Luttrell, who also...Read More Published 03/01/2010 at 5:08 PM 0 comments -
Chef Peter Chang in the New Yorker
We can't really claim Peter Chang as a Knoxvillian for one major reason: He's already vamoosed. But the ever-moving Chinese chef with a national following...Read More Published 03/01/2010 at 12:42 PM 0 comments
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