Trustee John Duncan III ought to send Gloria Ray flowers. Her troubles with the Knoxville Tourism and Sports Corp. have kept him off the front page or the lead TV news items for a few days.

A special panel of the state Supreme Court has ruled that the state’s appellate justices are being properly elected to office by being appointed by the governor then one day facing a retention election. This in spite of the Tennessee ...

So how did Gloria Ray get to be Gloria Ray?

It’s an election year so expect the Legislature to at least talk about cutting taxes. This might seem odd in the middle of a recession (remember the crisis last year to pass a balanced budget?) but the state Legislature is ...

The Republicans are in control now and they are redrawing House district lines following the 2010 census and they are attempting to secure a filibuster proof majority. It is likely the Republican plan this time around will face a great ...

We had hoped to put the turmoil in county government behind us with the election of a new County Commission and a new-broom county mayor. But there is a mess looming out there and somebody needs to deal with it ...

The only thing we get from the Iowa caucus is ethanol subsidies.

We forget what it’s like when you are that age. There is so much to learn, so much to discover. There is so much you don’t know.

The oft repeated question around town the last couple of weeks is what did the Knoxville legal community know about Judge Richard Baumgartner’s drug problem and when did they know it? It is certainly an important question and some outside ...

I am not a sports expert, just an average Vol fan and an avid fan of college football. But there are a few things I don’t understand about the state of our university’s football operation.

Government payrolls are the backbone of the Knoxville economy, but those payrolls drive retail business and the other major driver of the Knoxville economy—the housing market. When I want to get depressed I call around to my list of experts ...

I still don’t know why my father insisted on buying his grandfather’s farm. He was an educator and we lived in town. The farm was on Snake Road, if that tells you anything, and isolated. In those pre-mechanical cotton-picker days ...

Madeline Rogero has become the first woman elected mayor of Knoxville and in fact, the first woman elected mayor of any of the state’s major cities. It is an important barrier to break through when you consider that in the ...

It probably angers both sides to suggest any commonality between the Tea Party and the Occupy Wall Street protests. But that commonality is anger. Anger that results from feeling the country is in trouble and our leaders are being feckless ...

The pace and tone of the Knoxville mayoral race has changed, with the one-on-one choice between Madeline Rogero and Mark Padgett instead of a multi-candidate field.