The anti-out-of-stater lobby TADOS is back for the governor’s race, pending resolution of an internal audit showing 24 of its 61 members arrived after 2019 — including the new chapter president, who moved from Sacramento to get away from people like himself.
The city’s 1937 ledger lists exactly 4,312 WPA blocks on Kingston Pike. A curb crew has now found a 4,313th, and it is an inch taller than the rest.
City planners said the hill at the former Kerbela Shriners site fails the same seven South Waterfront Form-Based Code requirements a neighborhood group cites against the proposed apartments.
A Knoxville naturalist’s 39-year photographic record shows Market Square’s pigeon population has been the same 40 individual birds since 1987. “They don’t hatch and they don’t die. They just attend.”
UT says its police force can secure a sitting president more reliably than a free DJ show, after Saturday’s screened Neyland operation succeeded four days after a rented Fraternity Park fence gave way under about 10,000 people.
Gene Wallace’s machined key rolls and locks plastic toothpaste tubes, recovering the stranded paste. He considers the invention a defeat and sells it at cost.
Twenty-seven of the roughly 143 Flock cameras Knox County is cloth-shielding pending an Oct. 7 removal deadline turn out to have been installed by Knoxville’s own police department. The county’s Vendor Displeasure Matrix gains a seventh tier to cope.
A city task force asks a neighborhood it razed for 1960s urban renewal to choose from seven pre-priced redevelopment options for the site. Putting back what was there isn’t one of them.
A Sevierville arcade owner has slotted the White House’s new border-wall arcade game between Skee-Ball and the claw machine, at the same ticket payout as everything else in the row.
Steve Townsend’s last TDOT review found no red flags in the state’s $9.2 billion Choice Lanes contract. Three days later, he started work for the company that won it.
Knox County Commission approved a $150,000-a-year ground lease for 120 acres of AgriCentre East — the site’s first real document, after $140,000 spent just branding it.
Knox County ordered its Flock cameras removed within 30 days. Three days earlier, the sheriff’s office asked the state for money for 270 more.
City Council votes 7-1 to regulate monkeys with an ordinance written for dogs. “We have one number. The number is four.”
The Greater Knoxville brewery census has again certified a final count of “between 24 and 38, inclusive.” Two breweries have opened since the census ended.
The last known White Stores shopping cart, recovered from Third Creek after roughly forty years, is headed to a museum. “I knew by the handle. You don’t forget the handle.”