High-Rise Appeal Denied
The Planning Commission unanimously upheld a city Design Review Board decision that would allow an 18-story apartment building to move forward.
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- Pushed by a state law, the Board of Education is preparing a policy that will remove books with sexual content, nudity and violence from school libraries.
- Big Ears founder Ashley Capps talks about this year’s festival, which brings music and art to Knoxville and showcases the city to the world.
- A $42.6 million federal grant will help pay for infrastructure improvements to help repair the damage of urban renewal.
- Joseph ‘Black Atticus’ Woods, Knoxville’s poet laureate, writes and raps from the heart.