GOP Fractures Exposed

Local Republicans engage in a tempestuous text-messaging thread about party unity heading into the August general election.

Family Matters

County commissioners decline to hear Fox’s Nuclear Family Month proclamation, which critics say doesn’t recognize many familial arrangements.

County commissioners are taking up immigration issues as outrage grows over federal agents’ killing of a man in Minnesota.

Commissioners bestow an honor traditionally reserved for Knox County residents and organizations on the late conservative speaker.

Two commissioners want more detailed financial reporting from entities receiving county funding, but others are skeptical that it’s needed.

Every Monday we run down the week’s public meetings and civic events.

Commissioner Andy Fox asked to delay the vote, but his colleagues criticised him for being unprepared and proceeded to approve the spending plan.

Commission OKs the county’s first residential infrastructure development district, with conditions.

County Commissioner Rhonda Lee’s second attempt to restrict county funding to agencies that ‘sexualize children’ runs into pointed questions.

County Commission votes down proposals to rezone property against owners’ wishes, but signals new skepticism of development.