Newcomers on City Council, public improvements projects and a new zoning code are signs that major changes are in store for Knoxville.
The Bully Pulpit
Three months in, Glenn Jacobs is finding his feet — and his voice — as chief executive of Knox County.
Black Wednesday: The Compass Primer
The Black Wednesday scandal still reverberates through Knox County political culture, even though most of those involved are no longer in office.
How It Works: The University of Tennessee
State university systems take an array of forms, and the University of Tennessee is a particularly odd one. It is less a system than a small collection of affiliated schools.
Knox 2018: Knox County
In Knox County politics, the stage was set for this year to be mostly an encore performance, with lots of familiar faces in slightly different roles.
How It Works: Knox County Schools
With 60,000 students and nearly 4,000 teachers in 88 buildings, Knox County Schools serves every community from Farragut to Five Points. Here’s how the complex system works.
How It Works: Knox County Government
Knox County government has a mayor, a sheriff and a whole bunch of other independently elected officeholders. So who’s in charge?
How Local Government Works
Local government is complicated, but don’t despair! We have compiled a handy set of quick guides to the structure and history of our local institutions.
Knox 2018: A User’s Guide to Local Government and Politics
Knoxville in 2018 is a complicated place. A moderate-progressive Southern Appalachian city in a libertarian-conservative Southern Appalachian county, it is home to a strong and diverse culture fueled by competing and often contradictory interests and philosophies.
Knox 2018: The Economy
One of the long-noted ironies of life in East Tennessee is that in a region dominated politically for a century and a half by the Republican Party and its limited-government philosophy, the economy relies significantly on the federal and state governments.
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