Safe Sex For Your Pets
If the Nashville Zoo has any openings, they should consider hiring my favorite KNS commenter, Billie, to take care of their rhinoceroses, birds, and other prisoners. She will get it straightened out. i think if you had different kinds of pets you have to keep them in different rooms from having sex. that is what [...]
A Great Place to Work?
As a former employee, I was interested in the article the KNS ran today about Denso Manufacturing Tennessee’s expansion. It was about what I would expect from a local paper writing about a local company expanding–lots of talk about new jobs, complimentary remarks about the people of the region, and a few standard corporate-type comments [...]
A Little Editing Wouldn’t Hurt
Note to Commissioner Paul Pinkston, who released a taped conversation with Knox County Mayor Mike Ragsdale to the New Sentinel: Audacity is free and easy to use. Although I’d rather not hear the toilet flush, I’m at least thankful that you waited until you were “done” to start the tape. One may wonder why the [...]
A Great Story Opportunity
A while back, I wrote a post about a few advantages newspapers have in the market and how they could use them to remain relevant. Using these assets–excellent writing, investigative journalism, and local marketplace branding–newspapers can give us something no one else can. Today in the KNS, at least on their web site, there is [...]
Racist Graffiti And A Paper Noose
This not only appears on the KNS, it’s on the AP Wire. The Sumner County Sheriff’s Department is investigating a possible hate crime after racist graffiti defaming a black school administrator were found with a paper-towel noose. Graffiti in a restroom? *gasp* A noose made out of paper towells? *oh no!* Congratulations news outlets. The [...]
Finch Addresses County Commission
Hat tip to mbradley for pointing us to the video of Wednesday’s meeting. If you aren’t local, this is hilarious. If you are, it’s truly sad. WARNING: multiple instances here of the pot calling the kettle…uh…cookware. You can just feel/smell the love here, can’t you? Story in the KNS.
Can You Define Conflict of Interests Again?
From the KNS: Cynthia Finch, Knox County’s senior director of Community Services, will give up control of the county’s grants programs so she can continue serving on the boards of nonprofits that receive grant funding, the mayor’s office announced today. The remarkable thing about this story is that she actually had to be told by [...]
Ready For The Majors?
Political operatives employed in public positions, no-bid contracts awarded to friends, e-mail theft, nepotism and cronyism (the KNS is full of links on this), renaming of positions to stay on the payroll, lobster for lunch, trips paid for with misdirected funds, secret meetings to determine public policy, providing funds to apparently fake entities, strongarming the citizens [...]
Red Light Cameras — The Real Enemy
From the KNS Knoxville police arrested a man Sunday morning for allegedly shooting a traffic light camera several times at the intersection of Broadway and Interstate 640. Surely I’m not the only one snickering at this. How can the police find the guy who allegedly shot a traffic light camera three times at 2 a.m. in [...]
How Sad Is It That This Makes Me Happy?
The KNS reports that Scott Moore would like to repeal the $30 wheel tax in Knox County. “In times of a slow economy, we ought to be able to help our citizens and put some money back in their pockets,” Moore said this morning as commission’s Intergovernmental and Finance committees began meeting. It is also [...]
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