COVID-19: 8/31/2021 Update
Here’s the return to my Tuesday reports. I’ve moved to twice weekly reporting as the surge worsens, news proliferates beyond what can easily be assembled for one article a week, and the Knox County Health Department...
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COVID-19 and the Knox County Schools
The Knox County School System has become a nexus in the debates regarding the best path forward during the pandemic. While about a third of all school children learned virtually last year, very few started this...
COVID-19: 8/27/2021 Update
Welcome to another Friday report during what is quickly rivaling the worst period we’ve yet seen of the pandemic. As you can see from the news links in the local and state sections below, the pace...
COVID-19: 8/20/2022 Update
Welcome to the third installment after my resumption of COVID-19 reports. I would love to say there is some promise in the numbers this week, but encouragement is hard to find. Our best hope for the...
Scooters, Scooters Everywhere . . .
In an era of COVID-19, shootings in the city, increased homelessness and Black Lives Matter, downtown residents can still find a little room for Scooter Outrage. Controversial from their initial rollout, the delightfully fun, environmentally helpful,...
COVID-19: 8/13/2021 Update
Here’s the second update since my return. The return came, of course, because the numbers are once again trending in the wrong direction. I wish I could say I pulled the trigger too fast and things...
KARM Has an Idea Amid Concerns Regarding Homeless
There might be small, attainable, ideas which could helpfully impact local homeless issues. There are large ideas which could potentially help end the homeless crisis in our city, though they are less obtainable. Residents and business...
COVID-19: 8/6/2021 Update
I hoped to never write another article with “COVID” in the caption. When I wrote the “final” article on May 28, the U.S. was averaging about 23,000 new cases per day and the number was dropping....
City Council Candidates Answer to the Public
Maybe to be more accurate, I should say that most of them did. It’s been an interesting political season in Knoxville. City Council races are traditionally non-partisan, meaning that the Democratic and Republican parties have not...
Board of Health Calls Emergency Meeting
It seemed destined to be a strange affair from the beginning. The audience was comprised of about twenty anti-masker/anti-vaxxer folks who brought their signs and about three or four other people, plus press and the newly...