Russ McBee

As a consequence of this debacle in our local government, Knox County Commissioners are under a court order not to violate the Sunshine Law again, under penalty of fines and possibly even jail time. Given the events of the last year and a half in this county, one would think they'd have sense enough not to discuss the public's business in private ...

We're 10 inches below normal on rainfall for the year, the Republicans control the state Senate for the first time since Moses was a kid, and now we have to worry about fire ants in Knox County: Last year, Highway 62 from the Anderson County line was the northern border of the imported fire ant line in Knox County.The state's proposed new line ...

An article in Friday's New York Times by Matthew Wald bears the provocative title, ''Wind Farms May Not Lower Air Pollution, Study Suggests.'' This is, of course, completely ridiculous. The article is about a report by the National Academy of Sciences on the subject, but doesn't provide a link to the report itself (the ...