Today, October 15, 2023 I looked at the website of the daily paper (you gotta be able to give them a credit/debit card to read it, so I ain’t linking it)
The first race I glanced at was City Council at Large Seat B – you would never know that R. Bentley Marlow started and presented solutions to the Missing Middle Housing back early in the Summer after City Council paid money and got the answer that there is a problem in September 2022. So the daily paper likes the labor union organizer that told the East Knoxville Professional and Business Association several months ago she does’t know the job of Councilperson. Marlow has support of Councilwoman Seema Singh, Janet Testerman, Former Council members George Wallace, Finbarr Saunders, Mark Campen and Duane Grieve.
The second race I glanced at was City Council at Large Seat C – it appears balanced between Councilwoman Amelia Parker and Knox Planning Chairman Tim Hill. They did leave a few facts off, the best I could tell. They didn’t mention Hill is a member of the Sports Authority which I believe is a big attribute for him.
Next up, Knoxville Municipal Judge, was written solely by one reporter newcomer Allie Feinberg, likely about the same age age Judge John Rosson‘s opponent. The “guide” has many more words and ink for the challenger. It was the challenger (in the first forum) who first said, “if it isn’t broke don’t fix it.” The Reporterette must have forgotten that. The daily paper with the local weekly columnist a former City Mayor has been supporting Rosson’s opponent in his weekly column, a yard sign in his Kingston Pike yard a few days before the August 29 Primary Election, but currently down.
The daily paper is obsessed over Knox County Republican Party support of some candidates, ignoring that the Knox Democrat Party Chairman Matt Shears best friend and TN Democrat State Executive Committeeman District Five Jack Vaughan is the Paid For Campaign Manager for Rosson’s opponent and other candidate(s) This blog has always reported campaign financial disclosures before any other entities began doing it (imitation is the greatest form of flattery) and all I have seen so far is contributions to Rosson and Hill from the Knox County Republican Party. BUT that ruins the narrative of the daily paper and their weakly (sp) columnist.
at Large Seat A Lynne Fugate who is on the ballot unopposed, due to her opponent Cameron Brooks unfortunately passing away a couple days after the Primary Election. So I did NOT even review the guide.
District Five Councilman Charles Thomas was unopposed in the Primary and the General Election, I did not try to locate any guide if the daily paper bothered to author one.
Due to Mayor Indya Kincannon garnering more that 50% plus 1 vote in the August 29th Primary Election, the position of Mayor will NOT be on the General Election ballot. I did not bother to check if a “guide” was published.
At what point will someone just pull the plug on the daily paper?
I have been here for 19 plus years and will be here as long as the Good Lord keeps me here, I am not building a payWALL to make y’all pay for what I do. I do appreciate the advertisers and supporters, but just like from 2004-2013, I will still do this.
