Knox beat

This is the fun part of watching elections, seeing people like Nate Silver quantify it: In short, it looks like Trump will carry Tennessee, but Clinton will win overall. Here are the figures behi...

https://knoxbeat.wordpress.com/2016/06/29/national-odds-for-u-s-president-and-nate-silvers-numbers/

Today our friend over at Humphrey on the Hill posted that Gov. Bill Haslam says the Brexit could impact Tennesseans negatively. In short (picked up via The Tennessean): “I’m concerned — I t...

https://knoxbeat.wordpress.com/2016/06/28/brexit-tennessee-and-so-on/

Go see if Knox County Mayor Tim Burchett can toss a disc this coming Friday with the opening of a disc golf course in Powell. Your county reporter once played disc golf, and lost about $20 worth ...

https://knoxbeat.wordpress.com/2016/06/28/disc-golf-course-to-open-in-knox/

Found this in the inbox this past week, from the state GOP folks. Pretty interesting numbers breakdown, but more interesting to see the big bump in Republican voters. From a release on delegate a...

https://knoxbeat.wordpress.com/2016/03/07/gop-statewide-figures-a-breakdown/

The county’s ambulance service is donating a defibrillator to Knox County. From a release: On Wednesday, Feb. 10, Rural/Metro will donate a new Automated External Defibrillator to the Knox Coun...

https://knoxbeat.wordpress.com/2016/02/09/rural-metro-to-donate-aed-to-county/

From a release: Knox County’s 17th annual Holiday Festival of Lights at The Cove at Concord Park will kick off tonight, Thursday, Dec. 17 at 5:30 p.m. with Knox County Mayor Tim Burchett flippi...

https://knoxbeat.wordpress.com/2015/12/17/knox-co-festival-of-lights-kickoff-today/

If you want to run in Knox County, you have scant time to turn in a petition for office. Like until noon tomorrow. That said, it’s a pretty crowded field out there, so it’s basically up to th...

https://knoxbeat.wordpress.com/2015/12/09/election-filing-deadline-tomorrow-at-noon-an-early-preview/

Maintained by Knoxville News Sentinel Knox County reporter Gerald Witt.

https://knoxbeat.wordpress.com/2015/12/04/apropos-of-nothing-heres-some-monty-python/

Sometimes as a reporter you realize that there are topics on which others are far more well-versed than you. This is one of those times. Joe Carcello, a University of Tennessee Department Head an...

https://knoxbeat.wordpress.com/2015/12/03/ut-prof-goes-to-d-c-to-talk-small-business-investment-vs-consumer-protection/

Real quickly: A local political blogger posted about a business on land that the county mayor owns. It gets some attention, we do a story that went online. Within the same day day the business ow...

https://knoxbeat.wordpress.com/2015/11/03/no-permits-no-problem-or-you-dont-know-what-you-dont-know/