Lt. Gov. Ron Ramsey is pushing for a new map, and much of the legal community is not happy about it.

When Michelle Rhee’s controversial education reform organization, StudentsFirst, started pouring money into the campaign coffers of state House and Senate Education Committee members last year, it denied it was buying votes. But it has marshaled legislative support for education bills ...

Earlier this month, Knoxville Area Transit released a set of proposed changes to its bus routes. If the proposals are approved by the Knoxville Transportation Authority later this month, many riders may find their typical routes served more frequently by ...

Who knew that electing a vice chair of the largest Republican club in Knox County could get so many GOP shorts in a wad? But evidently there was something more at stake than this not exactly lofty position. Betty Bean ...

On Monday, the Tennessee state Senate voted to expand gun rights by approving SB 142—the so-called “guns-in-cars” bill—by a vote of 28 to 5. House Speaker Beth Harwell has said the House version of the bill will probably be passed ...

Preservationist developers lament that they’re rapidly running out of old downtown buildings to renovate. Joe Petre’s Conversion Properties is reducing that dwindling number by one. A well-known real-estate broker, Petre has just lately turned preservationist developer, and is now converting ...

After the tragic shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary in December, state Sen. Frank Niceley announced his plan to file legislation requiring either an armed resource officer or an armed staff/faculty member at every school. But just last week, state Sen. ...

The first thing you need to know about PechaKucha is how to pronounce it. You emphasize both Cha’s: pe-CHA-ku-CHA. If you say it fast, p’CHA’k’CHA, as veterans do, it gives you a sense of the pace of the thing that, ...

Gov. Bill Haslam wants school vouchers, the Legislature wants a statewide charter authorizer, and those aren’t the only education reform measures heading down the pike this session. But the leaders of two of the most powerful non-profits influencing the changes ...

Jim Conant and Brian Carniello are board members of the Buddhist center, and are sitting quietly against the wall in chairs on the opposite end of the room from the altar. Essentially, that’s what Buddhism is about: finding a peaceful ...

First Night Knoxville had taken over Market Square every New Year’s Eve since 2007, but for the first time since its inauguration, it’s not happening.

As the 112th Congress draws to a close and the “fiscal cliff” dominates the news out of Washington, D.C., Tennessee stands to gain nearly 20,000 acres of new wilderness protection for six of the wildest parts of the Cherokee National ...

After a fiery public meeting on the James White Parkway extension, it’s clear that both sides want their way. But that’s the only thing clear about the project, reports Cari Wade Gervin.

Starting early next year, Knoxville will have Zipcar car-sharing both downtown and on the University of Tennessee’s campus.

The UT Faculty Senate passed a resolution in April supporting benefit equality for all partnered employees of the university, whether married, or unmarried and in domestic partnerships. It was rejected by the university, but that hasn’t stopped faculty and staff ...