Dennis Francis: Irish charm, friend to many
The Glamour Shot Guy showed up in the Knoxville Journal newsroom one afternoon in late spring,...
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Category: Knox Scene
In Gaza, humans connect and work goes on
(Editor’s Note: Betty Bean wrote this interview with then-UT Professor Brian Barber in 2017...
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Outside money tips state primary
Editor’s Note: It was just 10 years ago, August 2014, but it was a turning point election in many...
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Booker sings a new song
(Editor’s Note: Betty Bean wrote this circa 2017, on the occasion of Bob Booker’s CD release.) The...
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Keeping the memories and moving on
Alex Haley left us an uncountable number of pithy quotes, but nothing he ever said rang truer than...
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Why do Republicans hate democracy?
A couple of weeks ago, state Rep. Jason Zachary slapped a quote from Plato onto the digital...
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Public schools build community; let’s keep ’em
I spent my first 12 years counting the days until I could be a Bobcat. My father and his siblings...
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Republicans just aren’t funny anymore
I had a notion to write my first 2024 column asking why Republicans are so mean. Having taken most...
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Betty Bean gets a break
Thursday opinion columnist Betty Bean will return in the New Year. She’s celebrating...
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Cameron Brooks: 2023 Person of the Year
I’ve chosen a Person of the Year every December for longer than there’s been a KnoxTNToday, and...
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Downtown parking woes
Downtown parking just got harder, meaner and (probably) more expensive (nothing gets cheaper,...
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RA12903157
Recently, my daughter started asking me questions about her father’s death. Not hard questions,...
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