Shock And Awe (aka Brian's Blog)

This from this evenings News-Sentinel website. Knox County Schools have taken nearly 10 months and awarded $21,000.00 to the 24 year old cus...

This morning in response to an Open Records Request from WBIR, the Knox County Independent Auditor released the preliminary p-card audit on ...

Remember the Education Improvement Act of 1992, the one that took away your vote for a Superintendent of Schools. They said when they passed...

Our Sympathy and Prayers to the family of former State Representative Gary Rowe D- Memphis. Yesterday morning he passed away after a battle ...

For years our Tennessee Senate has passed legislation asking Tennesseans to vote on a constitutional amendment protecting the innocent lives...

My friend Michael English released his newest studio project today. The CD is titled The Prodigal Comes Home. I wanted to actually go to a s...

With the 9 Charter amendments presented to County Commission last night by the 1996 Knoxville/Knox County Unification Committee (Don Parnell...

Prior to voting on the Knox County One Question, Commissioner Mike Hammond passed a resolution saying that upon passage on second reading th...

Commissioner R. Larry Smith said tonight "I don't know the Charter, maybe I should." In response Law Director John Owings scho...

During debate tonight, Commissioner Mark Harmon used a verbal description of a visual picture of a newspaper editor expending bodily fluids ...

Thomas "Tank" Strickland was elected County Commission Chairman unanimously. Commissioner Mark Harmon nominated Commissioner Mike ...

The following post is a contribution from one of our Brian's Blog contributors concerning this Knoxville News~Sentinel editorial cartoon...

This announcement in the Karns version of the Slopper News caused a few eyebrows to raise. Lambert, Rountree to meet Knox County commissione...

Brian's Blog is criticized regularly for a word that is not spelt correctly or a grammar error on occasion. That is fine, we are open to...

This from Metro Pulse. Good Read If our e-mail is any indication, the best-read document in Knoxville since the election is Amy Broyles’ ca...

This from the Metro Pulse. Winning Friends On a recent Sunday morning, Democratic attorney Dennis Francis opined, on WBIR’s Inside Tennesse...

The day before Bob Corker was elected as the next United States Senator from Tennessee. Senator John McCain came to Knoxville. At the time, ...

It is fairly obvious that the man that I supported in 2000 will be our Republican Presidential candidate. He sums it all up in this 20 secon...

It was suggested today on the voice (AM 1040 10:00 a.m. - 12:00 noon) that all County Commissioners needed a nickname. Several Commissioners...