Shock And Awe (aka Brian's Blog)

In 2003 then Mayor Bill Haslam in his first budget proposed and City Council passed a property tax increase on the citizens of Knoxville. In...

Check this from the E.W. Scripps owned Metro Pulse.

Here Phil Ballard, candidate for Knox County Property Assessor next year walks during Monday's Farragut Fourth of July parade. He had se...

Thursday's Knoxville News Sentinel has a story of Doug Bataille extolling the virtues of Knox County's Three Ridges Golf Course. Les...

Knox County Commissioner Sam McKenzie has declared that the recession is over. What world is he living in? I guess when as a Commissioner yo...

State Senate District 6 Candidate Victoria DeFreese spent considerable time talking with potential voters. I stopped her long enough for th...

Today's Grand Marshall's were the family of Farragut Coach Ryan Shoup. Coach Shoup passed away after a brief illness last fall. So, ...

Today's Georgiana Vines column ( here ) is evidently because she read Shock And Awe (aka Brian's Blog) here on Friday June 24, 2011...

State Senate Candidate Victoria DeFreese is utilizing new media mediums to reach out to the voters of State Senate District 6. She has a web...

Former City Council Member Joe Hultquist was a guest this morning on the Ed and Bob Show on WNOX FM 100.3. During the one hour spot, Hultqui...

E.W. Scripps writer Betty Bean used her column this week to expel a bunch of gaseous rhetoric. Anyone that has read her columns, knows of he...

Hubert Smith of the Hubert Smith Radio Show and One on One with Hubert Smith asked some questions and posted his initial thoughts on the new...

This morning, Community Activist Walt Wojnar asked me a question that stumped me. So, Knox County sells Three Ridges Golf Course, Concord Pa...

NRR (Natural Resource Recovery) the entity that has tarnished the previous Knox County Mayoral administration. The entity that has Brad Maye...

I totally support Mayor Burchett's proposal that pays for a new Carter Elementary School with cash. You see the Mayor proposes selling t...

On Friday, while most of North Knoxville was hoping their power would get restored by KUB. It seems that KPD was running radar and not just ...

This story on today's News Sentinel website. So, it's $221,000 plus dollars supposedly to assist the South Knox Waterfront project....

Marshall Stair , candidate for City Council At-Large Seat B is an interesting candidate. He is young (32 years old), he is the son of Caesar...

The News Sentinel reports here yesterday's official announcement that former East Knox County Commissioner Richard Armstrong will seek ...

Commissioner Broyles is concerned about two anonymous emails received in June and one received in October 2010. I have served as an elected ...