Publisher’s Positions

Publisher’s Positions By Steve Hunley City Administration Needs To Be More Open And Transparent A few weeks ago, Eric Vreeland, the city spin doctor for the Kincannon administration took issue with my description of the pay for former deputy mayor Stephanie Welch....

Publisher’s Positions

By Steve Hunley When Public Is Not Public Mayor Indya Kincannon has already got a transparency problem as evidenced by the lawsuit filed by the Knoxville News Sentinel over the process used by the city government in selecting a new police chief.  Still, the city just...

Publisher’s Positions

By Steve Hunley Local Bias? The daily newspaper claims to be unbiased, but it has a definite leftist slant to its stories. Nor does the daily newspaper much like Knox County Mayor Glenn Jacobs. The publicity about Bryan Hair, Jacobs’ former chief of staff, seemed...

Publisher’s Positions

By Steve Hunley Another Example of Kincannon’s Tax and Spend Administration Deputy Mayor Stephanie Welch made the announcement last June she was leaving Knoxville to return to Maine in order to be closer to family.  After having served briefly as a member of the...