by Grant A. Mincy Life is pretty good here in the Volunteer State. As an East Tennessean I am particularly fond of the Great Smoky Mountains, our scruffy little city …
Parental Guidance: When Your Child Doesn’t Fit in a Time of Increasing Intolerance
by Kurt Devol Almost asleep, I heard a loud caterwauling. I stumbled downstairs and identified the noise as a mix of screaming and crying, and I picked up the pace …
What’s Really at Stake for the Smarter Cities Partnership?
What’s in a name? In the case of a just-launched program called Knoxville Extreme Energy Makeover, not exactly what it says. It’s not as if all of Knoxville will get …
Knoxville: Summer 2015
We are talking now of summer evenings in Knoxville, Tennessee, in the time that was so successfully disguised to me between youth and adult, that wavering period between knowing who …
TVA’s Integrated Resource Plan Gives Short Shrift to Renewables and Energy Efficiency
Let’s start by clearing the air. Yes, it is a good thing that, in pretty much every scenario in the Tennessee Valley Authority’s proposed Integrated Resource Plan, clearing the air …