Barred From the Ballot Box

Maurice Clark lost his right to vote, but he hasn’t lost his passion for helping others in Knoxville effect change and participate in the democratic ...

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Learning Through Teaching

Ask an average 16-year-old boy about the effectiveness of condoms and he’s likely to blush, look away and maybe even walk off. Ask Conrad Honicker ...

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Seven Islands Provides Countless Resources

Walking the 300-plus acres of Knox County’s Seven Islands Wildlife Refuge is like taking a step back in time. The untouched expanse of fields, hills ...

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KSO: Virtuoso Paganini

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Residents attended the Knox Co. Neighborhod Conference March 8 at the Knoxville Convention and Expo Center to discuss ways citizens can improve their communities.  Knoxville Voice spoke with some attendees to ask: "What improvements would you like to see in your neighbrhood?"

Peggy Myers-Carter, Mechanicsville Community Association

"We're looking for traffic improvements right now because we do have a lot of children in the neighborhod, which is a new subdivision there.  The cars just come through there flying, and the streets are narrow.  We're just trying to nip ths in the bud before somebody gets hurt, whether it be a child or pedestrian."

James E. Davis

"I'd like to see some more beautification going on, and I'd like to see a little bit more enforcement of the leash law.  We do have some issues with abandoned property.  One of the big things we've been looking at is getting some of the illegal street activity eradicated."

Judy Kibbe, Concerned Neighbors in Camelot Subdivision, Karns

"We'd like to see our neighborhood grow and people take care of their property better - empty lots that are overgrown and harboring critters...We'd also like to see traffic control - a little less speed up and down our hill...We'd like to have speed bumps basically.  We'd like to see the people that have the goats, get rid of the goats.  We've had a real problem with animal control and animals running loose.  The leash law hasn't been enforced."

Laura Rule, From Legal Aid of East TN

"In the lower income neighborhoods, for the people to feel like they have more access to getting landlords to clean up property that might be driving their property values down.  I'd like for them to feel the court system is more user-friendly to them, where they can get acces to the remedies they need just like somebody down in Farragut would get. To see that the codes are enforced and the landlords do keep the houses equitable, and that the plumbing works.  A lot of times, poor tenants are not able to do that, and they feel like they don't have any recourse, and they're just at the mercy of the landlord.  There's a lot of good landlords, but for the ones that aren't, the lower income people don't feel like they have a way to get a remedy, and I'd like to see that change."

Ripley's Aquarium of the Smokies

If you’ve never experienced the peculiar sensation of standing two feet below a shark as it glides above or being surrounded by an underwater world ...

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The Dogwood Arts Festival

As the dogwoods bloom, Knoxvillians once again celebrate the coming of springtime with the Dogwood Arts Festival, hosting various events in and around the city ...

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R.B. Morris: Poet, Lyricist, Playwright

RB Morris’ collections of poetry, music and a one-man play about the life of fellow writer and Knoxville native, James Agee, make him a local ...

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Virginia H. Dale

Oak Ridge National Laboratory scientist Virginia H. Dale had a front row seat to last year’s Nobel Peace Prize-winning work on global climate change. As ...

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