An editorial wonders how much of a future TVA has as a public utility, now that its board has been restructured to better fit with a corporate image that spells p-r-i-v-a-t-i-z-e us; If the non-profit foundation to raise “Great Schools” money forms a true schools’ partnership, it may have a great and positive impact, Joe Sullivan says in Insights; Frank Cagle’s Frank Talk centers on the issuance of summonses, rather than arrest warrants, to career criminals as a way to lessen jail overcrowding; and Jack Neely finds an offer to have a ball with laughing gas back in 1823 Knoxville in Secret History.
Citybeat
Molly Kincaid reports on National Coal Corporation’s recently filed lawsuit against members of the local environmental organization Katuah Earth First.
The Ghosts of Turkey Creek
In exploring the past, present and future impacts of the retail/office/residential phenomenon at the end of Parkside Drive, Metro Pulse staff writers learn that Tennessee’s hottest property is a money factory that’s just getting up and running toward its final fulfillment.
Automatics for the People
Expiration of the federal ban on assault weapons hasn’t produced much of an, ahem...boom in sales of the military-style, rapid-fire weapons, Molly Kincaid learns as she snaps off a few rounds to familiarize herself with the “kick” some people get out of owning and firing them.
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