NOTICE OF PUBLIC MEETING

January 24, 2008 5:30 p.m.
Charles W. Cansler YMCA
616 Jessamine Street

The City of Knoxville's Community Development Division is developing its 2008 Annual Action Plan. This plan will include projects and activities the City will perform from July 2008 through June 2009 to address the housing, infrastructure, service, and other community needs identified in the 2005-2009 Consolidated Plan.

The Knoxville Asperger Support Group has a new location and date! Read more for details...

The parade will begin in Market Square and end at the future site of the city's new downtown dog park on the southeastern corner of Summit Hill Drive and Central Avenue.

Registrants will receive a doggie goody bag and a royal court will be selected for the best dressed. Grooming and vaccination stations will be on site, as well as food vendors (including gourmet dog treats). Participants may purchase Mardi Growl Parade dog shirts or photos of their favorite pets in front of a Mardi Growl background.

Registration is $8. As required by law, all dogs must be leashed and owners are required to clean up any dog waste.

Don't forget to check out the broadcast of "Hillary’s Voices Across America: A National Town Hall live on Hallmark Channel".

Knoxville is one of 22 cities selected to host the event.

February 4, 2008 at 9 p.m. EST

Comcast Channel 59
Charter Channel 77
Directv Channel 312

Update: The local Town Hall Meeting will be held at the Women's Basketball Hall of Fame. The doors open at 7:30PM and the public is invited.

Barack Obama Campaign:
Election Night Party
Barley's Pizza in the Old City - Upstairs
7:00 PM

Hillary Clinton Campaign:
Election Night Party
Calhoun's on Bearden Hill
7:00 PM

The Democratic Party of Knox County is having an election night party on Tuesday, February 5, 2008 at the Urban Bar and Corner Cafe, 109 North Central Ave. in Knoxville’s Old City to watch the primary returns. Festivities begin around 7:30 PM. NOTE: This is a change from the previously announced venue. More info here.

UT Issues Committee:

Seymour Hersh, a Pulitzer Prize winning journalist and author, will discuss his most recent book, Chain of Command: The Road from 9/11 to Abu Ghraib , in which he lays out the chain of events from the September 11th attacks to the war in Iraq.

Hersh’s work became famous in 1969 when he exposed the My Lai massacre and its subsequent cover-up. As both a free-lance journalist and a writer for The New York Times and the Associated Press, Hersh has written controversial and groundbreaking reports on the C.IA’s bombing of Cambodia, Henry Kissinger’s wiretapping of his staff, the C.I.A’s operations against Chilean President Salvador Allende, and prison abuse in Abu Ghraib. Hersh currently contributes regularly to The New Yorker . In addition to his journalistic contributions, Hersh has published eight books.

Event Details

Date: Feb. 6, 2008 19:30
Location: UC Auditorium
Cost: Free

Contact: issues@utk.edu

This month's Democracy for Knoxville gathering will take place at Sullivan's in Rocky Hill on Tuesday, February 12, at 6:30pm. This will be our second meeting at Sullivan's and you really should make an effort to attend. The food and service are both excellent!

Plus they have a good selection of beer.

Sullivan's is located on Northshore Drive in the Rocky Hill shopping center parking lot (map).

This, as always, is mostly a social gathering. We will spend some time talking about the Presidential race.

Please RSVP here or shoot me an email at paul@bully-pulpit.com.