OK, but the Shoney's buffet is better Friday evenings.

Something definately needs to be done, there are far too many issues to take care of at just one monthly meeting. Even the city has two meetings a month and the county is far larger and takes care of a lot more municipal issues than the city.

You mean Food City? Are there any Bi-Los left?

The comment of Lumpy's I liked in today's paper was the one about them not being "bad people." They just had a different opinion of what the sunshine law meant. You see, there is no right or wrong anymore. One person's wrong opinion is as valid as any "law," probably one written by a liberal lawyer. This has become one of the most common of Republican talking points.

People whose job it is to know better and don't are woefully ignorant at best. Wrong and maybe criminally so, at worst.

"What if each district's commissioners simply announced that they would meet at Shoney's on the first Sunday night of each month. Sunshine the meeting and show up. Let interested citizens attend. Discuss district business."

I assume you would rotate the Shoney's of choice per district.....is there a Shoney's gap we have to deal with first? I'm not sure there is a Shoney's in Farragut. Possibly a workshop is needed for an alternate location.

Smart Commissioners would get on that bandwagon now.

Most commissioners have been talking about this for some time. Example: holding Finance and Intergovernmental on the same morning has been a desaster for some time and is a topic of discussion every month.

Problem is that these types of changes will turn the elected offices into practically full time jobs (or, lifestyles, as some have put it). Just because there's a greater quantity of work doesn't insure that there's a greater quality.

And the position of county mayor needs to be rolled into the legislative body so that this position also falls under the open meetings act. If not, we've got the same problems on the horizon with just a different cast of characters.

As a resident of this idiot's district (no, I didn't vote for him), I call on "Lumpy" to resign his office. He is nothing short of an embarassment to the good people of Powell and the rest of our district. He won't resign and we'll have to vote him out in 2010.

The Lump needs to stick to selling salvaged cars from his nasty little car lot. Come to think of it, the same cars seem to always be sitting there?

Lump, I won't forget.

Bi-lo is the name of a gas station/convenience mart/deli at the corner of John Sevier & Martin Mill.

I guess the SK times will have to do a stakeout there if they want to get the political news. I suggest going in disguise and carrying one of those eavsdropping devices you see on Tee Vee.

I don't guess it would work if the power brokers went out to the parking lot beside the busy truck traffic.

But at least they'd be out in the sunshine! Does that count as a defense?

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Submitted by Factchecker on Wed, 2007/10/03 - 12:37pm.

You mean Food City? Are there any Bi-Los left?

If it looks like a Bi Lo, it's a Bi Lo.

It it looks like a Food City, it's a White Store.

I don't know any native Knoxvillian over the age of 40 who refers to James White Parkway as anything but the Business Loop.

I drove to town from East Knox the other day and ran into a street named "Support Our Troops." It's down by the Coliseum.

So we've got roads named Ed Shouse, Brownaires, Hall of Fame and out in Halls, Shade Weaver Road -- named for the patriarch of the folks who cut Wanda Moody's lawn.

One time Mary Lou Horner renamed the old Commercial Park Drive in honor of the Regal Entertainment chief -- Mike Campbell Road. We had a street party on Campbell's birthday and Bruce Wuethrich showed up with a green and white street sign, as I recall. Underneath the road name it said, "Dead End."

The dead end part came down that night.

And Campbell was so embarrassed at the whole thing that he insisted Knox County rename the street yet again and it's now called Regal Drive. Those of us who live here, of course, still call it Commercial Park Drive. -- s.