The other media outlets are doing it, so we will too. Unless something dramatic happens in the next week, here are the top 2010 highlights from KnoxViews...

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Top 10 Most Popular Articles:

1. Pro-exclusion petition approved (353 votes)
2. State overrules city charter on number of signatures required (314 votes)
3. Oil spill update: Obama's slow motion Katrina (313 votes)
4. BP oil spill update: Work continues to contain spill (313 votes)
5. Oil spill update: Increased flow of oil and BS observed in Gulf (309 votes)
6. Who wants to give away some TIF sugar? (307 votes)
7. Bring Me Your Populist Rage (306 votes)
8. Suburban bobcat evidence (306 votes)
9. Joe Sullivan's article (292 votes)
10. Slow justice (290 votes)

Top 10 Most Viewed Articles

1. State overrules city charter on number of signatures required (14667 views)
2. musicians boycott arizona over immigration law (12408 views)
3. Public meeting re. West Town area homeless supportive housing (6509 views)
4. Bring Me Your Populist Rage (6263 views)
5. KnoxViews endorses Haslam in GOP primary for governor (4422 views)
6. Kiffin and crew leaving for USC (4152 views)
7. Medical Marijuana Bill Introduced In Tennessee (3822 views)
8. CITY COUNCIL TO HOLD WORKSHOP ON TEN YEAR PLAN (3742 views)
9. U.S. Congress reconvenes Wednesday. Ping pong, anyone? (3697 views)
10. Citizens for the Ten Year Plan (3657 views)

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6. Tamara Shepherd (489)
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8. Anonymously Nine (459)
9. michael kaplan (421)
10. Andy Axel (408)
11. rikki (389)
12. EricLykins (332)
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19. Pam Strickland (233)
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25. SnM (134)

Year in Review:

A lot happened this year - everything from local and state elections to urban chickens, a Sarah Palin hacker conviction, the Midway decision, TYP debates, a couple of KnoxViewer local business launches, a new UT football coach and lots more. Here's a flashback sampler of KnoxViews articles and discussions of noteworthy 2010 events.

• The next step in the Battle of Midway: A Participatory Plan for Knox Co.
• Belmont University: Don't ask, Don't tell, Don't get fired?
• Crowded field for Knoxville Mayor
• Reverse Elitism and American Politics
• Burchett's plan: A lease-back deal for a new Carter School
• Baxter: Holston Gases will be a permanent fixture on the South Waterfront
• David Kernell sentenced
• Hillside/Ridgetop Protection Plan
• Alcoa "Parkway" TDOT public hearing
• Maryville Daily Times covers StopAlcoaParkway.com launch
• Carpe Librum announces closing
• Governor's race: Mercy rules in effect
• Clinton to TN Dems: Move beyond anger, apathy, and amnesia
• What it is ain't exactly clear
• Tennessee preliminary scorecard
• A perfect storm wipes out a bunch of Democrats
• Half a billion dollars raised inside the beltway for "outside the beltway" candidates
• Becker stepping down?
• WhitesCreek represents at EPA hearing
• WBIR to air important TV/online special about prescription drug abuse epidemic
• Pam Strickland hits the nail on the head: TYP doesn't need Jon Lawler
• JulieApple's October First Friday with the 100 Block Grand Opening Party
• Incentives approved for downtown beauty school
• Henley (Street) Bridge PR overkill?
• State promotes electric cars
• Congratulations to Pam Strickland
• TDOT v. Townsend
• Blount Shaq Attack
• TVA idling coal-fired generators
• Crosby Stills and Nash at the Tennessee Theatre
• Arrowmont staying in Gatlinburg
• Open house at the new Pellissippi State Blount campus
• My account of the NSM rally on August 14, 2010.
• Largest solar PV array in the state and the TVA region dedicated today
• Baptist Hospital repackaged as The Bridges at Riverside
• Secretary of State election debut: FAIL
• High temp weather alert
• Orange alert, day 3
• Austin-East: They are giving it up to the state
• Wounded Inskip principal returns to work
• KUB target of tree-trimming lawsuit?
• Knoxville Downtown Dog park
• Citizens for the Ten Year Plan
• Is This What Happens When You Try to Care in Knoxville?
• The forces are starting to align
• 100 Block Gay Street Ribbon Cutting
• KnoxViews endorses Haslam in GOP primary for governor
• Reaction to "obscure liberal blog" endorsement of Haslam
• UT: $14.6 million please to demolish Golf Range, Sutherland Apts.?
• Maryville Daily Times sold
• Orange Route will not proceed
• TYP meeting report
• TVA walks back green power suspension
• Making lemonade from Cityview lemons
• Sunsphere/KPH responds to "vicious smear campaign"
• The Knoxville Urban Hen Coalition and the Chicken Vote
• A Bonnaroo Review
• KnoxViews exclusive: Dr. Gregory Button on the BP oil spill disaster
• Hey, hey, my, my...
• Tennessee flood update
• Get yourself over to Frussie's
• Ijams Nature Center 100th Anniversary Celebration
• TYP public meeting re. PSH costs
• City finalizes Cumberland Ave. plans
• KnoxViews wins ETSPJ award
• Deniers come out for Al Gore's visit to UT Knoxville
• Breakfast with the kudzu eating goats
• Sameer Abdallah Jubran Born:September 29,1934 Died:May 4th,2010
• Patio dogs
• Kernell verdict in: one felony conviction, one misdemeanor
• Semi-Liveblogging the 4/28 TYP Meeting
• Congratulations to Scott Barker at the KNS
• Frussie's
• School board & creationism: shaken & stirred
• housing first
• McCord single-handedly buried mountaintop removal bill
• New York Times review of Big Ears
• Tennessee awarded $500 million in "Race to the Top"
• Sen. Alexander unhinged over student loan reform
• Watch President Obama sign the health care bill
• TAMIS Dogwood Arts 50th Anniversary retro
• West Knox site not suitable for homeless housing development
• Tennessee gun laws: Exporting gun violence
• Al Gore's honorary UT doctorate degree
• Nama moving in next door to Regal Rivera?
• Urban Outfitters approved for $500,000 CBID grant
• Urban Outfitters deal goes cold.
• Robert Loest RIP
• MPC approves East Sector Plan including Midway
• Latest UT football promotional tie in
• Permanent supportive housing proposed for Lakeshore
• What goes around, comes around (in the good sense)
• TVA arrests journalists at Kingston ash spill disaster site
• UT welcomes Coach Derek Dooley
• Kiffin and crew leaving for USC

BONUS: Year in Photos

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