Fri
Aug 17 2007
11:04 am
By: R. Neal
The Knoxville News Sentinel reports today that Knox County Commission passed a resolution three years ago requiring non-profits receiving county grant money to file an annual report. No reports have ever been filed.
What this tells you is that such resolutions a) have no teeth, and b) are for purely political grandstanding purposes.
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