Gerald Witt

• South Knox waterfront plans pick up Published 05/28/2012 at 4 a.m.

  The city's plan for a $5 million park with a boat landing on the South Knoxville waterfront is just one of a few signs that the once-dormant area is awakening to development.

• Knoxville City Council members deride Burchett's county budget Updated 05/23/2012 at 7:48 p.m.

  Knoxville City Council members admonished the budget plan from Knox County Mayor Tim Burchett, saying that the county needs to pull its weight on funding homeless programs and other joint efforts.

• Knoxville City Council begins budget talks Updated 05/22/2012 at 7:24 p.m.

  City Council members would fund more Knoxville sidewalks if they could.

• Knoxville city budget meetings kick off Tuesday Published 05/21/2012 at 5:12 p.m.

  KNOXVILLE — Knoxville City Council members will hear from city departments and Mayor Madeline Rogero on her proposed 2012-13 budget in a series of meetings starting Tuesday.

• Council has a pension plan in hand Published 05/19/2012 at 4 a.m.

  City Council figured out which changes they want to make to the city employees pension plan, but that does nothing to bridge the massive shortfall in the retirement system.

• Department increases in the city budget: most came from moving jobs and raises Published 05/19/2012 at 4 a.m.

  Outside of a few increases for items such as reducing blight and adding employee raises, there’s not a whole lot of wiggle room in the $180.5 million operating budget proposed by Knoxville Mayor Madeline Rogero.

• Knoxville sign ordinance receives public scrutiny Published 05/16/2012 at 8:20 p.m.

  Restaurateurs and sign companies warned against drastically altering the city's sign ordinance in the first of several public comment sessions for the Knoxville Sign Ordinance Task Force.

• Council approves first vote to add $10 million to the pension shortfall Published 05/15/2012 at 9:04 p.m.

  Knoxville City Council expects a $10 million one-time investment of city reserve funds to help drop ongoing pension expenses as the fund shortfall grows.

• Larry Martin to join Haslam's state employee reform effort Updated 05/14/2012 at 9:08 p.m.

  Gov. Bill Haslam stopped in Knoxville for a Leadership Knoxville luncheon and announced that we was taking one of the city's most well-known businessmen with him back to Nashville.

• Site of club raided by feds in 2008 opens as gay bar Published 05/14/2012 at 4 a.m.

  The Chapman Highway site of a former nightspot once raided by agents of the Drug Enforcement Administration has reopened as a gay bar.

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