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The Question: How do teenagers who just went through the most violent semester ever in the history of their high school, take care of themselves and each other this summer? The Answer: For the dozens of Austin-East students and their adult supporters who converged upon UT Gardens on Wednesday, Love…

Cities United is clear that community-led and community-driven approaches to treating violence will not be an easy, cheap, or comfortable process. And so it begins in Knoxville. — Anti-violence plan unveiled For public safety in the city of Knoxville, particularly for the Knoxville Police Department (KPD), 2020 was the best…hardknoxwire.com For public safety in the city of Knoxville, particularly for the Knoxville Police Department (KPD), 2020 was the best of times in at least one way. It was also the worst of them in another.

Jackie Holloway knows firsthand that art can change behavior, and sometimes lives, for the better. — By Rick Held NEW: Officials hope canvas brings miracles Even before Jackie Holloway produced "Urban Breakthrough" - a mural commemorating a young man gunned down in the Walter…hardknoxwire.com Even before Jackie Holloway produced “Urban Breakthrough” — a mural commemorating a young man gunned down in the Walter P. Taylor public housing project — she knew firsthand that art had the power to change behavior, and sometimes lives, for the better.

On the Love of Wings (Did you see what I did there?!) On the Love of Wings (Did you see what I did there?) A Scruffy City restaurant review I am not sure at what exact point I understood that chicken wings are a primal…hardknoxwire.com A Scruffy City restaurant review I am not sure at what exact point I understood that chicken wings are a primal experience for me. Not primal like “primitive” or “caveman,” although a bit of that (which I’ll get…

After 5 high school students gunned down so far this year, how does East Knoxville handle the home stretch of the most harrowing semester in its history? It was too soon to have a visible police presence at the Austin-East anti-violence parade and student performance on Friday. KPD cars did…

Editors note: This the first story we’ve published by our newest correspondent, Rick Held. Although he’s got a respectable amount of journalism under his belt, he’d never covered a criminal trial before last week, much less a murder case. Well, when Rick proposed this story we jumped at it, partly…

This year, as it turned out, black voters really turned out — more than for any other mayoral election in at least a generation. — By Rick Held Not so long ago, those postcards that landed in East Knoxville mailboxes, just before Knoxville’s mayoral election, could well have helped bring the election over the inner-city finish line for the candidate who mailed them. This time around, for Eddie Mannis, not so much.