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Getting Real with Knoxville Insurance

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You may be surprised to see that the author of this entry is me, Casey. With Brandon being the local insurance mogul he would seemingly be a better fit to tackle this one.
Not the case.
Brandon approached me several months ago about launching an insurance-centric blog for his company, John Bailey Co. Gut reaction: BORING!
However, once I connected […]

Before the I-40 Downtown bottleneck gets better, it’s only going to get worse. TDOT has outlined the entire project on their site and are even providing high-tech web cameras to publicize the progress.
To help better answer the question, “what the heck is going on with I-40”, Don Jacobs of the News Sentinel has launched his […]

All Headlines; All Knoxville

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Would anyone be offended if I tossed out a shameless plug? *crickets* I’ll continue on then.
This weekend a Knoxville-centric website launched called Knox’d. This site lets you see the latest headlines from the best media outlets in Knoxville. For free of course.
Patrick Beeson puts it best:
Knox’d has one goal: to aggregate the latest news and information (including jobs, […]

Beginning today, the Young Professionals of Knoxville (YPK) will accept nominations for new members.
Brandon and I co-founded YPK in 2006 and the group now boasts over 80 dynamic members who were all hand selected by Knoxville’s top business leaders. With the nomination process we hope to continue our run of attracting top-shelf young professionals from […]

The public has spoken and decided that structure in Knox County government matters. Today, a letter was published in the News Sentinel signed by a Steering Committee to Knox County Commission with separate charter amendments attached asking them to place the amendments on the ballot and informing them that they are starting the process to […]

Yesterday, the News Sentinel released the Top 10 local stories for 2007. The lineup came courtesy of an on-line poll from KnoxNews.com (I voted, did you?). Although many of the top 10 were good stories, here is my Knoxified 10 best.

Christian-Newsom killings: I’m still baffled as to how this didn’t make national headlines. Hate crime anyone?
Sunshine and […]

What is Knoxify?

Knoxify is a blog camp dedicated to the good things in life. In a nutshell, we’re trying to better your life, our life and our communities. It just so happens we do this from our home base in Knoxville.


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"...I was shocked and appalled to see that a grove of trees, including a 100-plus year-old Ginkgo tree, have been ripped limb by limb from our honored and revered Hill at the expense of UT’s new Electrical Engineering building."

"In NASCAR, they call that door-banging racin'. And it is. See how the battle goes in your market."

"36.2 Million women participate in the blogosphere weekly"

"...downtown’s newfound popularity also means that there are more people for the panhandlers to target."

Suzy Trotta has the rundown on Knoxville homes hovering around the 7-figure mark.

Emergency LunchBox by Bob McClusky. According to the wigshop, it's a keeper.

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