Comments on: Knox Charter Petition receives backing from Knox County hopeful http://knoxify.com/knox-charter-petition-receives-backing-from-knox-county-hopeful/ Sun, 07 Sep 2008 17:12:33 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: Gfox http://knoxify.com/knox-charter-petition-receives-backing-from-knox-county-hopeful/#comment-1519 Gfox Mon, 23 Jun 2008 14:21:59 +0000 http://knoxify.com/knox-charter-petition-receives-backing-from-knox-county-hopeful/#comment-1519 Seems to me all this talk of "reform" in our woeful county's government ought to be yet another opportunity to discuss (again) chucking the whole shebang and reforming as a unified city-county like Memphis and Nashville and Louisville and Lexington, KY. When a "county" develops so densly that its infrastructure is very lacking (one lane rail road underpasses, one lane bridges and narrow roads with subdivisons on them), you no longer have a "county" you have a poorly run city. Which is what we have. Seems to me all this talk of “reform” in our woeful county’s government ought to be yet another opportunity to discuss (again) chucking the whole shebang and reforming as a unified city-county like Memphis and Nashville and Louisville and Lexington, KY. When a “county” develops so densly that its infrastructure is very lacking (one lane rail road underpasses, one lane bridges and narrow roads with subdivisons on them), you no longer have a “county” you have a poorly run city. Which is what we have.

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