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The Accountability File: Ethics Questions Investigations and What the Record Actually Establishes
Ethics stories are easy to overstate.
 • The Redemption Project, Newsroom TRP, and Brandon Burley
Nearly Two Years After Hurricane Helene, Nancy Tucker Is Coming Home
The 76-year-old Washington County woman was Tennessee’s final missing victim from the storm.
 • The Redemption Project and Brandon Burley
Farragut Changed Its Emergency Reporting System After a Sewer Spill Killed Thousands of Fish
Residents began reporting problems along North Fork Turkey Creek on a Friday.
 • The Redemption Project, Newsroom TRP, and Brandon Burley
KPD Says 190 Actionable Child-Exploitation Tips Are Waiting for Assignment. The Oldest Dates to October.
Tennessee auditors warned two years ago that child-exploitation investigators were being overwhelmed.
 • The Redemption Project, Newsroom TRP, and Brandon Burley
What If Spiritual Transformation Is Supposed to Be Slow?
Dwelling in Christ challenges the quick-fix version of Christianity and asks what it actually takes to become more like Christ
 • The Redemption Project and Brandon Burley
Bail Reform Explained: Ken Good on Cashless Bail, Ankle Monitors, Risk Assessments and Public Safety
Bail is one of those words people hear all the time but often misunderstand.
 • The Redemption Project, Newsroom TRP, and Brandon Burley
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The Tax-Write-Off Myth Is Wrong. So Why Do Companies Ask You to Round Up?
Checkout charity raises hundreds of millions of dollars. The more revealing story is what customers, retailers, nonprofits and intermediaries each get…
 • The Redemption Project, Newsroom TRP, and Brandon Burley
Garrett Holt’s First 100 Days Will Focus on Learning, Infrastructure and Public Health
The new Knox County commissioner is setting few short-term outcome promises.
 • The Redemption Project, Newsroom TRP, and Brandon Burley
UT Knoxville Set a 70% Graduation Goal for 2030. It Just Reached 71.4%.
UT’s four-year graduation rate has climbed from 53.8% in 2019 to a record 71.4%.
 • The Redemption Project
Knox County Approved a Housing Tax Break Its Own Resolution Said Did Not Meet Existing Criteria. The New Mayor Vetoed It.
The proposed South Knox County development would receive a 50% county property-tax abatement for 20 years.
 • The Redemption Project, Newsroom TRP, and Brandon Burley
Redemption Story: Robert Downey Jr. Was Written Off—Then He Became Iron Man
From Inmate to Iron Man—Robert Downey Jr.’s Unbelievable Redemption Story
 • The Redemption Project
Redemption Story: Brandon Novak
Brandon Novak had it all-fame, money, and a spot on Jackass . . .
 • The Redemption Project
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