Pam Strickland writes a weekly column for the News Sentinel. She also writes a blog entitled Strickly Impolitical for knoxnews.com.
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Pam Strickland: Respect for elections led to complaint
Published 8/17/2012 at 3:00 a.m. 35 comments
Among others, my mama (that's what I called my grandmother), the late Julia Nell Youngblood Strickland of Harriman, and state Sen. Ken Yager, R-Harriman, who was my ninth-grade civics teacher, taught me that the election process that we practice in ...
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Pam Strickland: Forrester should resign after Clayton debacle
Published 8/10/2012 at 3:00 a.m. 24 comments
Chip Forrester should be ashamed. When the state Democratic Party chairman hoodwinked the Executive Committee into re-electing him after the bloodbath that the party took in state legislative races in 2010, he promised to do better, but what he has ...
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Pam Strickland: Protesters point out ugly truth about Y-12
Published 8/3/2012 at 3:00 a.m. 150 comments
Growing up in Roane County, I was told that one of the respectable jobs was working at the plants in Oak Ridge, never mind what they were doing there.
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Pam Strickland: More mental health funding needed
Published 7/27/2012 at 3:00 a.m. 77 comments
Four years ago today it was a Sunday morning, and the post-service Lunch Bunch at my North Knoxville church was in full force as word came, at first via cellphone messages and then through an announcement by the clergy, that ...
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Pam Strickland: GOP shenanigans demand response
Published 7/20/2012 at 3:00 a.m. 26 comments
Appalled. Aggrieved. Astounded. It seemed that every word that described my reaction to the latest shenanigans of the extremists in the state Republican Party started with an A. Yet it wasn't because these folks deserved an A+, unless it was ...
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Pam Strickland: KTSC makeover doesn't turn heads
Published 7/13/2012 at 3:00 a.m. 7 comments
Knoxville Tourism and Sports Corp. is no more.
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Pam Strickland: State should accept Medicaid expansion
Published 7/6/2012 at 4:00 a.m. 175 comments
By coincidence on June 28, the day the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the Affordable Care Act, I had a long-awaited appointment with a specialist for my bum knee. I hobbled into the office, conferred with the nurse practitioner and got ...
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Pam Strickland: Hurley is an embarrassment to her constituents
Published 6/29/2012 at 4:00 a.m. 26 comments
State Rep. Julia Hurley, R-Lenoir City, has been making the national news again this week. And as it was when she first filed for office in 2010, her attention-getting efforts haven't been because she is a delightful lawmaker, doing good ...
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Pam Strickland: Health care reform law would help the uninsured
Published 6/22/2012 at 4:00 a.m. 61 comments
Earlier this month more than 600 of my fellow uninsured Tennesseans waited overnight to get medical care at Sewanee: The University of the South from Remote Area Medical's 667th free health care clinic.
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Pam Strickland: Evaluations needed but so are changes
Published 6/15/2012 at 4:00 a.m. 9 comments
Seven convoluted recommendations for change came out of the study of the new teacher evaluation system conducted by State Collaborative on Reforming Education, the think tank known as SCORE that Gov. Bill Haslam asked to provide feedback on the evaluations ...
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Pam Strickland: Slide rules won't reign in digital world
Published 6/8/2012 at 4:00 a.m. 23 comments
On Monday, after spending two hours listening to citizens comment on the pros and cons of a proposed $35 million budget increase request from Knox County Schools, Knox County Commissioner Mike Brown said the county hadn't been so divided on ...
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Pam Strickland: Transferred Lenoir City teacher did his job
Published 6/1/2012 at 4:00 a.m. 60 comments
Lenoir City High School teacher James Yoakley was transferred to Lenoir City Middle School last week, a move that removed him from his educationally sound performance in his six years as yearbook and newspaper advisor to high school students.
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Pam Strickland: School funding battle hits social media
Published 5/25/2012 at 4:00 a.m. 15 comments
If the social media are any indication, Knox County commissioners are being heavily lobbied this week regarding their upcoming vote on the Knox County School Board's 2012-13 budget.
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Pam Strickland: Women in Black group celebrates 10 years of urging peace
Published 5/18/2012 at 4:00 a.m. 13 comments
For Renee Jubran, Easter 2002 was very hard. A Palestinian Christian living in Knoxville, Jubran decided that she couldn't wear bright spring colors when she was so saddened for her homeland, where the Israeli Defense Forces had reoccupied several cities ...
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Pam Strickland: Homeless data must translate into action
Published 5/11/2012 at 4:00 a.m. 21 comments
Each month in 2011, an average of 1,595 people accessed services for the homeless in Knoxville. For the year, the total number of individuals using services was 7,320 — a 3 percent increase over 2010.
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