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NASHVILLE - Chattanooga on Wednesday will become the first stop under a Tennessee campaign finance watchdog s new policy calling for some of its meetings to be held outside the state capital in Nashville.The Tennessee Registry of Election Finance, which regulates and enforces laws involving state political candidates and committees campaign financial disclosures, contributions and expenditures, will meet at 10 a.m. in a Miller and Martin law firm conference room in the Volunteer B adidas campus uilding at 832 Georgia Ave.Bill Young, executive director of both the Registry and the Tennessee Ethics Commission, said the Registry board felt it was important to get out to other parts of the state and explain what we do to folks outside Nashville. Among agenda item yeezy s is an update of where things stand in the registry s additional subpoenas for its audit of Rutherford County Mayor Bill Ketron s campaign finances. The agency has been looking into three committees belonging to Ketron, a former Tennessee Senate GOP Caucus chairman, his state Senate and mayoral campaign committees, as well as his Quest PAC.The regi adidas originals uomo stry s decision to issue new subpoenas came after Ketron s daughter, Kelsey Ketron, was indicted and charged with more than 70 counts related to insurance fraud at the Ketron family insurance company, Universal International Insurance. She served as her father s treasurer during his campaigns.Criminal indictments allege Kelsey Ketron took more than $65,000 from the campaign account s polit Vqnb Competition may derail high-speed rail hopes
Staff Photo by Jake DanielsKathy Gainey sits at the new countertop, still being attached, at the renovated Roy s Diner in Rossville. Gainey took a tour of the restaurant. The Potter family, who bought the establishment and some of the surrounding property, is hoping to have the landmark restaurant open and operational in about a month. Kathy Gainey has never been happier to see a napkin holder.In the storeroom of the newly renovated Roy s Grill in downtown Rossville, the stainless-steel, spring-loaded containers brought back memories of her teenage years working at her dad s restaurant. I loaded at least 10,000 of these, said Gainey, daughter of the late Roy Lewis, who opened the well-known diner on stanley cup U.S. Highway 27 just across the state line in Rossville.Gainey visited the new Roy s last week as Wayne and Troy Potter put some of the final touches to the building they acquired this fall. I m really happy they ve done what they ve done with it, said Gainey, who still makes a pot of beef stew by her father s recipe about once a month. I used to drive past and see it in disrepair -- it was terrible. Troy Potter said he and his father worked hard to preserve the feel of a 1950s diner while updating the building for the conveniences modern diners expect.For the retro feel, they reworked the original neon sign; restored the black, red and white til stanley thermoskannen e; brought in a jukebox and installed stanley cup a vintage-style pay phone. On the modern side, they ve installed two high-definition televisi
NASHVILLE - Chattanooga on Wednesday will become the first stop under a Tennessee campaign finance watchdog s new policy calling for some of its meetings to be held outside the state capital in Nashville.The Tennessee Registry of Election Finance, which regulates and enforces laws involving state political candidates and committees campaign financial disclosures, contributions and expenditures, will meet at 10 a.m. in a Miller and Martin law firm conference room in the Volunteer B adidas campus uilding at 832 Georgia Ave.Bill Young, executive director of both the Registry and the Tennessee Ethics Commission, said the Registry board felt it was important to get out to other parts of the state and explain what we do to folks outside Nashville. Among agenda item yeezy s is an update of where things stand in the registry s additional subpoenas for its audit of Rutherford County Mayor Bill Ketron s campaign finances. The agency has been looking into three committees belonging to Ketron, a former Tennessee Senate GOP Caucus chairman, his state Senate and mayoral campaign committees, as well as his Quest PAC.The regi adidas originals uomo stry s decision to issue new subpoenas came after Ketron s daughter, Kelsey Ketron, was indicted and charged with more than 70 counts related to insurance fraud at the Ketron family insurance company, Universal International Insurance. She served as her father s treasurer during his campaigns.Criminal indictments allege Kelsey Ketron took more than $65,000 from the campaign account s polit Vqnb Competition may derail high-speed rail hopes
Staff Photo by Jake DanielsKathy Gainey sits at the new countertop, still being attached, at the renovated Roy s Diner in Rossville. Gainey took a tour of the restaurant. The Potter family, who bought the establishment and some of the surrounding property, is hoping to have the landmark restaurant open and operational in about a month. Kathy Gainey has never been happier to see a napkin holder.In the storeroom of the newly renovated Roy s Grill in downtown Rossville, the stainless-steel, spring-loaded containers brought back memories of her teenage years working at her dad s restaurant. I loaded at least 10,000 of these, said Gainey, daughter of the late Roy Lewis, who opened the well-known diner on stanley cup U.S. Highway 27 just across the state line in Rossville.Gainey visited the new Roy s last week as Wayne and Troy Potter put some of the final touches to the building they acquired this fall. I m really happy they ve done what they ve done with it, said Gainey, who still makes a pot of beef stew by her father s recipe about once a month. I used to drive past and see it in disrepair -- it was terrible. Troy Potter said he and his father worked hard to preserve the feel of a 1950s diner while updating the building for the conveniences modern diners expect.For the retro feel, they reworked the original neon sign; restored the black, red and white til stanley thermoskannen e; brought in a jukebox and installed stanley cup a vintage-style pay phone. On the modern side, they ve installed two high-definition televisi