
Parking Adaptations
Confusing to some, changes to the city’s downtown parking system have altered how people get where they need to go.
New at Compass
- December 30, 2025Every month we run down notable news items from the area’s businesses.
- December 29, 2025A weekly mystery photo to test your knowledge of the local landscape.
- December 24, 2025Lou Gauci, chair of the KMA board, has curated a career of disciplined design and designed a life of contemplative creativity.
- December 23, 2025The passage of years can alter vistas, but it doesn’t diminish the pull of Pappy’s Point in the Urban Wilderness’ Baker Creek Preserve.
- December 22, 2025A weekly mystery photo to test your knowledge of the local landscape.
- December 19, 2025A newly formed nonprofit is already making a difference in providing services to people experiencing homelessness in Knox County.
- December 18, 2025Following the death of Doña Rickels, the Appalachian Equality Chorus hopes to lift heavy hearts with this year’s holiday concerts.
- December 17, 2025UT Dining offers university-raised beef for hamburgers served at the newly opened Cumberland Food Hall and other locations.
- December 16, 2025Amid uncertainty caused by federal policies, UT’s Boyd Center projects slow growth for Tennessee’s economy in the coming years.
- December 15, 2025Every Monday we run down the week’s public meetings and civic events.
Recent Highlights
All free to read and share.- Lou Gauci, chair of the KMA board, has curated a career of disciplined design and designed a life of contemplative creativity.
- All of our city election coverage, now out from behind the paywall.
- Single-issue advocacy committees have formed on both sides of the city’s referendum question on raising the local-option sales tax.
- The city’s place-based violence-reduction strategy relies as much on community relations as it does on enforcing the law.
- After more than a century, the future of the Tennessee Valley Fair is uncertain amid space limitations and the need to adapt to changing circumstances.












