Mayor-elect Madeline Rogero today announced the appointment of two top deputies to the mayor in her administration, citing their excellent backgrounds to help carry out the city's initiatives.

Eddie Mannis, owner of Prestige Cleaners, will serve as chief operating officer/deputy to the mayor, and Bill Lyons, current senior director of policy and communications for the city, will become chief policy officer/deputy to the mayor.

"I am grateful that these two very capable individuals have agreed to serve in leading roles for our new administration," Rogero said.

By Betty Bean

Two days after her landslide victory in a non-partisan city race, Madeline Rogero revisited her roots and gave her first speech as mayor-elect. She served notice of her intention to govern from the middle.

“You can’t move forward from a far left position or from a far right position,” Rogero told the newly reconstituted Downtown Democrats, a once-active club that has been moribund for the past several years. “You’ve got to find that sweet spot.”

By Betty Bean

Rogero’s election a milestone for DeSelm

About the time that Mark Padgett called Madeline Rogero to concede the election, Bee DeSelm was rolling her walker up the ramp into the Foundry to join the victory celebration.

By News Sentinel Editorial Board

Madeline Rogero won an overwhelming victory Tuesday and will become Knoxville's first female mayor when she takes the oath of office in January.

By defeating businessman Mark Padgett by 18 percentage points, the former Knox County commissioner and director of the city's community development department can claim a mandate from the voters.

by Jim Balloch, Lance Coleman, Mike Donila

Knoxville voters on Tuesday swept Madeline Rogero into the mayor's office — and a very special place in the city's history.

Rogero, 58, becomes the first woman ever elected mayor.

by Editorial Staff

Election Day in the city of Knoxville general election is Tuesday, and voter turnout appears headed for another ignominious low.

Early voting totals are slightly up over September's primary, but that's not exactly a herculean feat — only 16.5 percent of eligible voters cast ballots six weeks ago.

But one lesson the primary taught is that every vote matters. If Madeline Rogero had received one additional vote in each city precinct, she would have cleared the bar to have avoided a runoff with room to spare.

Metro Pulse endorsed Madeline Rogero for mayor before the Sept. 27 primary, and we are happy to do so again for the Nov. 8 general election. If anything, the increasingly ridiculous attacks by her opponent, Mark Padgett, have made us even more certain that she is by far the better candidate in the race. But rather than merely rerun our previous endorsement, we thought it might be helpful to visually compare the two candidates’ records and experience.