by design | Sep 8, 2013 | Dan Andrews, The Daily Focus
Attending city council meetings as a reporter is normally a mundane but a necessary task. However, during the last two city council meetings something special and amazing has occurred. Normal everyday citizens have stepped up to the podium during public forum and...
by design | Sep 8, 2013 | Archived Editions, Archives
Click here to view this week’s Focus. Waggoner Considers Bid for Sheriff By Focus Staff The Knoxville Focus has confirmed Robert “Bobby” Waggoner is officially exploring a campaign for Knox County Sheriff. Waggoner, freshly retired as Chief of Detectives in the...
by design | Sep 8, 2013 | Archives, FOCUS Weekly Poll
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by Steve Hunley | Sep 8, 2013 | Archives, Hunley
By Steve Hunley In his recent report to the Knox County Board of Education, Superintendent James McIntyre has raised the issue of having students evaluate teachers. Evidently the state has some new idea about allowing students to evaluate teachers and is dangling...
by Ray Hill | Sep 8, 2013 | Archives, Columnist, Hill, Ray Hill's Archives
By Ray Hill President Franklin Delano Roosevelt came to Tennessee several times during his presidency. It gave local politicians the opportunity to bask in the glow of Roosevelt’s magnetic presence and the people of Tennessee to actually see the jaunty tilt of FDR’s...