by design | Mar 10, 2013 | Archived Editions, Archives
Click here to view this week’s Focus online. Gibbs uses improbable comeback to make State By Ken Lay Gibbs High School’s boys basketball team found itself in a familiar place early last week. The Eagles were down big in the fourth-quarter of a Section 1-AA...
by design | Mar 10, 2013 | Archives, FOCUS Weekly Poll
Click here to view the full results. By Focus Staff By a large majority, Knox County voters favor term limits for the members of the Knox County Board of Education. This week’s Knoxville Focus poll posed the question: “Most elected offices in Knox County are...
by design | Mar 10, 2013 | Archives
By Tasha Mahurin Tasha@knoxfocus.com South Knoxville businesses were sent reeling after an announcement earlier this year that the reopening Henley Street Bridge would be delayed until February 2014, a full six months past its original estimated completion date. Knox...
by Ray Hill | Mar 10, 2013 | Archives, Columnist, Hill, Ray Hill's Archives
By Ray Hill The South produced a number of successful demagogues, not the least of which was James K. Vardaman, a governor and senator from Mississippi. At the height of his career, Vardaman was unquestionably the most popular politician in Mississippi. James Kimble...
by design | Mar 10, 2013 | Archives
By Steve Williams The theme song of the movie Hoosiers was piped into the gym as homestanding Christian Academy of Knoxville warmed up on one end of the court and top-ranked Grainger High on the other. But instead of looking like an underdog, CAK’s unranked girls...
