by design | Aug 29, 2021 | Archived Editions, Archives, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Mike Steely Senior Writer steelym@knoxfocus.com “Over 2,200 more people voted early in-person in 2021 than in 2017, with New Harvest Park being the site with the most voters,” Chris Davis, Knox County Election Coordinator, told The Focus Friday. Davis attributed...
by design | Aug 29, 2021 | Columnist, Hunley, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Steve Hunley The City of Knoxville elections are pathetic. Despite the thousands of dollars in spending a fraction of the eligible voters are coming out to vote. As of this writing, over 6,000 people have voted early and by absentee ballot. My goodness, there...
by design | Aug 29, 2021 | Columnist, Stories In This Week's Focus:, Williams
By Steve Williams Frank “Boomer” Boring took a peek into the future 50 years ago and what he foresaw is scheduled to come to fruition this Friday night. Boring was entering his 16th season as head coach of Central High’s football team when the Bobcats moved into their...
by design | Aug 29, 2021 | Archives, Columnist, Hill, Ray Hill's Archives, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Ray Hill The story of Grace Moore is not at all political in nature and hopefully readers of this column will not be sorely disappointed. Miss Moore’s story is, however uniquely and quintessentially American. It is both an interesting story and certainly part of...
by design | Aug 29, 2021 | Columnist, Duncan, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By John J. Duncan Jr. I have never seen, heard or read about a president who has done as much damage to this country in as short a time as Joe Biden has. Brit Hume summed it up best a few months ago when he said on Fox News that Joe Biden had a reputation as a...