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The Knoxville Focus for January 8, 2018

by design | Jan 7, 2018 | Archived Editions, Stories In This Week's Focus:

Scholars’ Bowl begins tonight on PBS By Mike Steely steelym@knoxfocus.com What happens when you have top students from area high schools competing to see who knows the most Literature, Science, Art, Math, Geography, Government, Music, Sports and History trivia? See...

Bias Against Trump Is Real

by Steve Hunley | Jan 7, 2018 | Columnist, Hunley, Stories In This Week's Focus:

By Steve Hunley   The basic sense of fair play has to be chaffing a great many Americans, as it is more and more obvious the mainstream media is simply not going to give President Donald Trump anything even resembling fair treatment.  Former President Jimmy...

Willa Blake Eslick: The First Woman Ever Elected To Congress From Tennessee

by Ray Hill | Jan 7, 2018 | Columnist, Hill, Stories In This Week's Focus:

By Ray Hill   Willa Blake Eslick was the first woman ever to be elected to Congress from the State of Tennessee.  Mrs. Eslick served only an abbreviated term in the U. S. House of Representatives and was elected following the death of her husband, Congressman...

Freezing weather draws homeless to KARM

by design | Jan 7, 2018 | Stories In This Week's Focus:

  By Mike Steely steelym@knoxfocus.com Last week’s below freezing weather played havoc with the homeless in Knoxville and strained the resources of the Knoxville Area Rescue Mission. The Broadway KARM center reported that about 360 people sought overnight shelter...

Lane, UT signee, carries on family tradition of ‘gentle giants’

by design | Jan 7, 2018 | Stories In This Week's Focus:

  By Steve Williams High school football signings are a festive occasion, filled with cheers and tears plus memories and expectations. Ollie Lane’s signing with the University of Tennessee was that kind of day in December. Family and friends were there for the...

Bearden is 19-1 and the future may be even brighter

by design | Jan 7, 2018 | Stories In This Week's Focus:

  By Steve Williams Bearden High’s boys basketball team is 19-1 overall and 7-0 in District 4-AAA yet has played only two games on its home court all season. What’s also really scary good about the Bulldogs is the fact they have only one senior on their 12-man...
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