by design | Oct 24, 2017 | The Daily Focus
Climate change represents one of the major challenges of this century. What does this mean for East Tennessee? This presentation, developed in collaboration with the Oak Ridge National Laboratory and the City of Knoxville’s Office of Sustainability, will review the...
by design | Oct 24, 2017 | The Daily Focus
Hunters for the Hungry connects generous hunters in Knox County and across the state with Tennesseans in need Tennessee Wildlife Federation’s Hunters for the Hungry program is open for the season. Participating deer processors throughout the state are now accepting...
by design | Oct 23, 2017 | The Daily Focus
Join us at Marble Springs on Saturday, November 18th from 5:30 p.m. to 8:15 p.m. for our fall nighttime viewing session. This session will be facilitated by Gary Noland, adjunct instructor of Astronomy at the University of Tennessee. Guests will meet at the...
by design | Oct 22, 2017 | Archived Editions, Archives, Stories In This Week's Focus:
Early voting for city council seats underway By Mike Steely steelym@knoxfocus.com Early voting to elect five new Knoxville City Council members began Wednesday and continues until Thursday, November 2. The general election is November 7 and it’s too late to register...
by Steve Hunley | Oct 22, 2017 | Columnist, Hunley, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Steve Hunley Evidently the Knoxville News-Sentinel has taken up the cause of allowing folks to copy public documents with cell phones. According to the Sentinel, this is a fundamental aspect of transparency required for the public good. The Sentinel is commending...
by Ray Hill | Oct 22, 2017 | Columnist, Hill, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Ray Hill Tennessee’s senior United States senator, John Knight Shields, had surprised tens of thousands of his constituents and infuriated many members of his own Democratic Party when he had voted to add reservations to the Treaty of Versailles in the Senate. The...