by Steve Hunley | Feb 12, 2017 | Columnist, Hunley, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Steve Hunley Both the Knoxville News Sentinel and the Maryville Daily Times have given coverage to some folks castigating Congressman John J. “Jimmy” Duncan for refusing to hold a special town hall meeting – – – just for them. Naturally, after...
by Ray Hill | Feb 12, 2017 | Columnist, Hill, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Ray Hill Cordell Hull had been in Congress since 1907 when he had only narrowly won the Democratic nomination, which inside Tennessee’s Fourth Congressional district was tantamount to election. Hull, only thirty-seven years old at the time, had been nominated by...
by design | Feb 12, 2017 | Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Mike Steely steelym@knoxfocus.com “I think it will sell,” Kim Trent of Knox Heritage told The Focus. The historic Howard House, at 2921 Broadway Avenue, is one of the few remaining homes on the busy commercial street. Built in 1910 by Lynn Hayes the beautiful home...
by design | Feb 12, 2017 | Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Steve Williams Over the past 10 seasons, Webb School’s girls basketball program under Coach Shelley Collier has played in nine state championship games. Five times the Lady Spartans have struck gold. Four times they have brought back silver. Only in 2010 did they...
by design | Feb 12, 2017 | Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Mike Steely steelym@knoxfocus.com The division continued last week between homeowners in the Parkridge neighborhood who want to extend an existing historic designation to the entire community and those who don’t want the label. The H-1 zoning proposal, which will...
by design | Feb 12, 2017 | The Daily Focus
The Tennessee Housing Development Agency (THDA) is offering $15,000 in down payment assistance to homebuyers who purchase a home in targeted neighborhoods that were hard hit by the downturn and have been slower to recover in Knoxville and across the state. THDA...