by Ray Hill | Aug 21, 2016 | Columnist, Hill, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Ray Hill The 1948 election in Tennessee was a watershed political event. For two decades, the political partnership of senior United States senator Kenneth D. McKellar and Edward Hull Crump, leader of the Shelby County machine, had dominated Volunteer State...
by design | Aug 21, 2016 | Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Mike Steely steelym@knoxfocus.com When District Attorney General Charme Allen took office in September of 2014 she said the office had no one designed to deal with elder abuse and she recognized that the growing number of cases involving senior citizens needed some...
by Steve Williams | Aug 21, 2016 | Columnist, Stories In This Week's Focus:, Williams
By Steve Williams Many years ago, when youth soccer started growing in popularity in this country, I wondered if soccer might someday replace football as the game played at Neyland Stadium and venues of other major universities. In what I saw as a softer America, many...
by design | Aug 21, 2016 | Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Steve Williams If the rest of this season is anything like the start, Seymour High football fans may be calling the Eagles’ No. 5 Austin Bruiser on Friday nights. Seymour’s public address announcer, Charlie Householder, was so impressed by Austin Brewster’s first...
by design | Aug 21, 2016 | The Daily Focus
On Tuesday, August 23, staff from the Metropolitan Planning Commission (MPC) will be at Northshore Elementary School from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. to discuss, receive comments on, and answer questions regarding the updates to the Southwest County Sector Plan. Staff is...
by design | Aug 21, 2016 | The Daily Focus
In its fourth year, the Knoxville Film Festival, produced by award-winning filmmaker Keith McDaniel, in partnership with Dogwood Arts, the Visit Knoxville Film Office and Regal Entertainment Group, will include more than 40 hours of film screenings at Regal Downtown...
