by design | Jan 12, 2015 | Public Notice
NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Roy Coil Brooks Sr. Docket Number 75084-2 Notice is hereby given that on the 8th day of January, 2015, letters administration in respect of the Estate of Roy Coil Brooks Sr. who died Mar 5, 2014, were issued the undersigned by the Clerk...
by design | Jan 12, 2015 | Archives, Uncategorized
By Sharon Frankenberg, Attorney at Law As of the writing of this column on January 9, 2015, it is legal in 36 U.S. states and the District of Columbia for same-sex couples to marry. How did we get here? In many conservative states like Tennessee, the state...
by design | Jan 11, 2015 | Archived Editions, Archives
President Obama Visits East Tennessee By Mike Steely steelym@knoxfocus.com The quick visit to Knoxville and Clinton Friday was President Barack Obama’s first visit to Knoxville as Commander in Chief and his proposal of a nation-wide two year college education,...
by Ralphine Major | Jan 11, 2015 | Archives, Columnist, Major
By Ralphine Major It felt like I was stepping back in time as I walked inside. In a way, I was. I had only seen Becky once since our high school days in band. Two and a half years ago, I saw her at the Wrights’ 70th Anniversary (Focus 9-4-12). She had made...
by design | Jan 11, 2015 | Absher, Archives, Columnist
By Sally Absher Cha-ching. That is the sound of the Knox County Schools Board of Education spending more of your tax dollars. At last Monday’s Work Meeting, Dr. McIntyre, in his Superintendent’s Report, laid out his plan to address the substitute teacher shortage....
by Ray Hill | Jan 11, 2015 | Archives, Columnist, Hill, Ray Hill's Archives
By Ray Hill Prentice Cooper had been governor of Tennessee for six years; the first man to be elected to three two-year terms since Austin Peay. Unlike Peay, Cooper lived through his entire tenure of office, but in 1944, he could not run again. Governor Cooper was a...
