by design | Mar 11, 2014 | Knox County, News, The Daily Focus
Suit Claims Use of TVAAS Estimates is Unconstitutional John Michaelson, Tennessee News Service NASHVILLE, Tenn. – The first of what is expected to be many lawsuits over test scores and teachers’ pay in Tennessee has been filed against the Knox County Board...
by design | Mar 11, 2014 | News, The Daily Focus
March is Women’s History Month and I am inspired to write about an amazing jurist, lawyer, lawmaker and American woman, Sandra Day O’Connor. I had the pleasure to meet Justice O’Connor at a reception in Nashville before she addressed the Tennessee Supreme Court...
by design | Mar 9, 2014 | Archived Editions, Archives
Click here to view this week’s Focus. Rountree Kicks Off Campaign For School Board By Focus Staff Amber Rountree kicked off her campaign for the Knox County Board of Education last Tuesday night at the Round Up Restaurant in South Knoxville. The Round Up is...
by design | Mar 9, 2014 | Archives, FOCUS Weekly Poll
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by design | Mar 9, 2014 | Archives
By Mike Steely steelym@knoxfocus.com In the past 30 years, no area in Knox County has grown faster than West Knoxville. Stretching from the UT Campus to the Loudon County line, the area has blossomed with subdivisions, apartments, shopping centers, malls, theaters,...
by Ray Hill | Mar 9, 2014 | Archives, Columnist, Hill, Ray Hill's Archives, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Ray Hill Tennessee’s Estes Kefauver had won more primaries and votes than any other contender for the 1952 Democratic presidential nomination, yet he journeyed to Chicago uncertain of the outcome. One thing was certainly clear: he was bitterly opposed by President...
