by design | Sep 6, 2021 | Stories In This Week's Focus:
Commission reorganizes, eyes redistricting By Mike Steely Senior Writer steelym@knoxfocus.com A special session of the Knox County Commission Wednesday saw Richie Beeler being chosen chairman and Justin Biggs selected as vice chairman. Beeler, the District 8...
by design | Sep 6, 2021 | Columnist, Hunley, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Steve Hunley School Board Follies Last week, the Knox County Board of Education had some 60 people sign up to speak. What do you suppose had folks all stirred up? Test scores? Curriculum? None of the above. It was, yet again, masks. It seems like nothing has...
by design | Sep 6, 2021 | Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Steve Williams Lee Beeler scored the first touchdown on Central High’s new football field in 1971. “It’s a record that never will be broken … my claim to fame,” said Lee recently in a light-hearted manner as he reflected on that historic opening game and team of 50...
by design | Sep 6, 2021 | Columnist, Hill, Ray Hill's Archives, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Ray Hill Most figures in history are ephemeral and float through the pages of books only fleetingly. Some never even make the footnotes of history, yet probably should. There are any number of historical figures which were larger than life, the subject of...
by design | Sep 6, 2021 | Columnist, Duncan, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By John J. Duncan Jr. After I took the Bar Exam in July of 1973, I spent almost all my time at the Knox County Courthouse watching jury trials. I had watched several trials in my Uncle Joe’s court in earlier years while I was in undergraduate school at UT and...
by design | Sep 6, 2021 | Columnist, Ferguson, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Dr. Jim Ferguson There is a tide in the affairs of men, which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune; omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and miseries. — Brutus from William Shakespeare’s play “Julius Caesar” In 42 BC,...
