by design | Jul 17, 2022 | Columnist, Hunley, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Steve Hunley Desperate Davis Habitual candidate Elaine Davis has been a Democrat and a Republican. Davis was appointed to the Knox County Commission as a Democrat in 2006. That same year she ran as a Democrat for the county commission and lost. In 2008 she ran...
by design | Jul 17, 2022 | Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Steve Williams De’Sean Bishop is not just good in football. He’s good at keeping a secret. Minutes before announcing his commitment Thursday, his mother didn’t know which college the Karns High running back had picked. “He wouldn’t even tell me,” said Sherika Huff,...
by design | Jul 17, 2022 | Columnist, Hill, Ray Hill's Archives, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Ray Hill For the first time in decades, Republicans in Tennessee were seriously contesting the race for the United States Senate in 1948. In fact, Republicans had fielded a compelling statewide ticket composed of former congressman Carroll Reece for the Senate and...
by design | Jul 17, 2022 | Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Steve Williams It was long overdue, but Hoyt Carroll had the credentials to stand the test of time. Carroll, who passed away at the age of 77 in 2001, will be inducted posthumously into the Greater Knoxville Sports Hall of Fame as part of the Class of 2022 on Aug....
by design | Jul 17, 2022 | Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Ken Lay The sounds of 1990s country music blared from the stage as Gone Country covered the songs of Dwight Yoakam, the Kentucky Headhunters, Brooks and Dunn and the songs of other neo-traditional music from the era as a local politician threw a party to...
by design | Jul 17, 2022 | The Daily Focus
Volunteer Tennessee will hold its quarterly business meeting on Friday, July 22, 2022, from 9:30 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. CDT in Nashville with a virtual option. The agenda for the meeting will include committee work, work on drafting Volunteer Tennessee’s 2023-25 State...
