by design | May 9, 2021 | Archived Editions, Archives, Stories In This Week's Focus:
Penny Pawn rezoned, Norwood withdrawn and budget discussed at city council By Mike Steely Senior Writer steelym@knoxfocus.com While much of the meeting was interrupted by yells and taunts from a group protesting the killing of an Austin-East student by a city...
by Steve Hunley | May 9, 2021 | Columnist, Hunley, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Steve Hunley City Mayor Indya Kincannon has caved in to the ultimatum of the radical leftists who have demanded school security officers be withdrawn from our school campuses. Kincannon sent a letter to Superintendent Bob Thomas, Knox County Mayor Glenn Jacobs,...
by Ray Hill | May 9, 2021 | Columnist, Hill, Ray Hill's Archives, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Ray Hill Brazilla Carroll Reece had served Tennessee’s First Congressional District in Congress for ten years before losing the 1930 general election to Independent candidate Oscar Byrd Lovette. It was the first time in 52 years any candidate aside from a...
by John Duncan | May 9, 2021 | Columnist, Duncan, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By John J. Duncan Jr. Richard Nixon was probably the most hated man in American politics until Donald Trump was elected president. Yet, like Trump, Nixon was also loved by millions, and the last time he ran for election, in 1972, he won Tennessee overwhelmingly,...
by Jim Ferguson | May 9, 2021 | Columnist, Ferguson, Stories In This Week's Focus:
Nothing connects the country like country. Ken Burns By Dr. Jim Ferguson A reader thanked me for last week’s essay about the Tennessee River and travel. In the essay I used Forrest Gump’s metaphor regarding life as a “box of chocolates.” Well, this week’s essay from...
by design | May 9, 2021 | Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Mike Steely Senior Writer steelym@knoxfocus.com Have you ever seen the proper retirement of a United States flag? Did you know there is an official way to do it? On Saturday, May 15 the American Legion Post and the cadets of the Army JROTC Cherokee Battalion...
