by design | Apr 12, 2021 | The Daily Focus
This Saturday, April 17, Keep Knoxville Beautiful will be hosting its 5th annual South Knoxville Community Cleanup from 9 a.m. – 12 p.m. Cleanups will take place throughout South Knoxville. Leaders from various South Knoxville neighborhoods, businesses,...
by design | Apr 11, 2021 | Archived Editions, Archives, Stories In This Week's Focus:
Tennessee Tutoring Corps to expand this summer The Bill and Crissy Haslam Foundation, in partnership with youth-serving organizations across Tennessee, last week launched the second year of the statewide Tennessee Tutoring Corps program to provide summer learning...
by Steve Hunley | Apr 11, 2021 | Columnist, Hunley, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Steve Hunley Some Time Republican Former Knoxville mayor Victor Ashe has openly called for a primary challenger to oppose County Commissioner Kyle Ward. As I recall, Ward defeated a well-heeled primary challenger in Scott Broyles. In fact, Broyles was the choice of...
by design | Apr 11, 2021 | Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Mike Steely Senior Writer steelym@knoxfocus.com There is a city council election this year and five of the nine members are up for re-election and each incumbent has picked up a campaign petition. March 22 was the first day to pick up a petition and May 20 is the...
by Ray Hill | Apr 11, 2021 | Columnist, Hill, Ray Hill's Archives, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Ray Hill Lyndon Johnson once called Estes Kefauver, “The greatest campaigner of them all.” Kefauver was no silver-tongued orator; in fact, he was oftentimes tongue-tied and frequently mangled names and phrases. Yet Estes Kefauver likely had no peer as a...
by Tom Mattingly | Apr 11, 2021 | Columnist, Mattingly, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Tom Mattingly What is the greatest run in Tennessee football history? Opinions vary. If Hank Lauricella’ s 75-yard run in the first quarter of the 1951 Cotton Bowl game against Texas is No. 1, Johnny Butler’s run against Alabama in 1939 is 1a, and Jay Graham’s...