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Is the sale of the AJ Building good for taxpayers?

by Steve Hunley | Sep 30, 2019 | Columnist, Hunley, The Daily Focus

By Steve Hunley, Publisher publisher@knoxfocus.com WVLT Channel 8 television in Knoxville reported on October 4th 2017, “Getting the Andrew Johnson Building back on the tax rolls has been a priority for me since I took office as Knox County Mayor,” said...

Legal and public notices for the week of September 30, 2019

by design | Sep 30, 2019 | Public Notice

COURT NOTICES   Non-resident Notice   TO: BUFORD C. HARVEY & KIMBERLY J. HARVEY; IN RE: SUNTRUST BANK v. BUFORD C. HARVEY 198450-2 IN THE CHANCERY COURT FOR KNOX COUNTY, TENNESSEE In this Cause appearing from the Complaint filed, which is sworn to, that...

The Knoxville Focus for September 30, 2019

by design | Sep 29, 2019 | Archived Editions, Archives, Stories In This Week's Focus:

Knox County’s ‘Safe Babies Court’ Is Working By Focus Staff Few people pay much attention to the court system until or unless they have a legal problem. Folks are too busy from day to day to give much thought to such things, nor do people much care about the variety...

Will Your Neighborhood Be Next?

by Steve Hunley | Sep 29, 2019 | Columnist, Hunley, Stories In This Week's Focus:

By Steve Hunley Folks in the Parkridge community are upset their community isn’t being treated fairly. What Parkridge residents are angry about is the use of land right next to Caswell Park as the site for a three-story apartment complex for the homeless. The City of...

Many questions remain about relocating the school offices

by design | Sep 29, 2019 | Stories In This Week's Focus:

By Mike Steely steelym@knoxfocus.com Why are the county mayor and some members of commission rushing the approval of a lease of the TVA East Tower for the Knox County School system? What’s the actual value of the Andrew Johnson Building, where the school system is...

Tennessee’s Hermitage District, I

by Ray Hill | Sep 29, 2019 | Columnist, Hill, Ray Hill's Archives, Stories In This Week's Focus:

By Ray Hill Joseph Wellington Byrns was almost surely the most popular political figure inside Tennessee’s “Hermitage District.”  That was the Congressional district in Tennessee which encompassed Nashville and the “Hermitage”, home of General Andrew Jackson.  For...
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