by design | Jun 2, 2019 | Archived Editions, Archives, Stories In This Week's Focus:
Recode meeting long, confrontational By Mike Steely steelym@knoxfocus.com The year of 2019 may well be remembered as the year Knoxville City Council struggled with Recode. A second marathon session on Recode became exhausting and labored as the city council once again...
by Steve Hunley | Jun 2, 2019 | Columnist, Hunley, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Steve Hunley To my mind, one of the things that makes a community worthwhile is having a sense of community. That is something we try to do here at The Focus, as our focus is almost entirely local in scope and nature. The Focus has a reporter at every meeting of...
by Steve Hunley | Jun 2, 2019 | Columnist, Hunley, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Steve Hunley Recode Round 2 was held on Thursday, May 30 and it exceeded the six and a half hours of Recode Round 1 on May 14 with a marathon nine and a half hour comedy where city council tried to fix over fifty errors in Recode. It was another very long session...
by design | Jun 2, 2019 | Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Mike Steely steelym@knoxfocus.com More than 100 descendants of Revolutionary War veteran and Knox County settler Nicholas Gibbs will assemble Saturday at the patriot’s original home on Emory Road. The event, sponsored by the Nicholas Gibbs Historic Society, will...
by Ray Hill | Jun 2, 2019 | Columnist, Hill, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Ray Hill There were several Congressional districts across the country largely populated by immigrants. There were districts in New York City with a heavy Italian population, while similar districts in Illinois and Michigan were inhabited by Polish...
by design | Jun 2, 2019 | Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Steve Williams A stomach virus unfortunately limited Claire Brock’s playing time in the TSSAA Division II-A state girls’ basketball tournament in March, but Claire had shown what she could do on the court throughout the season and particularly in a sectional win...
