by design | Mar 11, 2014 | News, The Daily Focus
March is Women’s History Month and I am inspired to write about an amazing jurist, lawyer, lawmaker and American woman, Sandra Day O’Connor. I had the pleasure to meet Justice O’Connor at a reception in Nashville before she addressed the Tennessee Supreme Court...
by design | Mar 9, 2014 | Knoxville, The Daily Focus
Emerald Charter Schools will host public meetings on March 11 and March 25 about its proposed public charter school, Emerald Academy. The meetings are open, but some require advance registration. The first group of meetings, on Tuesday, March 11, will be in...
by design | Mar 8, 2014 | Dan Andrews, The Daily Focus
With the threat of an election behind him, it appears Mayor Burchett is continuing to focus on new ideas, new strategies, and new creative innovating thinking to help grow business in Knox County. In what is the latest idea to come out of the Mayor’s office is...
by design | Mar 7, 2014 | Knoxville, The Daily Focus
On Thursday, March 6, Mayor Rogero spent time with the Knoxville Chapter 61 of the National Association of Women In Construction. Knoxville Chapter 61 has distinguished itself for over 45 years as the voice of women in construction in Knoxville and has...
by design | Mar 7, 2014 | Knoxville, The Daily Focus
If you’re downtown Saturday, don’t be surprised to see a lot of large public art being installed – most notably an 18-foot-tall painted steel sculpture by Rochester, N.Y.’s Albert Paley. The intellectually-stimulating and aesthetically-pleasing additions...
by design | Mar 7, 2014 | Dan Andrews, The Daily Focus
While this plan is in the very early stages, Mayor Tim Burchett’s office is actively studying a plan to use social media to directly help small businesses. The wildly popular Mayor with over 7,000 followers on Twitter is looking to harness his social media reach...
