Publisher’s Positions By Steve Hunley Kincannon... the Tax and Spend Mayor At the corner of Gay Street and Summit Hill Drive downtown is the Cradle of Country Music Park, which is a peaceful half-acre plot of land with five trees that have been here for...
Vikings finally taste victory again, 44-36 By Steve Williams Tennessee School for the Deaf hadn’t won a football game since the coronavirus pandemic hit the Knoxville area in March of 2020. But after trailing South Carolina School for the Deaf most of the way last...
The Fall of Congressman Clifford Davis, V By Ray Hill Cliff Davis was sixty-six years old as he faced voters in the Democratic primary in August of 1964. For forty years, Cliff Davis had been a political favorite of the people of Shelby County, but his popularity was...
FBA boys golf team is coming on strong By Steve Williams First Baptist Academy is in the midst of its best boys golf season ever. A little over a month into the season, the Eagles have had some head-turning performances despite being a young team with only two...
Shouse given retirement send-off By Mike Steely Senior Writer steelym@knoxfocus.com Dozens of well-wishers and past and present city and county officials assembled in the small assembly room of the City-County Building last Monday to honor Ed Shouse. Shouse, who is...
Senator Hagerty Hosts Coffee By Focus Staff Bill Hagerty, Tennessee’s junior United States senator, has been traveling the state during the recent congressional recess. Hagerty is listening and talking about economics with Tennesseans of all walks of life as he moves...
By Steve Hunley Daniel Herrera and his merry band of political allies are planning and plotting. Not well, mind you, but nonetheless, they are planning and plotting. Herrera’s latest escapade is trying to create a job for his compadre Erik Wiatr. The local...
Only 30 teams remain at John Tarleton Park By Steve Williams A major change has been made in local youth football this season. The new Youth Athletic Conference (YAC) has been organized for 7U through 10U age groups and will include the following 12 programs: Bearden,...
By Ray Hill Clifford Davis had represented Shelby County in the U.S. House of Representatives for twenty-four years when he announced he was running for his fourteenth term in 1964. Davis had been the Democratic nominee in a 1940 special election and had won again in...
By Ken Lay Every high school sports team and every coach always faces tough road games during a season. That’s just a part of a grueling challenge that is a sports campaign. But the Gibbs High School girls soccer team will not play a true home game in 2022 as...
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