Remembering Senator Bill Brock By Ray Hill Bill Brock died March 25, 2021 of pneumonia while in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Brock was one of the founders of Tennessee’s modern Republican Party and he had a great deal to do with turning the Volunteer State into a...
By Steve Hunley We Need To Get This Right Local media has been consumed by the story of the shooting of Austin-East student Anthony Thompson. Some readers will remember when Knoxville Mayor Indya Kincannon called a hasty press conference in a city park in twenty...
By Mike Steely Senior Writer steelym@knoxfocus.com The zoning request for higher density along Merchant Drive was changed by the Knoxville City Council Tuesday at the request of Norwood community homeowners. Hilton Capital Group, represented by Benjamin C....
By Ray Hill By 1930, Carroll Reece, congressman from Tennessee’s First Congressional District, had served for a decade in the House of Representatives. Reece had defeated an incumbent who had also served for ten years in Congress to win the Republican nomination in...
Grace Christian Academy senior Hannah Cooper gives the softball a ride during a game this year. Photo by Mark Cooper. By Steve Williams Who are the top teams on the local high school softball scene this season? Right now that answer would have to be Farragut....
By Steve Williams Berean Christian has won its first tennis match in school history. The Lady Eagles defeated Samuel Everett School of Innovation 4-3 at John Sevier Park in Maryville on April 22. Breanna Edington, Raygan Robertson and Maddie Dyer won their singles...
Large turnout at Fountain City B&P’s new meeting venue By Mike Steely Senior Writer steelym@knoxfocus.com “We had a great meeting and great turnout!” said Jeff Bagwell, president of the Fountain City Business and Professional Association. Bagwell told The Focus...
By Steve Hunley Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib, perhaps the most outspoken anti-Semite in Congress and erstwhile member of the Democrat “Squad”, has issued a new jeremiad calling for “no more” policing. Tlaib declared policing in the United States is “inherently and...
By Mike Steely Senior Writer steelym@knoxfocus.com Former Knox County Commission Chairman Hugh Nystrom served one term and chose not to seek re-election. The friendly fellow is very active in the community and his family and has an interesting history. The Knoxville...
By Ray Hill Few readers likely recall how very close the 1960 presidential election between John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon truly was. Kennedy won by a margin of 0.17 percent of the vote, some 112,827 votes. As Kennedy prepared to take over from President...
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