By Ken Lay Bob Thomas has served on the Knox County Commission and he’s been a morning radio talk show host and he most recently ran for county mayor. He was defeated in the 2017 by Glenn Jacobs, a professional wrestler and businessman. Thomas didn’t stay out of...
Complaints about recycling center create sparks at council meeting By Bill Howard From the looks of its agenda, it appeared the Knoxville City Council’s July 2 meeting would be a rather ho-hum affair. In fact, it ended – fittingly perhaps on July 4 week – with a bit...
By Steve Hunley Andy Ngo, a gay Asian-American journalist, was evidently badly beaten by members of Antifa in Portland, Oregon recently. As Ngo was beaten, Antifa members continued to chant, “No hate!” Ngo recalled he was videoing the march of Antifa members who had...
By Ken Lay The City of Knoxville hosted a ribbon-cutting Wednesday afternoon to celebrate the renovation of the Performance Lawn at World’s Fair Park. The ceremony was held just one day before the lawn temporarily opened for Knoxville’s annual Festival on the Fourth,...
By Ray Hill Edward Hull Crump, leader of the Shelby County political machine and congressman from Tennessee’s Tenth District, had been a strong and early supporter of New York governor Franklin D. Roosevelt for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1932. Crump was...
By Amy Box Fellhoelter If there is one thing the East Knoxville Community Meeting does well, it’s keeping its members and community well informed of the priorities and initiatives of elected officials those candidates running for city offices. In a series of...
By Steve Williams Like it does about every summer, it came down to Karns versus Maryville. The boys from Blount County came out on top this year, rallying for an 11-9 win over host Karns in a close and exciting District 6 Little League championship game Friday night....
Community policing and the candidates for mayor By Mike Steely steelym@knoxfocus.com One of the topics addressed during the League of Women Voters Mayoral Candidate Forum Tuesday night was community policing. Knoxville is currently planning to relocate the police and...
By Steve Hunley There has been a lot of attention paid to the remarks made by Knox County Sheriff’s deputy Grayson Fritts, as there should have been. Fritts, a pastor, called for gay people to be executed in a sermon to his flock. It is incredible to think any...
By Mike Steely steelym@knoxfocus.com The Dover Corporation is in the process of renovating the former Tennessee State Supreme Court building which sat vacant for about 20 years. The city has already granted a payment-in-lieu-of taxes agreement and last week the...
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