Advisory Council seeks members By Mike Steely steelym@knoxfocus.com The Neighborhood Advisory Council is looking for five new members. The council is appointed by Knoxville Mayor Madeline Rogero and serves as her consultation group on issues facing all of Knoxville’s...
By Steve Hunley There is no plainer way to put it; quite simply hazing should be illegal. A recent reminder was the filing of a lawsuit by a former Florida State University student who claims he sustained a brain injury while being forced to participate in a hazing...
By Pete Gawda For the second straight month yellow shirted members of Northshore Corridor, which represents several home owners associations, packed the main assembly room at the City County Building to protest the proposed Post Oak Bend subdivision. Last month the...
By Ray Hill “Live so that when you die, even the undertaker will be sorry.” Sign that hung in the business office of Jim Cummings. James H. Cummings is likely a name unfamiliar to most readers, but during his time he was a power and a man to be reckoned with. When he...
Longtime coaches combine for 76 years By Steve Williams Jeanne Fair and Sharon Brown have coached everything but football at Tennessee School for the Deaf. And after a combined 76 years, the two are still at it and having fun. Fair is in her 44th year coaching at TSD....
By Steve Williams Hurricane Florence had an effect on high school football in Knoxville last week. Tennessee School for the Deaf’s home football opener scheduled for Thursday night was postponed when South Carolina School for Deaf closed early last week because of the...
Pension Board ruling may go on to Nov. 12 By Mike Steely steelym@knoxfocus.com A multi-hour hearing before Chancery Judge John W. Weaver Friday morning saw arguments on both sides with the judge asking if the pension board will agree to have a hearing on one of...
By Steve Hunley Nobody can be surprised the hearing for Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh is a lurid circus, highlighted by hysterical people attempting to disrupt the proceedings. Photographs of protesters being dragged out of the Senate Judiciary Committee’s...
By Mike Steely steelym@knoxfocus.com On the heels of the city’s announcement that it is looking at the Tennova/St. Mary’s Hospital for relocating the police and fire departments (see story on A4), the city council is being asked to approve an agreement with the...
By Ray Hill After Congressman J. Will Taylor died suddenly on November 14, 1939, there was not unexpectedly, a fight inside the Republican Party to succeed him. The nominee was to be named in a convention by the counties comprising Tennessee’s Second Congressional...
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