By Steve Hunley The Nashville Tennessean has performed a real public service by detailing the hemorrhage of money that has flowed out of Tennessee’s Department of Human Services.  Comptroller Justin Wilson has released information about shocking abuses that not only...

  The Karns Little Free Library was installed last week thanks to a grant from the Junior League of Knoxville, AVID students at Karns, and AVID Coordinator and English teacher Debra Kender Hall of Karns High School. The “take a book, return a book” library is...

By Mike Steely steelym@knoxfocus.com The USS Tennessee floated along Battleship Row, next to the Arizona and the West Virginia, in Pearl Harbor when the Japanese attacked. The ship was struck twice by bombs as its crew fought back. But she stayed afloat. After repairs...

By Sally Absher The main focus of last week’s Board of Education meetings was the approval of a contract for incoming Interim Superintendent, Buzz Thomas, with a proposed salary of $195,000. Thomas will be starting in his role as Interim Superintendent on June 15,...

  By Mike Steely steelym@knoxfocus.com Although the city may adopt a budget that is 4.5% above this year’s figures there’s no property tax increase proposed for next year. One of the bouts of applause during Knoxville Mayor Madeline Rogero’s “State of the City”...

By Mike Steely steelym@knoxfocus.com A flower shop doesn’t have to be huge to be successful and Always in Bloom on Sutherland is a great example. Jenny Austin and Leonard Palladino started the business in 2005 and Austin and her employees were busy last week taking...

By Ray Hill Huey Long was, by almost all accounts, a brilliant lawyer.  To whom did he turn when he needed a good lawyer?  The answer would be John Holmes Overton of Alexandria. John H. Overton was a descendant of the famed John Overton of Tennessee, a contemporary of...