By Steve Hunley Carpetbagger: a politician who takes up residence in a place and runs for office without having strong ties to the area. Any opportunistic or exploitative outsider. Representative Dave Wright has shepherded a bill through the Tennessee House of...
By Steve Williams Bearden battled its way to the finals of the BlueCross Basketball State Championships and even overcame a 15-point deficit in the fourth quarter of the title game, but ran out of firepower in a four-minute overtime period. Tradition-rich Kingsport...
Many of our fellow Tennesseans are positively football crazy; most of us remember University of Tennessee quarterback Heath Shuler was elected to Congress from North Carolina. Yet there is hardly any person in the State of Tennessee with better name recognition than...
By Steve Williams Denaj Kimber’s shot from the left wing in the closing seconds was just short and so was Fulton’s attempt Friday to advance to the TSSAA Class 3A title game. Jackson South Side finished on the winning side of a 51-50 score in the semifinal game at...
By Steve Williams Prior to post-season tournament play, Farragut High girls basketball coach Jason Mayfield talked about the obstacles Avery “Ace” Strickland, his senior standout, had been facing and overcoming on the court. “Ace is the focal point of everyone’s...
Bud Armstrong takes his campaign home to Corryton By Ken Lay Richard “Bud” Armstrong is seeking to become Chancellor Part II on Knox County Chancery Court. He’s looking to serve all of the citizens of Knox County but on Thursday, Armstrong returned to his home to...
By Steve Hunley Big Turnout for Bud It is no surprise former Knox County Law Director Richard “Bud” Armstrong would draw a big crowd on his home turf. Jack and Joyce Huddleston hosted a meet and greet at the Corryton Community Center in the 8th District last week for...
By Mike Steely Senior Writer steelym@knoxfocus.com “I’m going to do the right thing,” Sheriff Tom Spangler told his volunteers Thursday evening. Hundreds of volunteers gathered at the EXPO Center on Clinton Highway to rally and volunteer to help Tom Spangler be...
By Ray Hill The folks who read this column regularly are some of God’s gentlepeople and highly discerning. That is my opinion, yet I will be positively shocked if a single reader remembers Arthur Wergs Mitchell. One of the most interesting aspects of history to me...
By Steve Williams Bearden High had a 1-2 punch that was too much to handle for Knox County foe Farragut Saturday night in the BlueCross Basketball Championships. Junior post Avery Treadwell’s dominance on the inside with 15 points and 16 rebounds and point...
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