By Steve Hunley City mayor raises taxes, cuts services After having given police officers a well-deserved raise and asking the city council to inflict the largest property tax increase in Knoxville’s history, the first thing Mayor Indya Kincannon has done is...
By Mike Steely Senior Writer steelym@knoxfocus.com Back in January the Knoxville City Council met and voted to expand the East Tennessee Veterans Memorial display in World’s Fair Park. Last Tuesday morning the Vietnam Veterans of America unveiled a marble monument...
By Ray Hill Congressman Clifford Davis was the last vestige of the old Crump machine still holding federal office in 1963. Davis had been in Congress since 1940 when he had won a special election to succeed Walter Chandler who had become mayor of Memphis. Davis was...
By Ken Lay The Knox County Board of Education’s regular session meeting lasted less than an hour late Wednesday afternoon at the Summer Place as all items on the agenda passed with little or no discussion. Following the 55-minute meeting, board members and those in...
By Steve Williams Mike Mullins’ retirement was a short one. The personable and hard-working Mullins is back at it as Hardin Valley Academy’s new athletic director. He had been the AD at Oak Ridge High School for 15 years until announcing his retirement on Dec. 3....
Mayor Jacobs hosts Get Out The Vote BBQ By Jamie Schnell schnellj@knoxfocus.com With early voting winding down, Knox County Mayor Glenn Jacobs hosted voters to a Get Out The Vote BBQ Friday evening held at The Barn in Powell with live music by Grassically Trained, and...
By Steve Hunley Double Standards? During the May Republican primary, Erik Wiatr was running the campaign of Steve Weiner against Commissioner Larsen Jay. Weiner, who has all the personality of a dead pet rock, castigated Jay in mailers for having voted in the...
By Ray Hill Only two weeks remained before Tennesseans trooped to the polls to cast their ballots in the 1948 election. Voters had an unusually large number of choices in the presidential race; Democrat Harry Truman, Republican Thomas E. Dewey, States’ Rights...
By Ken Lay It was a little late but the Leadership Knoxville Class of 2010 finally celebrated its 10-year reunion late Thursday afternoon at the Knoxville Museum of Art. The event was originally scheduled for the summer of 2020 at Cherokee Country Club. The...
By Bill Howard One would have to live under that proverbial rock to not know how widespread is the scourge of mental illness in America. Bad enough before the pandemic, it seems that the last two years have brought almost daily reports of the nation’s frightening...
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