by Steve Hunley | Jul 26, 2020 | Columnist, Hunley, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Steve Hunley Déjà vu All Over Again There is a move by the Charter Review Committee to once again place a referendum on the ballot to make the law director’s office appointed, rather than elected. That reminds me of the last attempt some ten years ago, which was...
by Steve Hunley | Jul 19, 2020 | Columnist, Hunley, Stories In This Week's Focus:
Clerk’s Loan Needed I don’t think there’s any doubt our county, state, country and world have changed a lot since the advent of the COVID-19 virus. It’s almost impossible to find anyone or anything left untouched by the coronavirus. Charlie Susano, Clerk of...
by Steve Hunley | Jul 12, 2020 | Columnist, Hunley, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Steve Hunley Evetty Satterfield’s Bold Move By the time this is published, I will be surprised if Evetty Satterfield, the Knox County Board of Education member from the First District, is under attack by professional agitators and anarchists. The First...
by Steve Hunley | Jul 5, 2020 | Columnist, Hunley, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Steve Hunley Reviving Gov. Lee’s ESSA Plan? In May of this year, a Nashville judge ruled Governor Bill Lee’s educational savings account legislation, approved by the Tennessee General Assembly, unconstitutional. A collective “hurrah” went up from teachers’ unions,...
by Steve Hunley | Jun 28, 2020 | Columnist, Hunley, The Daily Focus
By Steve Hunley sheriff’s department bonuses Sheriff Tom Spangler advanced his case for giving deputies a $1,500 “bonus” which will cost some $1.6 million of taxpayer money. Mayor Jacobs was dubious about spending money the county doesn’t have and offered a more...
by Steve Hunley | Jun 21, 2020 | Columnist, Hunley, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Steve Hunley American Insurrection For the first time since the American Civil War, at least as far as I know, armed secessionists have occupied American soil and territory while legal and legitimate authorities simply stand by and gawk. The Capitol Hill...