by Steve Hunley | Apr 11, 2021 | Columnist, Hunley, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Steve Hunley Some Time Republican Former Knoxville mayor Victor Ashe has openly called for a primary challenger to oppose County Commissioner Kyle Ward. As I recall, Ward defeated a well-heeled primary challenger in Scott Broyles. In fact, Broyles was the choice of...
by Steve Hunley | Apr 4, 2021 | Columnist, Hunley, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Steve Hunley Board of Health Follies The Knox County Commission has finally done exactly what everybody expected it to do; i.e. make the county’s Board of Health an advisory body. It places responsibility squarely upon the shoulders of county health director Martha...
by Steve Hunley | Mar 28, 2021 | Columnist, Hunley, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Steve Hunley Georgiana Vines, the whirling dervish of a political columnist for the Knoxville News-Sentinel, let her political slip show last week. Georgiana wrote a lengthy column detailing the lack of bipartisanship of Tennessee’s two U. S. senators, Marsha...
by Steve Hunley | Mar 14, 2021 | Columnist, Hunley, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Steve Hunley Local Democrats were quick to squall over the election of Daniel Herrera as chairman of the Knox County Republican Party. When was the last time the Knox County Democratic Party elected a young Hispanic as the local leader of their own party? It was...
by Steve Hunley | Mar 7, 2021 | Columnist, Hunley, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Steve Hunley Knoxville’s Shame I have a lot of respect and admiration for Bob Booker who is a former state representative, city councilman, the former executive director of the Beck Cultural Center and an able historian. Robert Booker also writes a column...
by Steve Hunley | Feb 28, 2021 | Columnist, Hunley, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Steve Hunley These days we hear an awful lot about “social justice.” The recent shootings of three teenagers inside the City of Knoxville illustrate the difference between action and real commitment and mere symbolism and virtue signaling. Stanley Freeman Jr.,...
