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We Need To Continue To Talk

by Steve Hunley | Apr 5, 2020 | Columnist, Hunley, Stories In This Week's Focus:

By Steve Hunley I don’t know of anyone who isn’t eager to return to his/her former life, yet life after the coronavirus may likely be very different. It will be mighty interesting to see just what kind of conversations our nation will be having in the wake of the...

Mike McMillan Reelected to School Board

by Steve Hunley | Mar 8, 2020 | Columnist, Hunley, Stories In This Week's Focus:

By Steve Hunley Mike McMillan was reelected to the Knox County Board of Education last week to a new four-year term.  McMillan defeated two opponents, Adam Brown and Leon Daugherty, finally winning with more than 57% of the vote.  The remarkable thing about McMillan’s...

Taxpayers paid $25.6 million for the Andrew Johnson Building

by Steve Hunley | Feb 16, 2020 | Columnist, Hunley, Stories In This Week's Focus:

Mayor Jacobs wants to sell it for $6 million By Steve Hunley   What kind of government spends $25.6 million dollars on a building and then tries to sell it for $6 million dollars? Your Knox County government and Knox County School Board is that kind of...

Democrats’ Iowa Debacle

by Steve Hunley | Feb 9, 2020 | Columnist, Hunley, Stories In This Week's Focus:

By Steve Hunley National Democrats went to Iowa, spent $50 million and fall down and go boom!  And for those of you who quibble with my use of the word “debacle”, I’ll have you know that was precisely how one commentator on NPR – – – National...

Harold Wimberly, Jr.

by Steve Hunley | Feb 2, 2020 | Columnist, Hunley, Stories In This Week's Focus:

By Steve Hunley Harold Wimberly, Jr. was a truly unique man, a treasured friend to those lucky enough to have earned his friendship.  Harold Wimberly was a jurist who occupied a bench in Knox County for forty years.  That alone is quite a feat yet there was so much...

Will the Knox County Commission Serve We the People or Special Interests?

by Steve Hunley | Jan 26, 2020 | Columnist, Hunley, Stories In This Week's Focus:

By Steve Hunley This evening the Knox County Commission will  vote on the TVA Tower lease. Another commission vote will be held later on whether to sell the Andrew Johnson Building and move the Knox County School System into the TVA East Tower. County Mayor Glenn...
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