by Steve Hunley | Sep 15, 2019 | Columnist, Hunley, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Steve Hunley Across America the Universities that teach urban design and planning have a mantra that preaches high density, walkability, bike lanes, and mass transit. Single family homes and automobiles have been designated as the enemy. There are many buzzwords to...
by Steve Hunley | Sep 8, 2019 | Columnist, Hunley, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Steve Hunley It will likely be easy for some Knoxville residents to overlook or pay little attention to the various races for City Council on the November ballot, especially with a hotly contested mayor’s race in the offing. Charles Thomas and Charles Al-Bawi will...
by Steve Hunley | Sep 2, 2019 | Columnist, Hunley, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Steve Hunley The results of the City of Knoxville election presents a clear choice for voters. The two top vote-getters in the mayoral primary election were businessman Eddie Mannis and former Board of Education member Indya Kincannon. Mannis, a first-time...
by Steve Hunley | Aug 25, 2019 | Columnist, Hunley, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Steve Hunley The biggest issue in the coming City of Knoxville elections is, without a doubt, Recode. Knoxville’s longest serving mayor, Victor Ashe, has appropriately termed it a massive “rezoning” package and indeed it does affect virtually every property within...
by Steve Hunley | Aug 25, 2019 | Columnist, Hunley, The Daily Focus
It has come to my attention, through social and other media, that in last week’s Publisher’s Position I incorrectly identified 2019 city council candidate Amelia Parker as having dropped the “F bomb” while addressing city council about an issue at a council meeting in...
by Steve Hunley | Aug 18, 2019 | Columnist, Hunley, Stories In This Week's Focus:
They Are on the Ballot By Steve Hunley Whether you believe it or not, there is a socialist movement in Knoxville; in fact, there is a ticket of socialist candidates running for city council. They refer to it as the “City Council Movement” without referring to...
