by Steve Hunley | Aug 11, 2019 | Columnist, Hunley, Stories In This Week's Focus:
ROAD BLOCKED Parking reduced at New Harvest early voting location By Steve Hunley, Publisher publisher@knoxfocus.com It is a shame how few people vote in City of Knoxville elections. That trend has been spiraling steadily downward in recent years. Considering that,...
by Steve Hunley | Aug 11, 2019 | Columnist, Hunley, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Steve Hunley I was trying to remember which presidential candidate promised “a chicken in every pot” and checked with our residential historian and my memory was correct, it was Herbert Hoover. Hoover, enjoying the “Republican prosperity” of the 1920s, won a huge...
by Steve Hunley | Aug 4, 2019 | Columnist, Hunley, The Daily Focus
Have we found the real reason for Recode? By Steve Hunley, Publisher publisher@knoxfocus.com Have we found the real reason for Recode? Last week we concluded The Knoxville Focus Publisher’s Position with a question, “What is the real reason for Recode?” We also asked...
by Steve Hunley | Aug 4, 2019 | Columnist, Hunley, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Steve Hunley As the City of Knoxville government considers the “Recode” proposal, I’ve heard that some officials are insisting Recode will not cause taxes to increase. That just cannot be true. While Recode has undergone more permutations than Frankenstein’s...
by Steve Hunley | Jul 28, 2019 | Columnist, Hunley, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Steve Hunley Recode Knoxville will be voted on Tuesday, July 30 at 6:00 p.m. in the Main Assembly Room of the City-County Building. This will be the second and final vote on the text of Recode which is now at 410 pages in Recode Draft 5.5. Tomorrow’s meeting will...
by Steve Hunley | Jul 21, 2019 | Columnist, Hunley, Stories In This Week's Focus:
And Madeline’s Meltdown By Steve Hunley The first of two votes on the zoning and code process upheaval known as Recode in Knoxville City Council has happened. Recode was approved by council by a vote of 7 to 2 (Voting for Recode were: Stair, Saunders, McKenzie, Rider,...
