by Steve Hunley | May 17, 2020 | Columnist, Hunley, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Steve Hunley Out of the Mouths of Babes… Mike McMillan, East Knox County’s member of the Board of Education, was really impressed by Aaliyah Riddle. Aaliyah Riddle is a graduating senior at Austin – East High School who was critical of the school system’s...
by Steve Hunley | May 10, 2020 | Columnist, Hunley, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Steve Hunley Lest you think otherwise, this column is aptly named for there are all kinds of odd things going on in our community and you ought to know about them! Here we go for this week: Public Banned By Public School System Mike McMillan, East...
by Steve Hunley | May 3, 2020 | Columnist, Hunley, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Steve Hunley The only really bad thing about being a weekly newspaper is preparing an editorial on one topic. Hardly a week goes by that I don’t hear from people wondering why I didn’t write about this or that. There’s so much that happens nationally and locally...
by Steve Hunley | Apr 26, 2020 | Columnist, Hunley, Stories In This Week's Focus:
School System Must Begin to Prepare Now By Steve Hunley Bob Thomas, superintendent of the Knox County School system, was recently interviewed by another media outlet and stated plainly, “We weren’t prepared” for the coronavirus. Nobody was, nor could they be. As I...
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...
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...
