by Steve Hunley | May 6, 2018 | Columnist, Hunley, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Steve Hunley “Collectively, we raise our voice and call for our public officials to hear their constituents,” Reverend Meredith Loftis cried at the Central United Methodist Church. The estimated 2,000 people gathered were some of Knoxville Mayor Madeline Rogero’s...
by Steve Hunley | Apr 29, 2018 | Columnist, Hunley, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Steve Hunley The Knox County Board of Education will meet tonight to consider the budget recommended by the superintendent. The superintendent and his staff have reconfigured the budget after the board delayed the vote in the hope of “finding” more money and...
by Steve Hunley | Apr 22, 2018 | Columnist, Hunley, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Steve Hunley Once again the State of Tennessee has been embarrassed by the failure of TNReady. Taxpayers spend $30 million annually to fund TNReady, which is supposed to help gauge the progress of students. It seems every year there is a problem with the...
by Steve Hunley | Apr 15, 2018 | Columnist, Hunley, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Steve Hunley Lord have mercy! To read the editorial penned by Buzz Thomas in the Knoxville New Sentinel a week and a half ago, one would think the world as we know it was coming to an end. Fortunately, it’s more of a case of Chicken Little and “The sky is falling!...
by Steve Hunley | Apr 8, 2018 | Columnist, Hunley, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Steve Hunley The ethics complaint filed by perennial candidate Bo Bennett against Knox County Commissioners Charles Busler and Bob Thomas has gone from a circus sideshow to an outrageous witch-hunt. Bennett’s complaint was based upon little more than a news story...
by Steve Hunley | Apr 2, 2018 | Columnist, Hunley, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Steve Hunley There are a great many hard-working deputies in the Knox County Sheriff’s Department. Yet the recent controversy between the Knox County Pension Board and Knox County Law Director Richard “Bud” Armstrong illustrates an arrogant sense of entitlement and...