by Steve Hunley | Apr 16, 2017 | Columnist, Hunley, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Steve Hunley All too often, it seems like many of us have lost sight of the purpose of education. When everything else is scraped away, all that remains is getting a job and becoming a productive citizen. The culmination of secondary education is to finish high...
by Steve Hunley | Apr 10, 2017 | Columnist, Hunley, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Steve Hunley The United States of America is undergoing a transformation that ought to concern folks. Today there are two very different and distinct Americas. Resistance to the federal government of the United States is prevalent in our society today, led by the...
by Steve Hunley | Apr 2, 2017 | Columnist, Hunley, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Steve Hunley Say it ain’t so. Republicans raising taxes? Tennessee’s Republican governor, Republican-controlled state senate and Republican-controlled house of representatives are moving with lightning speed to raise taxes on gasoline and diesel fuel. As it stands...
by Steve Hunley | Mar 26, 2017 | Columnist, Hunley, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Steve Hunley After eight long years of Jim McIntyre as superintendent of Knox County Schools, the people of Knox County were ready for something very different. The board of education appointed Buzz Thomas to serve as the interim superintendent and one could begin...
by Steve Hunley | Mar 12, 2017 | Columnist, Hunley, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Steve Hunley Earl Hoffmeister passed away last week at 90. Many readers likely knew Earl Hoffmeister personally, as did I. I was one of those who was actually taught by Hoffmeister. Quite a few years ago, I was a student in Earl Hoffmeister’s mechanical...
by Steve Hunley | Mar 5, 2017 | Columnist, Hunley, Stories In This Week's Focus:
Diesel fuel tax would increase 70% By Steve Hunley As you’ve read here many times, the Knoxville News Sentinel is utterly predictable. The News Sentinel has never seen a new tax or an existing tax increase that they didn’t like. So, the Sentinel surprised no one when...
