by Steve Hunley | Apr 26, 2015 | Archives, Columnist, Hunley
By Steve Hunley This week has been one of enlightenment in terms of the tactics used by the Broad Academy trainees to obtain what they want and the means they are willing to use to get it. Knox County Schools Superintendent and Broad Academy graduate Dr. Jim McIntyre,...
by Steve Hunley | Apr 19, 2015 | Archives, Columnist, Hunley
By Steve Hunley School Board members deserve credit for approving Gibbs Middle There’s an old adage many of us learned from our grandparents: “It’s never too late to do the right thing.” Last Monday night at the Knox County Board of Education’s special-called...
by Steve Hunley | Apr 12, 2015 | Archives, Columnist, Hunley
By Steve Hunley If you build it, they will come. Those words spoken about a baseball park carved out of an Iowa cornfield have recently taken on new relevance in the minds and hearts of two communities located in opposite ends of Knox County. People in Hardin Valley...
by Steve Hunley | Apr 5, 2015 | Columnist, Hunley
By Steve Hunley Superintendent of Schools Jim McIntyre has praise heaped upon him by some of the local news media as well as the usual “good government” types for what he boasts are some of his many accomplishments, like his “Leadership Academy.” Boiled down to its...
by Steve Hunley | Mar 29, 2015 | Archives, Columnist, Hunley
By Steve Hunley I’ve always said people think the best tax is one somebody else pays while they derive the benefit. One could use the same logic with several school systems announcing they are filing suit against Governor Bill Haslam, Lieutenant Governor Ron Ramsey,...
by Steve Hunley | Mar 22, 2015 | Archives, Columnist, Hunley
By Steve Hunley Most folks are aware that the Knox County Board of Education has been dithering about whether or not to sue the State of Tennessee, along with the three other big urban counties – – – Shelby, Davidson, and Hamilton. Shelby and...
