by Jedidiah McKeehan | Sep 23, 2019 | Columnist, McKeehan
By Jedidiah McKeehan Occasionally when individuals come see me who are going through the divorce process, they will say something like, “I need to get him to agree to leave me on his medical insurance,” or, “We have agreed that he will stay on my medical insurance for...
by Steve Hunley | Sep 22, 2019 | Columnist, Hunley, The Daily Focus
By Steve Hunley Last week in the Publisher’s Position The Knoxville Focus examined whether Knoxville is making the mistakes that Nashville has already made. We received a great deal of positive feedback at The Focus from as close as Farragut and as far away as...
by Steve Hunley | Sep 22, 2019 | Columnist, Hunley, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Steve Hunley For those folks that are paying attention, you have likely heard about the proposed sale of the Andrew Johnson Building. Presently, the AJ houses most of the administrative staff of the Knox County School system. For some time now, there has been talk...
by Ray Hill | Sep 22, 2019 | Columnist, Hill, Ray Hill's Archives, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Ray Hill Kenneth D. McKellar, Tennessee’s senior United States senator, had won a thumping renomination inside the Democratic primary, beating Congressman Finis Garrett, the Minority Leader of the U. S. House of Representatives. Tennessee Republicans...
by Ralphine Major | Sep 16, 2019 | Columnist, Major
By Ralphine Major The snapshot surfaced as I combed through a stack of old photos. It was made with my Kodak Instamatic during the seventies, a few years before I upgraded to a 35-millimeter camera. My brother and I were students at The University of Tennessee (UT)...
by Joe Rector | Sep 16, 2019 | Columnist, Rector
By Joe Rector Try to recall the countless hours involved in training small children to do certain things. Remember how difficult it was to have a child simply sit down and complete his business on the toilet? When those little ones accomplished such a feat, we were...
