by Mike Steely | Mar 27, 2016 | Steely, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Mike Steely steelym@knoxfocus.com It has been said that if it wasn’t for Tennessee there would be no Texas. That saying refers to the influx of people from our state to what was then the northern territory of Mexico and the number of those people who promoted and...
by Mike Steely | Mar 27, 2016 | Steely, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Mike Steely steelym@knoxfocus.com The city’s two-year pilot project to allow and regulate food trucks is on the way to becoming an official ordinance and, overall, the trial program has been very successful. But the Community Forum has some hard questions about...
by Ray Hill | Mar 27, 2016 | Columnist, Hill, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Ray Hill Tennessee, like every other state in the union, had been devastated by the Great Depression. The suffering in Tennessee was accentuated by the fact almost seven million dollars in state money had been lost when Caldwell and Company, one of the largest...
by Mike Steely | Mar 27, 2016 | Steely, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Mike Steely steelym@knoxfocus.com Mike Brown is known as being the “bulldog” of the Knox County Commission due to his eight years of speaking his mind as commissioner. His words are often colored with unique, descriptive and folksy phrasing that gets his point...
by Steve Williams | Mar 27, 2016 | Stories In This Week's Focus:, Williams
By Steve Williams Charlie Byrd introduced his sons to the game of baseball years ago. He coached them and watched them play in many games. But what his eyes saw on a beautiful early spring afternoon last week was a first. Matt and Jonathan “Turtle” Byrd were on...
by design | Mar 21, 2016 | Columnist, Ferguson
By Dr. Jim Ferguson A simple definition of a paradox is a contradiction. I’ve been thinking about this during what is paradoxically called Spring Break. It may be a break for students and perhaps for teachers and parents, but it is not a break for these grandparents....
