by Mark Nagi | Apr 4, 2016 | Columnist, Nagi, Norman
By Alex Norman The best event in the NCAA is the men’s basketball tournament. For three weeks, the nation is captivated by the established powers and the underdogs, all put in the same 68 team bubble, until one squad reigns supreme. Even with the academic sham that...
by Mike Steely | Apr 3, 2016 | Archived Editions, Archives, Steely, Stories In This Week's Focus:
Drop the beer distance ordinance? Council says ‘Not Yet.’ By Mike Steely steelym@knoxfocus.com It is apparent that the distance between a beer retail store and places like schools, hospitals, churches and mortuaries may someday be changed but a 5-4 vote Tuesday...
by Ralphine Major | Apr 3, 2016 | Columnist, Major, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Ralphine Major You may be one of the Focus readers who has been privileged to hear them sing in one of the more than 175 churches or assisted living facilities over the years. I have always known them as “The TOTS,” an acronym for “The Old Time Singers,”—...
by Ray Hill | Apr 3, 2016 | Hill, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Ray Hill Few men have been as colorful as John Nance Garner of Texas. Garner spent thirty-eight years in Washington, D. C., and the last eight as vice president under Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Yet, Garner shunned the limelight, preferring to make his considerable...
by Mike Steely | Apr 3, 2016 | Steely, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Mikes Steely steelym@knoxfocus.com Knoxville is celebrating 225 years this year and you probably don’t realize that the city and its county have some 111 places on the National Register of Historic Sites. That includes not only historic homes and buildings but also...
by design | Mar 28, 2016 | Columnist, Moore
By Rosie Moore William Shakespeare, that renowned author from long ago, once wrote in his play, Macbeth, “Sleep….knits up the raveled sleeve of care….sore labor’s bath, balm of hurt minds…chief nourisher in life’s feast.” That sentence sums it up for me....
