by design | Jan 18, 2016 | Columnist, Ferguson
By Dr. Jim Ferguson I discovered the error of my ways at Sunday lunch. This has happened before. For many years my family and various friends met weekly at Greaty Cuckoo’s home right after the minister’s sermon ended. We adults gathered around the big dining room...
by Ralphine Major | Jan 18, 2016 | Columnist, Major
By Ralphine Major It seemed like a coincidence. I heard in the news the resignation of Knox County Schools Superintendent Jim McIntyre just as I had sent another e-mail message to Ashley’s father. Focus readers met 9-year-old Ashley Boruff in “Young Leader Emerges in...
by Mark Nagi | Jan 18, 2016 | Columnist, Nagi, Norman
By Alex Norman Tennessee’s defense was good, but not great in 2015, ranking 36th nationwide. But to get to the next level, head coach Butch Jones decided a change was needed. Exit defensive coordinator John Jancek, and enter Bob Shoop, who spent the past two years...
by Steve Hunley | Jan 17, 2016 | Archives, Columnist, Hunley
By Steve Hunley Jennifer Owen, candidate for the Knox County Board of Education in the Second District, has officially filed a complaint with the Internal Revenue Service. Mrs. Owen’s complaint involves an email sent by J. Laurens Tullock, President of the...
by Mike Steely | Jan 17, 2016 | Archives, Columnist, Steely, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Mike Steely steelym@knoxfocus.com Some people call a section along Washington Avenue the “Barber Block” for the large number of homes there designed by noted architect George Barber. The name is certainly appropriate but of all the Barber Homes in that...
by Steve Williams | Jan 17, 2016 | Archives, Columnist, Stories In This Week's Focus:, Williams
By Steve Williams I am proud of the hometown I grew up in and the high school I graduated from for a unique reason, and with this being Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, there’s no better time to express these feelings. Clinton High was the first state-supported public...
