by design | Oct 10, 2017 | The Daily Focus
UT’s Howard H. Baker Jr. Center for Public Policy will host three gubernatorial candidates this month. “We have invited all of the 2018 Tennessee Gubernatorial Candidates to speak on leading Tennessee forward,” said Katie Cahill, associate director of the Baker...
by design | Oct 9, 2017 | Public Notice
Foreclosure notices NOTICE OF SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE’S SALE WHEREAS, default has occurred in the performance of the covenants, terms and conditions of a Deed of Trust dated August 20, 2004, executed by AMANDA C. BURGESS, JASON P. BURGESS, conveying...
by Jedidiah McKeehan | Oct 9, 2017 | Columnist, McKeehan
By Jedediah McKeehan Say that you are walking out to your car after a trip to the store and you see someone breaking in to your car, or maybe you’re walking down the street and someone runs by and snatches your purse. What can you do to recover or protect your...
by Joe Rector | Oct 9, 2017 | Columnist, Rector
By Joe Rector Nellie West passed away Sunday, October 1, 2017. No, most folks won’t know who she was, but her family certainly will. The following day, Tom Petty, rock legend, died after suffering full cardiac arrest. Probably, millions knew of him. Which death is...
by Steve Williams | Oct 9, 2017 | Columnist, Williams
By Steve Williams The University of Tennessee football program has come off the track. The 41-0 loss to Georgia in a dressed up Neyland Stadium was just the latest shake and rattle before the derailment. The Volunteer express under Butch Jones has been swerving for...
by design | Oct 9, 2017 | Columnist, Ferguson
By Dr. Jim Ferguson Sometimes the best explanation for the otherwise inexplicable is evil. But then you’d have to believe that there is such a thing as evil. Is there a force in the world that opposes good? For most of man’s history the notion that there were opposing...
by design | Oct 9, 2017 | The Daily Focus
By Steve Williams Farragut’s 19-game football win streak was snapped in a 42-34 loss at Kingsport Dobyns-Bennett Friday night. The Admirals are now 7-1 overall and 3-1 in Region 1-6A. Three other local teams also have only one loss. Austin-East, Fulton and The...
by design | Oct 8, 2017 | Archived Editions, Archives, Stories In This Week's Focus:
Benches for Bravery By Mike Steely steelym@knoxfocus.com If you’ve been to the East Tennessee Veterans Cemetery on Governor John Sevier Pike over the past few years you may have noticed there are few places to sit town. For some time one long bench was located near...
by design | Oct 8, 2017 | Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Mike Steely steelym@knoxfocus.com “The Wall That Heals” is a smaller version of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C., and was displayed in Knoxville starting Thursday. The wall was open 24 hours a day and lit at night until yesterday. The 250-foot long...
by Ray Hill | Oct 8, 2017 | Columnist, Hill, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Ray Hill Colonel Luke Lea, away in Europe during the First World War, had never gotten along with John Knight Shields when they were colleagues in the United States Senate. Lea’s newspaper, the Nashville Tennessean sided with Shields’ opponent, Governor Tom Rye in...
